Microsoft confirms Windows 10X’s demise, quickly teases ‘significant update’ to Windows 10
Microsoft last week admitted that it would not, after all, launch Windows 10X — the concept OS it first touted in 2019 and months later morphed into a competitor to Chrome OS.
The admission confirmed a report earlier in the month by Petri.com, which cited “people familiar with the company’s plans” to claim that 10X “will likely never arrive.”
That report nailed it, Microsoft then confirmed.
“Instead of bringing a product called Windows 10X to market in 2021 like we originally intended, we are leveraging learnings from our journey thus far and accelerating the integration of key foundational 10X technology into other parts of Windows and products at the company,” John Cable, the executive who leads the Windows servicing and delivery group, wrote in a May 18 post to a company blog.