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With Windows 12, Microsoft is making significant changes, introducing a number of AI-powered features. We do not know precisely how the company intends to implement AI in Windows. Nevertheless, you can anticipate OpenAI-powered recommendations or alerts in a variety of applications, including Microsoft Photos, Clock, and Mail & Calendar.

Naturally, Microsoft doesn't want to wait for the first round of AI features in Windows 12, so some "AI" features might show up in Windows 11 in the coming months. Windows' smarter camera and microphone features are included in this. Microsoft, for instance, employs AI to automatically correct eye brightness, blur the background, and more. Similarly, Windows could improve the clarity of your primary voice by filtering out background noise.

Windows 12 possible features

As with any big OS update, there will surely be countless minor updates and changes under the hood. This should translate to things like better overall performance, new icons and animations, and additional settings you can tweak.

A cleaner-looking desktop and taskbar setup
A redesigned Start menu with quick access to all features (until then, you can use one of the best Windows 11 free Start menu replacement apps)

You can see it has a floating taskbar dock at the bottom, a floating search bar at the top, and various other icons on either corner of the screen. The taskbar is only a little different from the existing one we've grown familiar with over the years because it's just slightly hovering over the bottom of the screen. The search bar, however, has never existed at the top like that, and definitely not entirely detached from the taskbar.

Artificial Intelligence
With Microsoft's planned $10B investment in OpenAI, which follows its previous $1B investment, it's beginning to sound more realistic that the company will use some form of artificial intelligence in their operating system.

No More Control Panel
We also expect a further shift (possibly a full withdrawal) away from the Control Panel in favor of Settings. Settings was introduced back in Windows 8 and was intended to replace the Control Panel, but the utility is still available today.

If Windows 12 gets rid of Control Panel entirely, all the Control Panel applets might be moved into Settings. We've already seen this start to happen, like with Windows Update, which hasn't been available through Control Panel since Windows 8.

Animated Wallpapers
Our phones can use animated wallpapers, but Windows has been stuck with static images forever. This is already possible through third-party apps like Desktop Live Wallpapers, but it'd be great for the ability to add live wallpapers to be built right in to Windows.

Windows 12 System Requirements
To install Windows 12, your computer must meet the minimum system requirements. It's likely that these requirements will be similar to, or the same as, the minimum system requirements for Windows 11.

We expect something like this, where your computer must have at least the following in order for it to be compatible with Windows 12:

8 GB of RAM
64 GB of storage
64-bit processor
1 GHz CPU clock speed
An internet connection and a Microsoft account (for the initial setup)