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  • One more day.

    Finished work tonight, went for my nightly 11.6km walk and when I arrived home I decided to have some minestrone soup – Artisano make a good range of soups from the supermarket and they’re great to have in the fridge if one feels the need for something to eat with minimum fuss and bother. I’ve got enough food in the pantry so this week I’ll probably pick up some coffee but apart from that I’ve got enough to get through until next pay day. The good thing about going for a walk each night is that it allows me to disconnect from work, from the world and just listen to some music without having to deal with whatever else is out there – a couple of hours just to myself.

    Watching Real Time with Bill Maher and it is frustrating how surface level the analysis is particularly when it comes to dealing with material conditions that result in the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah coming into existence not to mention the legacy of the cold war, collapse of the Ottoman Empire and western colonialism. The guests get so close and yet somehow they completely completely miss not just the target but the dart board entirely which is the part that is so frustrating – they’re smart enough and yet there appears to be a barrier to go further than the surface level analysis they provide. I keep watching it because like a broken clock they’re correct twice a day.

    I guess they’re better than ‘Meet the Press’ where talking heads ramble on about the ‘far left’ yet never define what they even mean by that term – treating trans people with respect and dignity is now far left? the idea that people shouldn’t go bankrupt when getting healthcare is considered far left? that workers should be represented on the boards of corporations through their union is considered far left? I sometimes wonder how so many of these dullards are employed in the first place – are they just employed to be rage bait to get an audience who hate watches them every week?

    On Monday this week I’m going to give Microsoft 365 Business a try – either going all in or Exchange Online Plan 2 because I’ve already got a consumer account (that makes use of Microsoft 365 for Family paid by mum) so does it make sense to setup a Microsoft 365 Business account which will be my main account and use the consumer account for the Phone Link application. Much pondering – something I appear to have been doing for almost at this rate but I want to make sure that whatever the decision I go with that it is well thought out.

  • Nights are getting warmer.

    Went for my nightly walk and tonight I cracked a sweat for the first time given how cold it has been for the last few months I found that even when wearing a sweatshirt I still didn’t get hot enough to start sweating when on a walk. Getting closure to summer so I’ll finally give myself a haircut if it starts to become to uncomfortable as the weather gets better and the average temperature rises. Two more days to go and then the weekend but I am really looking forward to the two weeks I have scheduled for annual leave over Christmas because goodness knows I want just a couple of weeks where I don’t have to do a single thing or worry about anything.

    The one thing that I have really taken a liking to has been the use of winget from the terminal prompt – the ability to perform software updates. It is the one thing I did as soon as I setup my laptop I opened up a terminal window with administration privileges, winget update and then installed all the updates. It is one of the benefits that came with Windows 11. Personally I cannot work out where all the negativity regarding Windows 11 comes from having used WIndows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and even NT 4. Compared to the previous versions it is the least problematic and the most robust as so long as you don’t do something stupid like install anti-cheat that worms its way into the kernel resulting in instability or making ‘tweaks’ to the system because some blow hard on YouTube who has enough knowledge to be dangerous but not enough to be useful is giving out tips that are the equivalent of old wives tales.

    I’ve been reading up regarding the Qualcomm X2 and it is interesting the announcement made during September however it won’t appear in products until 2026 and then pair that up with the recent restructuring of the Windows team (link). I was listening the Windows Central podcast on YouTube and one of the hosts was unsure as to why the team was divided in the first place. I don’t have any secret knowledge but I would hazard to guess that the move of having the Azure team taking care of the Windows core has more to do with wanting to have a rock solid core on which end user facing functionality could be built. In other words it came from a place of good intentions but the problem is that the line of demarcation between the core and the end user facing is difficult especially when end user facing functionality is dependent on features being present in the core of the operating system.

