News Windows 11's 23H2 Update ISO and Moment 4 Are Ready for Installation

[Admin]

The latest version of Windows 11 promises many new features and fixes, but are these changes enough to push the increased adoption of Windows 11?

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[dtemple]

As a local account user, I can personally confirm that the newest version of Rufus is compatible with the new 23H2 build and can still perform the same tweaks as before to the install media as it's created.

 

[baboma]

Rufus' workarounds should be good for the rest of Win11, which if rumors hold will have one major update (24H2?) left before Win12 kicks in. Per the FAQ,

FAQ

The Reliable USB Formatting Utility. Contribute to pbatard/rufus development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

"Okay, the first thing you need to understand about this option is that it is designed to make the Windows installer restore a feature that exists in Windows 11 21H2 and that Microsoft removed in 22H2."

With or without Rufus, workaround is trivial. You can always create an MS acct for install, and switch same acct to local login afterward. HW req bypass is the more substantive issue, but I'm fairly confident Win12 will allow some loophole for enthusiasts to exploit.

Win11 23H2 is basically MS' first foray at deploying AI viz Copilot into its consumer platforms. Monetization should be minimal, as MS is still exploring what works. AI features will be more pervasive in Win12, and that will be when commercialization will happen.

For example, Copilot will likely be more functional as a personal assistant in Win12, but your use of it may be more limited--perhaps denied altogether--unless logged into an MS acct. Functionality may be further tiered with a subscription, which is already happening for business accts ($30/seat for AI in Win 365 Copilot).

Secondly, AI queries (prompts) cost money, and MS will want to mitigate cost by localizing queries when it can, which means CPUs w/ NPU will come into play. IMO that will be a HW requirement going forward. If Win12 is pushed into '25, NPU will likely be a prerequisite. If Win12 pops out in '24, then NPU req will probably be pushed to Win14 (there'll be no Win13, just as there was no Win9).

 

[abufrejoval]

The 23H2 update just popped up and installed on my Xeon E5 2696 v4 launched in 2016, which is officially about two generations out of date for Windows 11... It's a 22 core chip I just bought for €160 a few weeks ago, to replace the 18-core Haswell Xeon E5-2696 v3 I originally used to install the same OS.

So how does that work?

I run it on Proxmox with GPU (and some USB) pass-through, so games run at native speeds on my RTX while Windows won't complain about the CPU, TPM or whatnot...

Windows just sees a 16 core QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+ and proves that all these CPU restrictions are pure bollocks or rather evil vendor imposed osolescence: Shame on you M$, I hope you get fined to where it really hurts over this!

M$ likes squeezing a hypervisor between you and your system, so just make sure you chose the one that won't tell you "your system does not qualify".