Let’s make it more difficult to keep up with changing technology

As if the struggle to keep up with technological change wasn’t hard enough for those of us in the industry, now we’ve got to deal with reports that are made up by GenAI?

No, Windows 12 Isn’t Replacing Windows 11 Anytime Soon

A now retracted PCWorld article published on March 2, 2026, claimed that Windows 12 was imminent. The article promised a modular, AI-first, maybe subscription-based OS built on a brand new CorePC architecture. That article hit Reddit at r/Technology (now removed by moderators) and garnered more than 14,000 upvotes and thousands of angry comments. The article spread to secondary aggregator sites and eventually hit Google News, according to TechIssueToday and WindowsLatest.

Turns out, the whole article may have been an AI hallucination.

I work with Microsoft technology every day. The original article caught my eye because it seemed plausible, and a change like that is something I need to be aware of. Like, it’s big news that our team will need tos tart planning for. Luckily, I bookmarked it but hadn’t shared it with the rest of the team yet.

It was a lesson, though. Just because news appears in some normally trustworthy sources doesn’t mean it’s true. That makes it just that much harder to stay in front of change, though. That’s not good.

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