Back in June this year, Huawei officially released the HarmonyOS Next Beta version. HarmonyOS Next will be the upgraded version of the currently available HarmonyOS. It is said that the stable version of HarmonyOS Next will be rolled out in Q4 2024.
Reportedly Huawei is planning to make HarmonyOS Next a fully independent operating system. As per a report by TechSpot, Yu Chengdong, head of company’s consumer business group, the PCs currently being sold by Huawei will be the last to feature Microsoft Western OS. The next batch of Huawei computers will include HarmonyOS Next, the upcoming iteration of the operating system that is expected to debut by the end of this year.
It is said that HarmonyOS Next is being shaped as a microkernel-based system with no traces of AOSP code or residual Android compatibility. This reshaped OS will support its own format of native apps which according to the project page includes a mix of JavaScript, TypeScript, and an optimized design to speed up the execution of JS code.
However, it is also said that HarmonyOS Next lacks support from game developers, and few apps available for the platform are either in demo form or missing essential features. The company has already announced the official HarmonyOS NEXT upgrade plan for its devices alongside the rollout timeline.