    How does this relate back to Qualcomm X2, Microsoft will need to add support for the new chip not to mention the rumours of an N1X coming from nVidia and then there is the whole x86 working group. I bring up the x86 working group because they’ve agreed on APX, FRED and AVX 10.2 (link). One thing to keep in mind is that APX and FRED have been getting worked on for several years and AVX 10.2 is part of the larger focus of cleaning up the AVX mess so that both Intel and AMD are on the same page. I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up seeing either Nova Lake or Zen 6 or maybe a release after that bring that into compliance. Given that FRED for example has been worked on for years along with APX I wouldn’t be surprised that AMD and Intel have been working behind the scenes – end of the day there is no point is pushing the technology if you’re the only one using it. This is the reason why I’m in no hurry about getting a desktop – I want to wait for those big improvements to be made available so it makes the investment worthwhile rather than buying what exists today.

    I’ve installed Microsoft Edge 141 and everything is going well. I am tempted to maybe giving Edge along with Microsoft 365, More leaked builds of One UI 8.5 which makes me wonder whether they’re a leak or whether Samsung is doing a vibe check about what end users want to see in a future update.

  • Getting closer to spring.

    Finished work tonight at 10pm and went for my walk – temperature outside was 13°C so it wasn’t uncomfortably cold and apart from a bit of drizzle I went for a 17.4km walk tonight where I completed it in around 2 hours and 40 minutes. I like to keep track of the speed I walk at so then I get a decent work out rather than dawdling. I came back home, heated up something to warm me up before jumping into bed to watch some YouTube videos before heading off to sleep.

    There are reports of 25H2 being made available to some people but I haven’t been offered it so I have a feeling it may not appear until after patch Tuesday when it arrives 8 October NZ time. While I had some spare time I hooked up my old bluray player to my laptop to see whether it is all working and everything worked perfectly with Videolan (the release candidate for ARM64 native) so I’m a happy chap so far. I still keep buying music on CD so I keep it around so then I can rip the music to FLAC then back it up to the cloud.

    Regarding the whole government shut down in the United States – need I remind people that Republicans have a majority in the upper house, lower house and presidency, and there is nothing stopping from the senate majority leader from suspending the filibuster and pass the budget with a simple majority. The simple fact of the matter is the fact that the ‘big beautiful bill’ is a disaster and Republicans want Democrats to sign onto it so then they can spread the responsibility for the fall out of the bill as wide as possible. That is how little the Republicans believe in their ‘big beautiful bill’ – by virtue of the refusal to suspend the filibuster and pass it via a simple majority tells anyone with an IQ above room temperature that they’re not wanting to actually take the responsibility of being the government of the day seriously.

  • Not today Satan.

    Work today was uneventful apart from one particular customer who refused to listen to an explanation I gave – at some point you have to say ‘not today satan’ and end the call. If you’re unable to accept something after having explained to you 3 times then the problem can be found in the mirror – you made a choice and you cannot accept the outcome of that choice. Part of being an adult is the freedom to make a choice but with that freedom of choice comes the responsibility for the outcome of the choice whether the outcome is good or bad. Oh a side note, if you don’t understand something then maybe don’t do it and then blame everyone else but yourself when the outcome isn’t what you wanted (a variation on the Warren Buffet idea of “don’t invest into something you don’t understand”).

    Chrome 141 was released today and I noticed a slight improvement in performance but nothing earth shattering but nothing broke along with uBlock Origin Lite ticking along without any problems. The uBlock Origin Lite finally updated itself on Microsoft Edge but the update to version 141 will probably either come on Friday or Saturday New Zealand time. Next week on Tuesday will be the release of the next patch tuesday however I have been keeping an eye on Windows 11 build 26220 which makes me wonder whether 25H2 based on 26200 is released and then we’ll see 26220 be made available as an optional feature update.

    Unifi Gateway 4.4.4 has made its way to the early release which makes me wonder whether we’ll see 4.3.1 release skipped in favour of 4.4.4 given that there are reports of issues DNS resolving issues when there is high demand being placed on it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up skipping it in favour of releasing it which will bring it up to date with the other product line up. Funny enough I logged into my Unifi cloudkey and found that it had automatically updated itself to 4.4.2.

  • Back to work on Wednesday.

