This whole article feels AI generated. Every section has weird, unbolded headings and the article has a typical “cadence” of “KEY CONCLUSIONS” and “WHAT THIS MEANS” over and over.

Either this article is written by a first year journalist or it’s just an AI pump and dump for clicks.

So the consumer ring is now alpha instead of beta quality?

Now MS can fuck your computer even faster than before!

Ok and how is this update going to break my computer because every update breaks it.

Is this already part of their illusive K2 update plan?

Having those who write the OS so incestuously involved in hawking hardware is probably a bad idea and unsustainable when they have so demonstrably switched their emphasis to forcing new kit.

This plus hotpatch is going to be very nice for users. They always cry about their devices constantly needing restarts. It got really bad where devices were updating 10-30mins each update.

the bits for the ‘upgrade’ have been flowing-in through regular updates for months, with features left disabled… slowing those updates every single month. the upgrade time was just spread out in installments, instead of being paid all at once.