Windows 11 25H2 is out today

Has it been tested with Cubase 14 etc.? Or is too early. It been available in beta form for a while (not that I’ve jumped)

Apparently Microsoft are saying it’s no big deal but there seem to be plenty of grumpy old men denouncing it on YouTube!

My advice is (as with any OS update) image your C drive before you leap!

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It’s an industry.

FWIW two of my machines have updated to 25H2 and it’s been uneventful. No change at all.

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MIDI 2.0 coming!

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As usual: Jürgen is being Jürgen. And that is not a compliment.

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Nobody knows where to find Windows 7 14H1 ? :thinking: It was so better before… :weary_face:

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I know if you bought an apple pie and it was marked 25H2 you’d think something wasn’t right! With Operating Systems you just get weirdness! It’s a bonus if it works when you get there! The only thing that is guaranteed to work is the data collection part!

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I am happy with good old 1982 MIDI! Next they will be needlessly reinventing the pen!

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Good for you. For 30 years I am hoping that MIDI 1.0 will be superseeded by something better. Unfortunately, since it’s been in existance for so long, it won’t go away for the next two or three generations (or even more).

25H2 on several of my systems for a while now (I always have early updates activated) and everything fine, including Cubendo 14.

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It’s a good standard - plain old zeros and ones down a din cable! The more you send down a cable the more there is to go wrong! Keep it simple!

But you are using the internet? What a strange take. :wink:

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Yep same here - 25H2 all running fine with Cubase Pro 14

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Been on it since pre release. No issues.

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Are there any advances of using the latest? MS hasn´t said much about it, except that there´s not so much new features..

It’s a curious update. 25H2 is an ‘enablement package’ in that it activates features that were already installed (but disabled) in updates to 24H2 over the last year. Eventually, these disabled features will be enabled on machines with 24H2 as well so the differences between the two will not initially be dramatic.

24H2 will even get MIDI 2.0 (as will 25H2 of course). It will not, however get the new native ASIO USB class compliant driver. That will only be released on 25H2.

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I am happy to report I have successfully installed 25H2. It was certainly a slow update considering it is supposed to be so insignificant that Microsoft haven’t made a song and dance about it. Lots of back end stuff to do with user accounts I imagine but we are only told half of it.

25H2 mainly seems to be the preparation to flood us with AI features, including all of Microsofts latest efforts to bcome more invasive than ever on every PC, and completely disregard privacy concerns as much as possible. Their AI-gate has not been their last effort.

Does anyone know when the more useful things like the new Asio drivers will arrive?

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Going by Pete Brown’s comments (Microsoft), it should be early to mid next year on the x64 platform.

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I’m trying to think why class complient ASIO drivers will be useful to ‘us’…

Surely a well written ASIO driver, specifically for your audio interface is always the best bet? why would you need a generic drivers that won’t work as well?

I could understand if they developed a low latency ASIO driver for the various on board windows sound chips on PC laptops and desktop motherboards…realtek for example, that’s useful, it’s one big plus for using a MBP laptop.

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