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>





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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.? It was some chatter here on NGs.

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Alan K.

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On 25/06/2026 22:51, 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.?ÿÿ It was some
chatter here on NGs.

You misunderstood them; 26H1 is for a different architecture but 26H2 is normal annual upgrade for Windows 11 we all currently use.






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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.?ÿÿ 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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On 6/25/26 6:18 PM, John Smith wrote:

On 25/06/2026 22:51, 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.?ÿÿ It was some
chatter here on NGs.

You misunderstood them; 26H1 is for a different architecture but 26H2 is normal annual upgrade for Windows 11 we all currently use.

Gotcha. Thanks. 26H1 should have thrown a red flag, we don't have spring updates now.

--
Mint 22.3, Thunderbird 140.12.0esr, Firefox 152.0.1
Alan K.

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On Fri, 6/26/2026 10:50 AM, Alan K. wrote:

On 6/25/26 6:18 PM, John Smith wrote:

On 25/06/2026 22:51, 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.?ÿÿ It was some
chatter here on NGs.

You misunderstood them; 26H1 is for a different architecture but 26H2 is
normal annual upgrade for Windows 11 we all currently use.

Gotcha.ÿ Thanks.ÿÿ 26H1 should have thrown a red flag, we don't have spring updates now.

The path for x86-64 is clear enough. 25H2 --> 26H2 is the next stop for it, by enablement.

The Qualcomm branch, has some sort of story, but it's later on.
Only a Qualcomm customer would appreciate this treatment.

https://windowsforum.com/threads/windows-11-26h1-insider-split-beta-28000-vs-experimental-28100-for-snapdragon-x2.423931/

Paul

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On Fri, 6/26/2026 4:05 PM, Aid Worker wrote:

On 26/06/2026 10:04, Paul wrote:

I still do not trust, that turning off Secure Boot in the UEFI BIOS
makes the machine "immune to keys".

I have heard that disasters are happening all over the world because of expired certificates. For example, nearly 650 people have already died
and many more are missing in Venezuela because they obeyed orders from Trump's generals. Trump claims that whatever happens in Venezuela is not
his problem. His only aim is to steal as much oil as possible before the
end of his term in office, leaving Venezuela in ruins.

France and UK have already sent aid and rescue mission to Venezuela but
USA has done nothing yet.

If you leave your machine on, you'll never need to boot again.
That oughta fix it for ya.

Don't forget to turn off your updates.


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On Sat, 6/27/2026 6:11 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 27/06/2026 7:22 am, Paul wrote:

Are you gunna pay the extra couple of bucks/year to pay for the extra power used?? ;-)

This is why they have 6 watt processors. Look for an N150.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241636/intel-processor-n150-6m-cache-up-to-3-60-ghz/specifications.html

Joel has one of those, running Win11. And what is particularly
lucky for the Intel Corporation, is that processor can use
DDR4 or DDR5.

It doesn't have a "base frequency", only a "turbo", and when
it hits 6 watts, it is "going as fast as it can go". If all
cores are flat out, it might only make somewhere between
1GHz and 2GHz (thermal/power limit). But if the OS is particularly
idle (Win11 isn't always good at that), then it can hit 3.6GHz.
so when Thunderbird says "Assembling", it would be running
at 3.6GHz on one core. If it was converting a movie from
AVI to MKV, then the job is going to take a while on the
four cores, as now the 6 watts is the limit. Each core says
it is at 100%, but maybe only at 1.5GHz or so. If it's a
hot day, maybe 1.4GHz. And so on. With closed loop control,
the CPU frequency is a variable.

Other processors also work this way, the difference being that
the "all cores" speed is usually faster. I have just one
processor that can make 5.0GHz (on its "preferred" core),
and a movie conversion, it might run at 4.4GHz or so (and 70C).
And then its idle power is a lot higher and that would be
bucks on the power bill.

Paul

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:22:57 -0400, Paul wrote:

If you leave your machine on, you'll never need to boot again.
That oughta fix it for ya.

Don't forget to turn off your updates.

I've got solar panels, so as long as I've got sunlight I don't really
care, but I prefer to turn it off since electricity prices are surging.

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