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Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] lime@feddit.nu 36 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

god i hope they fuck this up

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They're already fucking this up with vibe-coding Windows 11, so if they seriously go all-in on this, Windows 12 will be a bigger disaster than fucking Windows Vista and Windows Millennium Edition combined.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

vista was great on compliant hardware. w11 is very much not.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Right, but that's just it, they're basically pulling another Vista if they release Windows 12 later this year.

It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.

As the article reasonably posits, it's way more likely that they'll just degrade the experience for people without NPUs, which in other words means decreased performance on older hardware, a la Vista on non-compliant hardware.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 23 hours ago

whoof. i still don't understand what makes an npu different from a vector coprocessor (except the proprietary api) so if they're smart about it they'll fall back to gpu use. they will not be smart about it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 20 hours ago

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don't deserve their huge paychecks.

They could've done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would've had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Wish granted (wiggles nose)