Satya Nadella teases major updates coming soon to Windows during Build 2021 keynote
Microsoft has remained incredibly tight-lipped around its plans for Windows this year. We've known for some time that the company plans to ship a significant UX overhaul for Windows this fall under the codename Sun Valley, and that Microsoft is planning to hold a dedicated Windows event sometime in the next few weeks to talk about it.
Because of this, the company has opted to not talk much about Windows at Build 2021, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella from teasing that something big is in the works during his opening keynote, calling the project "one of the most significant updates to Windows [in] the past decade."
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