Microsoft’s first Home windows 11 26H2 preview is right here. Up to now, it is AI and fixes
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In abstract:
- PCWorld studies that Microsoft has launched the primary Home windows 11 26H2 preview to Dev Channel Insiders, marking a major replace with new options not like the earlier 26H1 launch.
- The replace introduces intensive Copilot AI integration throughout File Explorer, Home windows Search, notification heart, and a redesigned Run dialog field, although these options will doubtless stay elective.
- Microsoft delivers 26H2 by means of an enablement package deal that unlocks beforehand hidden options, promising significant improvements for the Home windows 11 expertise.
Microsoft has launched the primary preview of Home windows 11 26H2 to Insiders on the Dev Channel, which would be the subsequent main characteristic replace for the working system. In contrast to 26H1, 26H2 brings actual improvements.
That is Home windows 11 (Construct 26300.7674) and the main points within the replace part of this Home windows preview point out that this main replace will as soon as once more come within the type of an enablement package deal.
An enablement package deal is one which unlocks options that exist already within the working system however have been beforehand unavailable. This permits the official replace to be a lot smaller with out requiring a whole reinstallation or in-place improve. Microsoft beforehand delivered Home windows 11 25H2 as an enablement package deal.
In accordance with Home windows Newest, the “Home windows 11 26H2” model designation doesn’t at the moment seem within the model info beneath Home windows Settings, nor does it seem while you use the winver command within the Command Immediate. Up to now, “Home windows 11 26H2” can solely be discovered within the Home windows Replace part beneath put in updates—assuming you’re an Insider and also you’ve put in this replace.
New options in Home windows 11 26H2
Microsoft has not but revealed precisely what new options will probably be coming with Home windows 11 26H2. Nevertheless, the prevailing preview variations present many clues. For instance, Microsoft is testing a Copilot chat in File Explorer and Copilot will doubtless be proven in File Explorer’s proper panel.
Copilot can also be more likely to be built-in into Home windows Search within the taskbar. Each Copilot integrations are more likely to be elective and never enabled by default, as Home windows Newest suspects. Copilot can also be discovering its manner into the Home windows 11 notification heart.
The preview variations of Home windows 11 to date additionally present that Microsoft is testing a brand new Run dialog field. The adjustments look like extra than simply visible, as Microsoft can also be including new options.
When will Home windows 11 26H2 launch?
Home windows 11 26H2 is anticipated to be launched in October 2026, the everyday month for yearly’s huge fall replace. (Home windows 11 25H2 was beforehand launched in October.) As soon as Microsoft has formally introduced the discharge of Home windows 11 26H2, the replace is anticipated to be step by step rolled out to appropriate computer systems.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
