Windows 12 is a project that has been in development within Microsoft for some time. Panos Panay himself confirmed at the time that Microsoft’s next operating system I wanted to be smart, and it is clear that cloud computing will also play an important role in this regard. Thanks to the trickle of rumors and supposed leaks that have been happening in recent months, we have a lot of information about this operating system, but today I want to focus on a very important topic that we have not touched on yet, that is, possible requirements for Windows 12.

What requirements might Windows 12 have? To answer this question, it is necessary to review the moves that Microsoft has been making in recent years. With each new Windows release, Microsoft didn’t always increase the minimum requirements to use it, and when they did, the difference wasn’t drastic in most cases. A good example is the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 10, which was not at all traumatic in terms of requirements, since both operating systems had practically the same minimum requirements.

However, With the advent of Windows 11, Microsoft completely changed its strategy and not only did it double the amount of RAM required (from 2GB to 4GB) compared to Windows 10, but it also increased GPU and storage requirements and significantly reduced the number of supported processors, which happened. very powerful and perfectly functional CPU “obsolete”.

So what happens to the Windows 12 requirements? We still have nothing confirmed, but the first information I had access to indicate that their requirements will be the same or very similar, to those of Windows 11. This means that if we manage to install the mentioned operating system, we will not have problems moving to the next version of Windows, at least in theory, because, as I said at the beginning, we still do not have official information.

From a personal point of view, it is true that I have doubts about the requirements of Windows 12 because, as I told you then, the fact that we are talking about smart operating system He should have hardware level costs, and that should be important. However, it is possible that Microsoft applies this intelligent layer through cloud computing, or that it offers a mode with AI acceleration in hardware and another through software.

There are still a lot of unknowns, and for this reason I do not dare to accurately estimate the possible requirements of Windows 12. However, I think that at the level of RAM and storage capacity, it is likely that they will end up being very similar to those of Windows 11. I am also quite confident that Microsoft with this operating system taught, and I think that’s why will try not to run Windows 12 requirements at the hardware level.