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Microsoft’s denial of an imminent, AI‑first “Windows 12” for 2026 was blunt and — in practical terms — overdue, because a single speculative report had already catalyzed a week of frantic headlines, social outrage, and purchase‑cycle anxiety across the PC ecosystem on March 4–5, 2026. The quick...

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...