Little by little, but steadily, Microsoft continues to bring new features to Windows 11. We understand this in the context of the struggle to get Windows 10 users to move to Windows 11, although it is true that even in this context we found that Redmond users had to back off their plans. we told you a few weeks ago, we announce that Copilot will finally be present in Windows 10. And we are talking about a volume of users that is too large to give up in its plans to expand the use of artificial intelligence.

If we look at the StatCounter data, we can see that at the end of October, Windows 10 remained the most used version of Windows, with a staggering 69.31%compared to the growing but still relatively low 26.17% of Windows 11. Obviously, we can only theorize about this at this point, but there are more and more signs that Windows 12 will be announced and launched next year, possibly late in the second quarter and early in the fourth.

So it seems likely that many users who are still staying on Windows 10 voluntarily (that is, not those who were unable to upgrade because their current computers do not meet the minimum Windows 11 requirements) decided to skip the current generation, waiting for her successor to re-ratify the long-established and proven theory of “one good, one bad”. If my theorized dates for when Windows 12 will launch are confirmed, there will still be one year of support for Windows 10, which is scheduled to end its life cycle, at least for now, on October 14, 2025.

Be that as it may, those from Redmond continue to try it with the current generation and in this sense we know today Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 power saving mode for desktop computers. At the moment, this feature has been released in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26002 on the Canary channel, as we can read in the entry dedicated to this build on one of Microsoft’s official blogs.

Although power saving features have always been associated with portable devices, mainly to extend the autonomy provided by their batteries, the truth is that Bringing this feature to the desktop also feels like a big success to me., as it also has the more than obvious application of reducing PC power consumption, which is desirable on many occasions and for many reasons. So much so that now, seen with a little perspective, it’s even surprising that it didn’t happen sooner.

At the moment, there are no scheduled dates for the arrival of this new feature in the stable version of Windows 11, and since it currently debuted in the Canary Islands, It seems likely that it will be necessary to wait a little longer. Until Windows 12 arrives? Not that much I guess, though maybe not too far from his official announcement.