I don't get why this is such a revelation. Windows 11 is a modified and reskinned Windows 10, which is a modified and reskinned Windows 8, which is a modified and reskinned Windows 7 which is a modified and reskinned Windows Vista which is a modified and reskinned Windows XP.

This isn't news, if you look through any beta release of Windows you'll know that they all start off looking identical to their predecessors, mainly because they share a lot of code.

Until Microsoft actually starts breaking backward compatibility on a large scale, this is by definition true.

This doesn't make any sense you don't need to break compatibility in order for Windows to not be Windows 10 anymore. Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds? I can still run Visual Basic 6 on Windows 11... But for some reason by your logic that means that it's still Windows 10? Which is still Windows 8.1 which is still Windows 8 which is still Windows 7 which is still Windows Vista which is still Windows XP which is still Windows me and I could just keep going every Windows is every Windows just reskinned right? Does it have to not be NT anymore for it to not be Windows 10 anymore?

Yes.

Windows 10 of today is just a reskinned Windows 10 from when it launched. This statement bears no meaning considering the considerable changes over time that happened.

Really?? That's...depressing...

Why?