Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re already fucking this up with vibe-coding Windows 11, so if they seriously go all-in on this, Windows 12 will be a bigger disaster than fucking Windows Vista and Windows Millennium Edition combined.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    vista was great on compliant hardware. w11 is very much not.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right, but that’s just it, they’re basically pulling another Vista if they release Windows 12 later this year.

      It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.

      As the article reasonably posits, it’s way more likely that they’ll just degrade the experience for people without NPUs, which in other words means decreased performance on older hardware, a la Vista on non-compliant hardware.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        whoof. i still don’t understand what makes an npu different from a vector coprocessor (except the proprietary api) so if they’re smart about it they’ll fall back to gpu use. they will not be smart about it.

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