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Microsoft appears to be listening — again — and the small but vocal fight over the Windows taskbar is suddenly at the centre of a broader shift in Windows engineering priorities that also includes a quieter rework of how Microsoft will ship platform-level Windows images for new hardware. Recent...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 release, version 26H1, is not a conventional feature update for existing PCs — it’s a narrow, device‑first platform image designed to enable next‑generation Arm silicon and will ship only on select new devices (notably those built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2...

Microsoft has quietly pushed the first public preview of what shows up in Settings and winver as Windows 11, version 26H1, but the Canary‑channel drop is intentionally narrow: it’s a platform‑only branch intended to enable support for specific silicon rather than the next mass‑market feature...