Windows 11 screenshots appear to have leaked - gordonnothad86

Screenshots posted online of what may exist Windows 11 suggest that the spick-and-span operating scheme will look similar to the never-released Windows 10X.

The screenshots, posted to the Chinese Baidu site, feature characteristics of Windows 10X, including the gray desktop and the central start menu. Windows 10X leaked back in January (PCWorld tried it). Microsoft decided to shelve Windows 10X later in 2021, and the company said that it planned to merge several features into Windows.

PCWorld has not been able to confirm yet whether the screenshots are licit, though we hope to do so soon. The Verge, which posted the screenshots earliest, reported that they had confirmed the images as legitimate.

If true, however, this is the original sign that Windows 11 is indeed the brand of the next generation of Windows, as Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella indicated. One of the screenshots posted to Baidu indicates that the build is "Windows 11 In favour of," and frame 21996.1. Reported to Microsoft's Windows Insider site, the up-to-the-minute Windows 10 build is translation 19043.1052.

windows 11 baidu 2 — Another screenshot of what may be Windows 11, posted to Baidu.

The screenshots also point that Windows 11 appears to personify hard influenced aside Windows 10X, the bare-down version of Windows that Microsoft originally intended to compete with Chromebooks. The centered taskbar was a feature of Windows 10X, as was the simple Start carte that popped outgoing of it. Microsoft appears to take over cooked out with the flamboyant Live Tiles of the Windows 10 generation, to a fault.

Microsoft has regular a "What's Next for Windows" press event for June 24 at 11 a.m. ET, another hint that Windows 11 may follow nut route.

Correction: Microsoft will keep off its Windows case on June 24.

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As PCWorld's senior editor, Chump focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among strange beatniks. He has once in writing for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.