Microsoft officials said in a press briefing last week that the company's plan is to continue to update Windows 11 annually and there's nothing like an every-three-year major release planned at this time. Aaron Woodman, vice president of Windows Marketing, told us: "I've not heard anyone internally saying we are on a three-year cadence. Our intention is to continue with annual updates to Windows 11."My two cents: I believe Microsoft may well be moving to an every-three-year cadence for major updates with the next due in 2024, as Windows Central first reported. But the plan may not be set in stone yet, which gives Woodman a lot of wiggle room in his answer. As to whether something called "Windows 12" will come in 2024, I think it's just a branding question and dependent on what Apple is doing at the time as much as anything else.