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Freedows OS was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 January 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Microsoft Windows on 27 January 2013. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Flying Windows was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 August 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Microsoft Windows. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Semi-protected edit request on 14 June 2021

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The Microsoft Windows#Platform support section has a self citation to Wikipedia. Please remove it. The section has otherwise no citations. --93.44.108.28 (talk) 14:48, 14 June 2021 (UTC) 93.44.108.28 (talk) 14:48, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done Run n Fly (talk) 16:02, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Windows 11 will be announced June 24th 2021 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/windows-11-launch-is-set-for-microsoft-s-june-24-event-here-is-everything-we-know-1811885-2021-06-07 71.169.166.208 (talk) 20:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: As it is stated in the article. It is expected that Microsoft will announce Windows 11. However this is not confirmed / guaranteed and will not be until the event. Please see WP:CRYSTAL - Try to avoid speculation, Thanks. Terasail ^[✉️] 00:40, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is the kernel really hybrid?

The FAQ says (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq#does-wsl-2-use-hyper-v--will-it-be-available-on-windows-10-home-_):

The newest version of WSL uses Hyper-V architecture to enable its virtualization. This architecture will be available in the 'Virtual Machine Platform' optional component. This optional component will be available on all SKUs. You can expect to see more details about this experience soon as we get closer to the WSL 2 release.

Additionally, the related items in the FAQ discussed virtualisation issues. - 49.147.235.23 (talk) 10:53, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]