News Win11 25H2 apparently contains *no improvements*

mikeymikec

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Jason Leznek, Principal Project Manager for Windows Servicing and Delivery, said: "Windows 11, version 24H2 and version 25H2 share the same source code, with only the additional features turned on.

My default suspicion would have been that 25H2 is a non-update because Win12 is just around the corner, but I haven't heard any rumours. Microsoft is suffering from a severe case of writer's block? If that were the case then they could have earned some brownie points by making 25H2 into a pure bug-fixing and optimisation release...
 

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Windows 11, version 24H2 and version 25H2 share the same source code, with only the additional features turned on.

Isn't that a good thing, that they've not found bugs that need corrected and the additional features seem ready for prime time? However "same source code" could be interpreted a few different ways. Every single file has the same exact code? That does not seem likely. What would additional features turning on require? A single file or registry changes?
 

mikeymikec

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Isn't that a good thing, that they've not found bugs that need corrected and the additional features seem ready for prime time? However "same source code" could be interpreted a few different ways. Every single file has the same exact code? That does not seem likely. What would additional features turning on require? A single file or registry changes?
Are you serious? A product as complicated as an operating system and it's somehow reached the promised land of "entirely bug free"? If they've not found bugs in 24H2 then they didn't inspect a single bug report and they were using something other than 24H2 as their daily work OS.

Here's a few bugs in 24H2 off the top of my head and I don't even use Windows full-time:

1 - Windows Explorer - with taskbar grouping disabled, an pinned app that did have an open window during that session will sometimes show up on the taskbar with an line under the full length of the icon (which isn't a normal representation of an open app in that mode, it looks more like a 'download complete' icon) even though it currently has no open windows. The underline simply shouldn't be there and it's not because of some zombie process etc, clicking on the icon will open the app normally. I would say that this happens at least several times a week, probably daily.

2 - Multi display configurations occasionally forgotten by Windows, requiring re-configuration (I've seen three such issues in the last two weeks on three different PCs, two of which weren't for any semi-understandable reason like the displays being disconnected so a laptop could be used elsewhere).

3 - Long-standing issue, affects Win10 as well - coming out of S3 sleep mode sometimes results in Windows just showing the lock screen wallpaper with nothing else, and the only way to get Windows working again AFAIK is to do ctrl+alt+del which for some reason is enough to make Windows show the login prompt (even though Winlogon isn't set to ctrl+alt+del mode).

4 - File Explorer - dragging a pinned folder from the 'Home' pane in FE to the desktop results in the shortcut file being named without the ' - Shortcut' at the end of the file name, whereas from anywhere else, ' - Shortcut' gets added. I honestly thought they were finally getting rid of the ' - Shortcut' business (I always rename my shortcuts to get rid of it), but apparently not :)
 

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^ It's windows. Those aren't bugs, they're features meant to entice you into chasing the rainbow and upping to Win12.