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By Yasin Ansari.

Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech recently in Chicago that Windows 10 would be the ‘last version’ of the dominant desktop software.


Microsoft confirmed that it would update Windows in future in an “ongoing manner” and there will be no new stand-alone version. The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10. Meanwhile, Microsoft has developed the HoloLens augmented reality system for use with Windows 10.

Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner who monitors Microsoft categorically said, “There will be no Windows 11.”

He said Microsoft had in the past deliberately avoided using the name “Windows 9” and instead chose Windows 10 as a way to signify a break with a past which involved successive stand-alone versions of the operating system.

However, he said, working in that way had created many problems for Microsoft and its customers. “Every three years or so Microsoft would sit down and create ‘the next great OS’,” Kleynhans explained.

Microsoft also had to spend a huge amount of money and marketing muscle to convince people that they needed this new version and that it was better than anything that had come before, he further explained.

Talking to BBC, Kleynhans informed that the most of the revenue generated by Windows for Microsoft came from sales of new PCs and this was unlikely to be affected by the change. Indeed, we are about to see the opposite, with the speed of Windows updates shifting into high gear.