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Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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in other words, your pc will be doing ai shit for someone else's pc while you are idle
don't forget to subscribe to our AI for $$/month, Microslop probably
They couldn’t afford enough electricity to run it in-house so now they just run a mandated botnet to make you pay for it instead. If this isn’t a page out of a George Orwell novel, it should have been.
2026 even has newspeak in the form of bullshit like "unalive"
Didn't Microsoft try that one before?
That's not at all what that means, nor does it make any sense.
Windows is already occupying your hardware and network with "telemetry". I would be surprised if telemetry overhead alone was all that was needed to burden modern hardware and yet when i boot into windows those fans never shut up.