There are more and more of them signs that point to the imminent arrival of Windows 11 23H2, this year’s big operating system update for Windows 11. As you may remember, 2021 was the last year that Redmond released two big annual updates (H1 and H2), a pattern that, thanks to the short timing, resulted in a large number of these updates arriving plagued by errors. some cases took months to resolve, with subsequent problems for users and the image of the company and the operating system.

Now, with Windows 10 only getting updates focused on fixing bugs and fixing security holes, and with only one major annual update, Microsoft has an easier time polishing it, and therefore reaches users without dust and chaff. Of course, this is also helped by the model of deploying new functions separated from updates with the so-called Moments, because it also allows the amount of content (and thus potentially dangerous changes) to be moderated in updates.

So it can be expected that Windows 11 23H2 will be an update, to say the least, even more so considering that aims not to be particularly ambitious, as we told you a few months ago. The most notable thing will most likely be the arrival of Windows Copilot, the artificial intelligence-based assistant integrated into the operating system that Microsoft announced last May and which arrived in the beta channel more than a month ago. The Insiders program, although this does not guarantee that the assistant will eventually arrive from the hand of 23H2, as it could do so later in the form of a Moment.

Be that as it may, today we can read it in WindowsLatest Microsoft is already preparing the arrival of Windows 11 23H2, deploying a control in the Windows Update section that allows users to choose to download and install updates of all types (not just security ones) as soon as possible. Said control would be made possible by the KB5030509 update, according to the said publication, and its activation would enable the quick activation of those features that have already arrived in Windows, but which will be enabled only after the publication of 23H2.

So hopefully Microsoft will finally comply with introducing Windows 11 23H2 at an event next Thursday September 21st, although I still think, as I said when announcing the event, that I highly doubt Windows Update will be the hero of the event. So it’s more likely that it will be included, but that the focus will fall on the new Surface devices.

On the other hand, just yesterday we suggested that maybe Microsoft should delay the launch of Windows 11 23H2 until you have adequately investigated the issues that are reported after installing update KB5030219, and optionally until Intel releases the microcode updates necessary to resolve the UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR issue. And deploying a major update to systems that currently have problems associated with several previous updates (even if one of them can’t be attributed to Microsoft) certainly doesn’t seem like a good idea.