Microsoft has quietly shifted its Windows release playbook: the Canary-channel preview currently showing as Windows 11, version 26H1, is not a typical consumer-facing feature update but a platform-only release — codenamed Bromine — built primarily to enable next‑generation Arm and AI‑focused...
Microsoft has quietly pushed a Canary-channel build that relabels Windows 11 as version 26H1 — but the company says this is not the next mainstream feature update; it’s a targeted, platform-only branch intended to enable next‑generation Arm and AI‑centric silicon such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2...
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