But you'll also be the first to play around with new features inbound for the next incarnation of Windows. (Remember the days when we were told Windows 10 would be the last version of the OS by Microsoft, by the way?).Īs we've already noted, it's worth bearing in mind that with the Canary Channel, you'll likely be exposed to some of the worst bugs going. Even the HDR feature is shown as something innovative when it is already present, but broken according to users.

And also, some of the new features W11 will offer are already present on Windows 10. Whatever the OS ends up being named - and Windows 12 seems an obvious choice - it'll theoretically pitch up in 2024. To me it sounds more like a downgrade from what Windows 10 is. We've already seen leaks suggesting that Windows 12 might be the name for Microsoft's next version of its desktop OS, namely Intel documentation for Meteor Lake CPUs (next-gen models) which listed Windows 12 under supported operating systems. As to the exact nature of the Canary Channel, this is where Windows Central comes in, specifically Zac Bowden who has some pretty reliable sources at Microsoft.īowden tells us that people 'familiar with Microsoft's plans' say this new scheme of two-track development for Windows is splitting work into one path for Windows 11 (Dev) and the other for the next version of Windows (Canary).

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