The introduction of Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) is here. Yes, although there are still many users whose devices remain on Wi-Fi 6 or even Wi-Fi 5, we already told you at the end of last year that the approval of the standard was imminent and that based on its specifications Already known Many manufacturers already some has been working on the design of components and devices capable of supporting this new revision of the IEEE 802.11 standard, which for many years has established the standards for wireless local area network connectivity in our devices.

Let’s recall, in terms of dates, that the Wi-Fi Alliance has confirmed that the certification will be available before the end of the first quarter of 2024, namely Finally, said approval took place at the beginning of the year. And let’s also remember that we are talking about a major consortium of manufacturers related to Wi-Fi connectivity, and that this is what made possible what I indicated earlier, that the component designs started quite a long time ago (MediaTek already showed its capabilities at the beginning of 2022 and Qualcomm also signaled in this regard in the middle of the same year, to name just two examples).

Now that devices support Wi-Fi 7 is only part of the equation, because logically so It is essential that the operating systems are also compatible with this new revision of the wireless protocol. And speaking of Microsoft, we learned last year that its plans were to bring support only to Windows 11 and later, although later information indicated that it would come to Windows 10 as well.

Now we are waiting to see if it will finally come to Windows 10 or not, and there is no doubt (logically, of course) that the current version of the operating system will have this support soon, and the most obvious sign of this is for those who do not believe only words, it is Preview Build 26063 of Windows 11 in Canary and Dev channels already includes support for connectivity with Wi-Fi 7 wireless access pointsas we can see in the manual for this version.

The fact that it’s now debuting on the Dev and Canary channels tells us that we’ll likely have to wait a little longer for the final version of Windows 11 to be compatible with Wi-Fi 7, although depending on the results of these early tests, it’s possible that the process can be sped up a bit. So yes It can be assumed that this will be the case throughout this year, maybe with the arrival of Windows 11 24H2? Or perhaps with Moments 5?