From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11
On Thu, 6/25/2026 5:51 PM, Alan K. wrote:
On 6/25/26 6:00 PM, John Smith wrote:
The next annual update for Windows 11 is coming soon and is already
available to Windows Insiders! Windows 11, version 26H2 continues
Microsoft's focus on delivering a predictable, low-disruption update
experience for Organisations and IT professionals.
For devices already running recent versions of Windows 11, this release
should be easy to install. It builds on the same platform and servicing
approach introduced in prior releases, while continuing to improve how
updates are delivered, tested, and deployed.
<https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/get-ready-for-windows-11-version-26h2/4529367>
Other good articles to read:
<https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/windows/blog/windows-itpro-blog>
The last thing I heard was it was just for AMD chips.?-a-a It was some chatter here on NGs.
I googled it, I read an article, I was less informed than when I started.
The article, for example, does NOT say the Qualcomm machines are on their
own stream. The DGX Soark needs a load for the factory. Maybe these will
be numbered as 26H1. Maybe I have to now check Wikipedia, to see if the
article there is written in any more clear a fashion than the article
I just read. And Nope, the Wiki has not been updated, still question marks
and no lead-in paragraph.
I think it would be pretty decent, human even, for Hanselman to write
an article with a diagram in it for the END USERS, like this
25H2 ---> <place release number here>
26H1arm ---> <place release number here>
Since they seem to be slipping into Enablement Mode for this
one, the only real issue is if you want an Install/Repair DVD
for your steed when it falls over and/or it has some level of
disasters on the key/certificate area. As I've added a note to
my notes file on a "WinPE updater" script which adds a boot.stl
for "future" usage. There's got to be some blowback when your
25H2 disc is signed with PCA2011 and your machine has been
actively working to add PCA2011 to the dbx and invalidate PCA2011.
I'm sure the audience here, would just love to re-master a Microsoft
DVD. Well, it's actually relatively easy, but at least one of the
fine recipes was removed from the web. I've remastered several
DVDs, and one purpose of doing that, is shaving 500MB off the DVD
size, so it fits on single layer media (this was back when I had
no cake box of dual layer media). But the DVDs now are
big enough, saving 500MB is no longer enough, so half the fun
has gone out of remastering.
I still do not trust, that turning off Secure Boot in the UEFI BIOS
makes the machine "immune to keys". That does not appear to be
the case. I'm still seeing interactions and strange stuff. The
machine I'm typing on, it is behaving differently than the *identical* motherboard in the Spare Machine, which so far has not acted up.
UEFI and NVRAM and 4x32KB Key Stores is nothing but Pure Evil
in terms of reproducible experiences every morning.
Microsoft knows the business is hitting a brick wall. Retail motherboard
sales are down 35%. Just yesterday, several categories of new hardware
received price increases (as the slope of the RAM curve has changed
a bit), so you know that their business plan will now have an
air of desperation about it. The new person in the XBox department,
will have to buy cheaper outfits.
Paul
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