Featuring a never-ending cycle of digital evolution, Microsoft is back in the public consciousness once more, gearing up to unveil Windows 11 Version 24H2 and subsequent release dates are starting to be exposed. With all eyes fixed on Microsoft’s upcoming announcement, here is everything you need to know about the latest set of features, and how the experience set by Windows 11 Version 24H2 is changing the face of personal computing.
There may well be no bigger news in the technology world today than Microsoft’s announcement of the details of a major update for Windows 11. Set for release on 8 October – an early view for impatient folk on 24 September – the update promises ‘days of better’, as Microsoft puts it.
While not everyone knows this, deep down, Windows 11 Version 24H2 is not exactly new. Starting in June, it began running on Copilot+ PCs. To the YouTubers who watched the videos, and to the numerous people who read and shared the news online, this is already old hat. And yet, the more general release is still a milestone. Because that’s how it should be. It took several hours, but now I have tasted it, too.
An exemplar of Microsoft’s tradition of endless iteration, Version 24H2 has improved performance on some CPUs, a top-notch (if controversial) emulation layer for Windows 32 (x86) apps on Arm PCs, and a bunch of quality of life improvements, such as tab previews and a dedicated button for a fake numpad that has finally made it out of the Nearby share setting. Microsoft’s increasing use of AI in in-box apps such as Bing and Clipchamp indicates a vision of the future in which life becomes increasingly inextricable from technology.
For the impatient, Microsoft is showing a little of what’s to come with an optional non-security preview release on 24 September that folks can try out ahead of time, in all its buggy glory, to provide feedback that will inform the official release.
In keeping with the tradition of Microsoft, Windows 11 Version 24H2 will be installed in waves, in an attempt to reduce the likelihood of glitches and other software problems. It’s evident that Microsoft is trying to ensure that a small number of users have to wait slightly longer than another group of users before they receive their intended update, for fear of receiving an untested version.
Beyond these reported performance enhancements and AI integration, there are also other improvements rumoured to be in the works, although exact details have yet to be fully revealed. While the rumour mill is churning, here’s what might be in store. When is the next Windows update coming?
One of the most important features of the announcement relates to the changes they’re making to Microsoft Copilot for enterprise users on Windows. This is just one of the many indications that Microsoft is serious about organisations and productivity and intelligence in the workplace.
It’s hard not to think that Microsoft is not just refining software but redefining the very nature of the PC. With Windows 11 Version 24H2, Microsoft isn’t just innovating for tomorrow; it’s innovating for the day after tomorrow.
All of what we enjoy to call ‘fun’ from Microsoft today, from the way it saw video games as an opportunity to innovate ways for people to enjoy themselves on their home computer to the way its visualisation technology allowed filmmakers and musicians to dream bigger, was part of a great plan to bring the dream of technological advance, of the future, to every last person and organisation on this planet. To put technology into people’s lives and homes and workplaces and companies and schoolrooms and government offices and days out and nights in – to make everything more possible for everyone.
And as we eagerly wait for Windows 11 Version 24H2 to come out, we can see that Microsoft’s legacy of innovation is continuing to bring us closer to a world without limits, where our only constraint is the faintest of echoes from the past. With exhaustive hard work, determined persistence and a spirit of forward-thinking optimism, Microsoft is not only reimagining the future of computing, but our world.
Putting it all together, with release dates looming near the horizon, you can’t really claim that it’s ‘just an update’ when it comes to Windows 11 Version 24H2. Microsoft very nearly invented the internet. And only Microsoft could make the regular progress updates to a major tech piece of infrastructure as exciting as it is with the Windows 11 Version 24H2. No one’s sure what to expect in terms of a shiny new aspect of the new level of continuing progress, but it’s going to be fresh, that’s for sure. And, really, isn’t that all that really matters?
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