Microsoft: Hire the maker of this Windows 12 concept video immediately

Windows 11 has not gone down well with the computing public for one reason or another – from system requirements, through to bewildering interface changes (steps backward in places), ad pushing, and other niggles besides – and we’ve just caught a glimpse of what we could have had instead.

Well, kind of – if Microsoft had sat down and properly thought out making a desktop operating system which is clean and streamlined, free of bloat and, yes, dare we say it, with AI pushed more to the side.

BetaNews spotted that a well-known concept creator, AR 4789 on YouTube, put together a video clip showing off a mock-up of a fictional Windows 12.1. (It’s not Windows 12, as AR 4789 already did a concept for that, so this is a refinement on that previous take).

And a seriously impressive concept clip it is – watch the video yourself above, it’s …