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...
Microsoft’s public acknowledgment that “we need to improve Windows in ways that are meaningful for people” is more than PR; it’s a tacit admission that 2025’s push toward an AI-first Windows left too many everyday problems unresolved — and that 2026 will be about fixing fundamentals first...