- Windows 11 update 25h2 is now in the version of the version
- This is the last step in the tests, which means that his arrival is imminent
- It will not offer many new exciting features – which looks like a missed opportunity in terms of people’s persuasion to pass from Windows 10
Windows 11 version 25H2 is now in its last test stage before the deployment of this year’s annual update, which should mean that the upgrade is close.
However, if you are enthusiastic about what it could mean for Windows 11, I would temperate these expectations, because this update will not take many new features.
Microsoft has just announced the arrival of Build 26200,5074, which is the 25:2 hour update, in the preview chain of the version – which, as its name suggests, is the last channel for the preview builds before being published.
However, no new feature is mentioned in the blog post. In fact, everything Microsoft is talking about is some elements that are eliminated, namely PowerShell 2.0 and some other bits that will only worry Windows 11 users, and companies, not for the average consumer.
Does this mean that nothing is introduced with Windows 11 25:2 hours? No, in a word, because Microsoft will have new features, and these will be killed on Windows 11 PC before the output of 25h2.
As we already know, the 25h2 update is delivered as an activation package, which means that the works of the new features are put in place in the background of Windows 11 – and all that the update does during its publication is the switch, so to speak, to send these live capacities.
Analysis: a strangely timed stale of update?
So, even if we do not know what the new features will be, what we know is that the update will not be great. Activation packages are used as a means of facilitating minor updates, so 25h2 will not have big movements – but it will carry a lot of settings and some additions (you could not have an annual update which has only made bug corrections, of course).
There will probably be nothing to scream, however, and it is a fair bet that the heavier characteristics – as they are – will be linked to AI and for Copilot + PC only, which means that most people will not get them.
In some respects, it looks like a strange moment to release a relative groan of an update, since Microsoft is currently on something of a crusade to bring Windows 10 users to go to Windows 11.
From this point of view, it would have been intelligent to trigger an update with something that really attracted the attention of people confronted on the deadline for the end of Windows 10 support and wondering what to do. A kind of: “Hey, get Windows 11 and you will benefit from this really cool feature” to help persuade some of the fence sitters to take the plunge.
It looks like a missed opportunity for me; But of course, Microsoft has a software development calendar that must be respected, and I assume that it is right as the dice fell.
Given the free additional year (with a slight support) for Windows 10 support, I assume that it is also possible that Microsoft has planned to do something much more robust – because this Freebie support extension will take people next year. Maybe this could even be the launch of Windows 12, or what it could be called (although I doubt it in one way or another).
However, on the reverse, the good point on a minor update is that unlike Windows 11 24h2 – which has done major work below the surface of the operating system, and was indeed a version of Buggy – an update like 25h2 should not cause too many problems on the path of seeds.
Anyway, the short term in the short term is that Windows 11 25:2h are almost there, and we could even see it published in October. In fact, I think it is very likely, although it will of course depend on how the tests take place.
