It is a bit misleading to say that “25H2 does not introduce any new features”

People seem to chant that Windows 11 version 25H2 does not introduce any new features. I think that that is a bit misleading.

The new features that 25H2 brings were already brought into 24H2 installations using Cumulative Updates. However, those features are dormant by default. 25H2 is an enablement package that enables those dormant features.

So I would say that in practice 25H2 does introduce new features — just in a roundabout way.

Think of it as a pack of new features brought in 24H2 under a hood. 25H2 removes that hood, and now you have all the new features available that were under that hood.

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