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Microsoft’s Windows roadmap is the subject of another viral wave of reporting—this time claiming a full-numbered successor, widely referred to as “Windows 12” (internal leak name: Hudson Valley Next), will arrive with a ground-up modular architecture, deep, system-level Copilot integration, and...

Microsoft’s push toward an “AI PC” is no longer background noise — it reads like a carefully timed playbook that couples the end of Windows 10 support with new hardware baselines, a modular core architecture, and a pricing model that increasingly looks like a service. The conversation that began...

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ marketing leans hard on numbers: top-performing Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft says, can be “up to five times quicker than a 5‑year‑old Windows device,” beat the MacBook Air with M4 in Cinebench 2024 multi‑core, and deliver “up to 19 hours of web browsing” or “up to 27 hours of...

Microsoft’s grand narrative for 2026 — that the “AI PC” will finally transform everyday computing — is both closer to reality and further from useful than Microsoft wants you to believe: the hardware is arriving in force, but the software and ecosystem that would turn NPUs and Copilot+ marketing...

Windows is at an inflection point: as free support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s roadmap and the community’s imagination are converging on an AI-first successor — popularly dubbed Windows 12 in rumors and concept art — that promises to be everything Windows 11 should have...