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The Windows 12 rumors continue, but Microsoft's actual roadmap tells a different story. There is still no official Windows 12 release announcement for 2026 . Meanwhile, Microsoft is continuing to develop Windows 11, with version 26H2 appearing in Insider builds and the company maintaining its annual feature-update cadence. For developers and system administrators, this may be more important than the Windows 12 name itself. Windows Is Becoming a Continuously Updated Platform The old model was straightforward: Windows 10 ↓ Windows 11 ↓ Windows 12 The current model looks more like: Windows 11 ├── Security Updates ├── Feature Updates ├── AI Features ├── Hardware Support └── Platform Changes Microsoft says Windows 11 receives an annual feature update in the second half of each year, alongside monthly cumulative security updates. Windows 11 26H2 Microsoft has already exposed version 26H2 in Windows Insider builds. The June 2026 Insider release changed the version information shown by winver and Windows Settings to 26H2. Recent reporting expects the broader 26H2 rollout later in 2026, potentially as an enablement package for compatible Windows 11 systems. This is significant because an enablement-style update can make a major version transition much less disruptive. Why Developers Should Care The Windows version number is becoming less useful as a proxy for the actual platform capabilities. A developer increasingly needs to consider: Windows build number API availability security features hardware capabilities virtualization NPU availability driver versions application compatibility Two machines running Windows 11 may therefore have substantially different capabilities. Windows 11 | +---- CPU +---- GPU +---- NPU +---- VBS +---- HVCI +---- Secure Boot AI Could Define the Next Windows Generation The biggest change may not be Windows 12 itself. It may be the increasing integration of local AI and dedicated NPUs . That creates a new development model: Application | v Windows A

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can't say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that's almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim they bought the pad for $200 on OfferUp. In May, a Brazilian regulator's leaked images revealed that Xbox […]

POML คืออะไร, ภาษาที่ทำให้ Prompt Engineering เป็นแบบ HTML/CSS โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | 6 สิงหาคม 2569 บทความนี้เขียนโดย AI (deepseek-v4-flash:0731) ผ่าน Hermes Agent ภายใต้การควบคุมและตรวจสอบคุณภาพโดยมนุษย์, Nokka (นก-กา) ถ้าคุณเป็นนักพัฒนาที่ทำงานกับ AI และรู้สึกว่า prompt ที่เขียนเป็นข้อความยาวๆ เริ่มจัดการยากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ มีข่าวดีจาก Microsoft ในบทความนี้ผมจะอธิบายว่า POML คืออะไร เอาไว้ใช้ทำอะไร และเหมาะกับใคร POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) เป็นภาษาโอเพ่นซอร์สที่ให้ prompt engineering แบบเดียวกับ HTML/CSS, มี semantic tags สำหรับ role, task และ example พร้อม stylesheet ที่ควบคุมความยาวและรูปแบบโดยไม่ต้องแตะ logic หลัก [1][2] POML คืออะไร POML ย่อมาจาก Prompt Orchestration Markup Language เป็นภาษาโอเพ่นซอร์สที่ Microsoft พัฒนาขึ้น เพื่อจัดระเบียบ prompt components อย่างเป็นระบบ [1][2] แนวคิดหลักคือการแยก "เนื้อหา" (content) ออกจาก "การนำเสนอ" (presentation), เหมือนที่ HTML แยกโครงสร้างออกจาก CSS ที่ควบคุมสไตล์ [1][2] โปรเจกต์นี้มีผู้ติดตามบน GitHub ประมาณ 4,900 stars และถูก fork ไปกว่า 250 ครั้ง [2] เอาไว้ใช้ทำอะไร POML ให้ "การรักษาแบบ HTML/CSS" กับ prompt engineering [1]: 1. Semantic tags สำหรับ role, task, example แทนที่จะเขียน prompt เป็นข้อความยาวๆ POML ใช้แท็กที่สื่อความหมาย เช่น <role> , <task> , <example> เพื่อจัดโครงสร้าง [1] ฟีเจอร์ สิ่งที่ทำได้ Semantic tags แท็ก <role> <task> <example> จัดโครงสร้าง prompt Stylesheet ควบคุมความยาว/รูปแบบ โดยไม่แตะ logic หลัก Templating engine สร้าง prompt ที่นำกลับมาใช้ซ้ำได้ VS Code extension preview + diagnostics ในตัว 2. Stylesheet ควบคุม verbosity และ format เหมือน CSS ที่ควบคุมสไตล์เว็บ POML มี "stylesheet" ที่ควบคุมความยาว (verbosity) และรูปแบบ (format) ของ prompt โดยไม่ต้องแตะ logic หลัก [1] 3. Built-in templating engine มีเครื่องมือ templating ในตัว ช่วยให้สร้าง prompt ที่นำกลับมาใช้ซ้ำได้ (reusable) [1] 4. VS Code extension มี extension สำหรับ VS Code ที่ให้ preview และ diagnostics, เห็นผลลัพธ์และตรวจสอบข้อผิดพลาดได้ [1] ตัวอย่าง POML จริงจาก Microsoft, เทียบกับ Prompt แบบดั้งเดิม เพื่อให้เห็นภาพชัดเจนว

Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still […]

Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to Microsoft, there are only 58 extensions on the Edge Add-On Store "with any meaningful usage" that still use MV2, and only three […]

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree.

Most Windows 11 users don't need to bother with the Pro version of Microsoft's operating system.

Apple is working on a feature that will allow users in the European Union to copy content on their iPhone and paste it onto their Windows PC (or vice versa), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The move comes in response to an interoperability request from Microsoft that asks Apple to open up its Universal Clipboard […]

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, but we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, that it will run games from every generation of Xbox: the original 2001 Xbox, the 2005 Xbox 360, […]

How I implemented wmiexec from scratch in Rust — DCOM activation, OXID resolution, and MS-WMIO object marshaling — by using impacket not as a library but as a debugging oracle, and diffing my wire bytes against it until a Windows DC accepted them byte-for-byte. This is a build log from ADhammer, an Active Directory audit + validation toolkit I'm writing in Rust on a from-scratch DCE/RPC · NTLM · SMB2 · Kerberos stack (think "impacket for Rust"). The whole project is built with Claude Code, and this post is the single best example of what that actually looks like — not autocomplete, but a tight loop of hypothesis → capture live traffic → diff → fix against a real domain controller. The goal: wmiexec, from scratch wmiexec is the classic "quiet" remote-code-execution technique: instead of creating a service (psexec/SVCCTL) or a scheduled task (atexec), you talk to WMI over DCOM and call Win32_Process.Create. No service-install event, different host telemetry. Under the hood it's three stages, each a different flavour of pain:

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0, featuring a native compiler that improves build speeds by 8x to 12x. Notable performance enhancements were evidenced in real codebases. The version lacks a stable programmatic API, anticipated in 7.1. Transitioning includes a compatibility package for existing tooling, and TypeScript remains an open-source project. By Daniel Curtis

After a massive Xbox "reset" that laid off thousands of employees and spun off four studios, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to get Xbox back to growth. In a memo obtained by The Verge, Sharma told staff by the end of fiscal year 2027 (which runs through next June), "we will return XBOX to player […]

Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots," Nadella said. "This quarter, […]

The company's tech chief said a fix for the error will be arriving soon.

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 13 percent, according to Microsoft's fourth-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday. The news comes just weeks after Xbox head Asha Sharma […]

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was made by researchers at security firm ESET after identifying 11 firmware images, at least one from 2013, that were known to be defective but remained signed by the software company anyway. The images are known as shims , which were invented to extend Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software. Using a technique simple enough to be performed by novice hackers, these old, forgotten shims can be used to completely circumvent the protection, which is embedded into the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) of the device’s motherboard. The gaffe is the result of the failure by Microsoft, which oversees the signing of shims, to revoke the publicly available images once vulnerabilities were found in them...