The Copilot button is now on the far right of the Taskbar. Windows 11 version 24H2: Microsoft Copilot These PCs have powerful NPUs that will take advantage of new AI features that haven't yet been announced, although Microsoft has teased them. This release will be the one that powers up next-gen AI PCs, some of which have already been announced and will start shipping as soon as next month. However, the version 24H2 update won't be made generally available to existing Windows 11 users until September at the earliest when the update is deemed fully ready. Some next-gen AI PCs will begin shipping with version 24H2 preloaded as early as June. This is only possible when the platform release doesn't change between versions.Īll this is to say version 24H2 won't begin shipping until the second half of 2024. This is different from version 23H2, which was applied by servicing the existing OS install. An OS swap update is that is applied by replacing the entire OS with a newer version. Once that's done, work will begin on "finalizing" the version 24H2 update, which will be built on the signed-off Germanium platform build.Ī new release of the Windows platform means the update will be installed using the "OS swap" method. Microsoft intends to sign off on the new Windows platform release (called Germanium) in April. This'll be a fun week.Because version 24H2 will be based on a new version of the Windows platform, there are multiple development milestones between now and the general availability of the version 24H2 update. I'm fairly certain there are still parts of the windows core that rely on it too. Should be interesting to see what happens when IE is actually removed though. Thankfully, I do not support these products. I know of a certain product used by various hotel chains which AFAIK, after IE went OOS, the solution to keep it running was to just override the system and force it to keep running in IE (the official patch notes I seen explained that even though windows tried to hide IE, it was still in existence under C:\Progra~1\Intern~1\iexplore.exe). You know, this old company called Micros (now under the control and ownership of a certain unnamed to protect the guilty, company which barely supports or updates any of it) wrote a whole bunch of POS applications in Java back in the day which basically will ONLY run under IE (modern browsers have various security considerations in place which would cause the software to lose certain core functionality). So now despite more and more sites refusing to allow IE and forcing you to use other applications, we’re still forcing it as the default and telling users “just copy and paste the URL into Google Chrome” instead of actually fixing the fucking problem. Then management decided that was good enough and the policy was never pushed out company-wide despite now being in use for seven months with no issues whatsoever, and they just have us add people to the OU that has the fix whenever they complain about not being able to access the site in question. We then applied this GPO to a handful of the people who would need it in order to access the one site that only works in IE as a way to make sure it wouldn’t break anything. I was responsible for finding an implementing a fix for this in time to meet the cutoff for the IE end of life update seven months ago, which I managed to do (setting Edge as default and forcing the site in question to load in IE mode whenever it’s accessed, and enforcing these policies through a GPO). My work still relies on Internet Explorer for one specific application that only about ten percent of our staff even uses, but it’s only able to launch whatever the default web browser is, so we need to keep IE as the default web browser for the entire company for this one software. They had like 12 years from the time Steve Jobs announced that (Adobe) Flash was dead to its removal and some companies didn't do anything about it until "hey, it doesn't work!" People I know in the education and training space have told me so many horror stories about educational publishers who just flat out ignored that Flash was going to be killed.and cheapskate school districts who wouldn't fork out however many millions the textbook publisher wanted for their crappy "interactive" content when they did move on. And yes, there's still a lot of this crap kicking around in dark corners, quietly running equipment that costs millions to replace or generates millions a day. Stir in ActiveX, Java applets and other messes and it's a toxic brew for sure. That period from the late 90s to the early 2000s is particularly tough Microsoft had people convinced that the only way to write web apps was to use every one-off IE and IIS feature. I'm one of the weirdos who actually enjoys the challenge, but browser stuff is the worst.
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