The next annual upgrade of Windows 11 is about to deploy, because Microsoft is now making the final preparations to release the 25h2 update.
Latest Windows reports This Microsoft now downloads Windows 11 25H2 from its servers and that the latest version (version 26200.6584) is apparently the RTM candidate (manufacturers’ version).
This means that the 25h2 update is carried out and ready for PC manufacturers (to be installed on new machines in the future) – and taking into account this, it should be made available to all those who execute Windows 11 very soon.
In theory, this could mean that we see Windows 11 25:2h deploying in a week, or perhaps two, but it is surely imminent (except a last-minute disaster). Previously, we were planning a late September or Beginning early OctoberSo this corresponds to this chronology. It also means that the new version of Windows 11 will be deployed before the curtain fell for Windows 10 end deadline in mid-October.
Windows Last also highlights something interesting in that the best thing about 25h2 could actually land first for Windows 11 24:2 users. Confused? Let me explain.
Analysis: a really lukewarm upgrade
As Microsoft has already specified, the Update 25h2 is a minor upgrade. All the features of this update are already in place in Windows 11 24H2, and 25H2 is what is called an “activation package” which simply triggers the switch to activate these capacities.
The torsion with 25h2, however, is that all these features also come to those of 24h2. The biggest change with 25h2 is the Redesinated start menu which rationalizes the arrangement to a single panel (and allows you to drop the recommended section, a big step forward in terms of distribution with The different push of Microsoft and promotional songs).
This revised start -up menu arrives at the same time at 25:2 and 24h2 via a progressive deployment, Microsoft told the most Windows, which means that it might not happen for those who update 25:2 immediately – and people remaining at 24:2 am could even get it first (it is a dice roll when it turns out to be, at least to a certain extent).
Like Windows the latest clarifies, each new incoming feature for 25h2 – the start menu included – arrives at 24:2, which is an unusual situation. (At least as far as I remember, anyway – while certain features can be delivered to the previous embodiment of Windows, there is generally something exclusively new for those who upgrade).
You can now ask: what is the interest of 25h2, then? Well, inevitably, the 25h2 version will not be Exactly the same as 24h2. I would be surprised if there were not a few minor additions in terms of new features exclusive to this latest version, frankly, if only small pieces.
And even if it is not the case, it is likely that the work will be done under the hood with 25H2 to smooth the internal operation of Windows 11 – and perhaps even increase performance in some respects. Certainly, on this last front, early tests suggest that There is no performance succession with 25h2But this comparative analysis did not use the final version of the update (not quite) – and it does not exclude certain bits of the interface potentially gently.
You will also have a longer calendar for the support for 25h2 (an additional year), but in the end, there is not much to try Windows 11 users to upgrade here. The result is that, although the next annual update of Windows 11 is certainly imminent, there will not be a lot of rush to obtain it – because it does not do much.
And indeed, the biggest change, this new layout of the start -up menu, could come to those who stay over 24 hours a first, in any case – it is the chance of the draw, according to your particular hardware and software configuration and how the update winds blow.
