A week of frenetic headlines and social posts claimed Microsoft was readying a shocking pivot: an AI-first Windows 12 arriving in 2026, locked to machines with on‑device NPUs and sold via a subscription model that would change how consumers pay for their OS. The story was wrong in nearly every...
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The PCWorld story that lit up Reddit — and then almost automatically spread across the web — promised a crisp, alarming narrative: a new, modular, AI‑first “Windows 12” codenamed Hudson Valley Next, built on a CorePC architecture, gated to machines with a 40 TOPS NPU and possibly tied to a...