{"id":194261,"date":"2025-10-01T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194261\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:13:09","slug":"microsofts-windows-11-2025-update-starts-rolling-out-today-but-dont-expect-anything-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194261\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 11 2025 update starts rolling out today (but don&#8217;t expect anything new)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">What good is an update if it doesn\u2019t actually add anything new? That\u2019s the question I\u2019m left asking about Microsoft\u2019s Windows 11 2025 update (AKA Windows 11 25H2), which the company will begin pushing out today. Instead of adding any major new capabilities, Microsoft says it\u2019s an \u201cenablement package\u201d that includes recent features added to last year\u2019s 24H2 release. If anything, it could be a push for stragglers who\u2019ve ignored recent updates to get onboard with new Windows 11 capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Microsoft says the Windows 11 2025 update also \u201cincludes significant advancements in build and runtime vulnerability detection, coupled with AI assisted secure coding.\u201d Additionally, the new update should be leaner than before, thanks to the removal of PowerShell 2.0 and Windows Management instrumentation command-line (WMIC). Those are legacy features most users have never touched, but their removal could annoy power users and IT admins who have built ancient scripts using PowerShell 2.0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">As usual, Microsoft says it will start delivering the Windows 11 2025 update to users in waves. The first batch includes users with 24H2 devices who\u2019ve turned on \u201cGet the latest updates as soon as they\u2019re available\u201d in Windows Update. Now that Microsoft has moved to a frequent update cadence, you can expect to see actual new features for Windows 11 25H2 arriving in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What good is an update if it doesn\u2019t actually add anything new? That\u2019s the question I\u2019m left asking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1281,74,50461,112797,65357],"class_list":["post-194261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-technology","tag-windows-11","tag-windows-management-instrumentation","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}