Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2024/06/10/microsoft_pulls_windows_24h2_11/
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The pause was announced via an [1]addition to the original release blog, in which Microsoft had earlier boasted of the preview of new features ahead of general availability later in 2024. The update included goodies like Wi-Fi 7 support, Sudo for Windows, Rust in the Windows kernel, and various Windows 11 user experience tweaks.
Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks [2]READ MORE
While Microsoft noted that AI functionality, including the controversial logging feature Recall, would not immediately be available "as they require a Copilot+ PC," enabling Recall on a PC lacking the exotic AI silicon [3]proved relatively straightforward for security expert Kevin Beaumont.
Microsoft has not given a reason for hitting the pause button. Windows Insider Senior Program Manager Brandon LeBlanc [4]remarked : "I don't have anything more to share beyond what's in the blog post and that we are working to get it rolling out again shortly."
A glance at Microsoft's Feedback Hub, however, shows that all is not well with Windows 11 24H2. Microsoft [5]recommends the Release Preview Channel for commercial users or customers keen to test the operating system prior to general availability. Users who don't mind a bit of instability or the odd rough edge can opt for the Dev Channel.
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Yet the lengthy list of complaints indicates issues with the operating system. Users have reported application freezes, degraded performance, and problems with VPNs. Others have taken to social media to unload their dissatisfaction. One [7]described the Arm release as "disastrous, worst 'release' preview I can remember."
[8]Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in
[9]Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall
[10]Microsoft deletes deleterious file deletion bug from Windows 10 October 2018 Update
[11]Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to run
At the tail end of last week, Microsoft finally admitted – as it pulled 24H2 from the Release Preview Channel – that the Recall feature, which takes a snapshot of whatever is on the user's screen every few seconds, was going to [12]need some changes before the preview ships on June 18.
In 2018, Microsoft released a version of Windows 10 with a potential [13]data deletion bug . Six years on, the company appears to be aiming its gun at the other foot with the "privacy nightmare" of Recall and a slew of issues turning up in the Feedback hub.
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Pulling Windows 11 24H2 from the Release Preview Channel is an indicator that maybe – just maybe – Microsoft listens to its users after all. ®
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[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/05/22/releasing-windows-11-version-24h2-to-the-release-preview-channel/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/25/microsoft_build_kettle/
[3] https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e
[4] https://x.com/brandonleblanc/status/1799478915582542199
[5] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/03/06/whats-coming-for-the-windows-insider-program-in-2023/
[6] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2ZmcjHzOIvytDemTeTcDQZQAAAIU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/1dbg1j4/comment/l7rs1p3/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/07/microsoft_recall_changes/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/06/microsoft_research_recall/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2018/10/10/microsoft_windows_deletion_bug/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/28/microsofts_recall_preview_on_non_ai_pc/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/07/microsoft_recall_changes/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2018/10/10/microsoft_windows_deletion_bug/
[14] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44ZmcjHzOIvytDemTeTcDQZQAAAIU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[15] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Comming soon....
But 12 is no longer prime. You'd be getting four times Windows 3.
Distributed on floppies, a whole barrel full of 'm. Maybe not so bad after all.
They need to figure out a way to put more adverts in it, and also to find ever more insidious ways of making people set up a Microsoft account.
...an indicator that maybe – just maybe – Microsoft listens to its users after all.
Surely, you're joking. They haven't listened to users before and sure as hell will not start now. The "OS" has become a pure vehicle of user tracking and user analysis for control and to sling more junk at users consumers. A bright example of capitalism.
They will only listen to their bottom line and their partners in crime capitalism.
But it does listen to it's lawyers and I suppose they use PCs so one could call them "users" so instead of the obviously incorrect " Microsoft listens to its users after all. " perhaps " Microsoft listens to a very small subset of users. " would be better.
Nah, their lawyers surely get the "corporate edition" on which you can actually--wait for it--work!... (Imagine that!)
The "nonsense edition" is only for the hapless masses, those you can abuse all you want.
rust in the kernel?
don't put that on the box!
Re: rust in the kernel?
Why not ? Don't you believe in the "truth in advertising" practice that is claimed by so many nations ??
Same old...
Running it on 2 out of 3 devices and it's been fine... same problems as the previous version (Start menu stops accepting input etc) but no new ones that I noticed. They're finally shipping it with a version of refsutil that works with the version of ReFS on the disk and it does indeed make builds run faster so I'm happy with that!
Quicker than I thought
"While Microsoft noted that AI functionality, including the controversial logging feature Recall, would not immediately be available "as they require a Copilot+ PC," enabling Recall on a PC lacking the exotic AI silicon proved relatively straightforward for security expert Kevin Beaumont."
I previously posited that while they say no Recall based information leaves the PC, I speculated they would do AI infrencing on the Recall data and thus skirt that promise and still get everything they want.
I am just surprised it is this blatant and this quick.
If no iniormation leaves the PC, why would a Copilot+ AI enabled PC be a requirement.
Obviously this is no confirmation, but the double speak and bent answers only leads to speculation, and the goings on heavily point more and more to them pulling shady business with personal data at a rate never been tried before.
mictosoft strikes again. You'd think that after 38 years the redmondites would know how to write clean, compact, unbloated code. I wonder if GEMM is still available?
Comming soon....
Windows 12?