    I had a good sleep in today and then went to mum’s place for dinner along with picking up some groceries for the next couple of weeks. For the last couple of weeks I have fallen out of a routine so I’m happy to get back into a routine tomorrow – got some extra fibre I can add to my chia seeds mixture I have with yoghurt for my meals with the fibre adding extra ‘bulk’ to keep my full for longer. I also need to get back into a good routine when it comes to exercise as well – a good night sleep tonight followed by taking it one day at a time should result in me getting back into a good routine.

    Either tomorrow or the next day there will be the release of Chrome 141 and I noticed the preview of the September 2025 patch Tuesday has been made available today (link) and next week it’ll probably be made available as the patch Tuesday. No major features, boring and predictable is exactly how I like it. Another interesting thing the WECG are working on is a WPT style testing framework for the extension framework which should hopefully mean that the implementation of the extension can be tested and pick up on implementation bugs so that the issues can be fixed in a timely manner and any holes in the standard that may cause compatibility issues can also be addressed.

    I’ve been watching videos on YouTube regarding opinion polling around Trump, his administration and the Republican Party – the problem I have is the degree of copium being consumed by liberals, progressives, left wing, convincing themselves that poor polling numbers equal support for Trump is imploding. I understand the instinct of searching high and low for positive news given the avalanche of bad news that is out there but I don’t think anyone benefits from failing to have clear eyes when viewing the information more in depth.

    Firstly it is possible for a politician or a party to have low approval numbers but it does not necessarily translating to a boost in the poll numbers of the other party. For example, if I completed a survey based on my view regarding the Labour led government for the prior two terms you would have assumed, based on my negative feedback, that I was going to vote for the other major parties and yet I turned out and voted Chris Hipkins for my local MP and Greens for my party vote. Yes, I was disappointed in the previous two terms but that doesn’t mean that I therefore will vote National, Act or NZ First. How many people who said they have a negative opinion on Trump, his administration and the Republicans necessarily translates to “and therefore I am going to vote Democratic up and down the ticket”. How do we know this? because they ask the follow up question, “would this have changed your vote in 2024”, and a sizeable number of those surveyed said that it wouldn’t change their vote.

    Secondly, give how easily these voters were to be fooled into voting for Trump and the Republican Party what are the chances that they’ll get easily fooled again? need I remind people that 2 years after 8 years of war and an economic implosion under George W Bush the average American gave the Republican Party a majority in both houses in the mid term as well as flipping the state houses to give the Republican Party a majority in those states which then allowed them to rewrite the electorate map to favour their party. The fact that, even after 8 years of disastrous policies that the American public gave the Republicans a second chance 2 years after Obama rescued the economy from certain ruin tells me that there is a sizeable number of Americans who are completely disconnected from reality.

    While I’m on a rant, don’t get me started on ‘cancel culture’ given that when it was the Republicans and the George W Bush administration that went after people who weren’t 100% onboard with invading Iraq and Afghanistan, getting artists cancelled and losing their careers, the whole ‘freedom fries’ crap that made the rounds and other obnoxious behaviour to the point that Americans travelling abroad said they were Canadians. The same people complaining about ‘cancel culture’ were quite happy to do it when George W Bush was president and they were pretending to be ‘real men from Texas’. Can we please stop with the nonsense that the right wing care about freedom of speech – they have never cared about freedom of speech and only care about freedom of speech when people push back against right wing BS because their definition of freedom of speech is “I want to be able to say whatever I want and for to be left unchallenged”.

    What is the right wing source of ‘cancel culture’? some rando on Tiktok with purple hair rambling about their 27 1/2 genders with a septum ring wanting to get someone fired because their correct pronouns weren’t used. Yes, that is the basis of their whole persecution complex that Republicans parade for the world to see – randos on the internet with plenty of opinions but zero social capital or clout to actually do anything about it. This is what happens when you make the internet your whole entire existence, you convince yourself that the internet equals the real world and as a result your perception of reality is warped. As the saying goes, turn off your computer and touch grass, go out and join a club, head down to your local pub and meet some people in your community because you may find that what your see online and what happens in reality are poles apart. The algorithm is setup to show you the most obnoxious content to get you forever doom scrolling – it isn’t healthy and it warps your perception of reality.

  • A relaxing day at home.

    I love having a weekend that is zero drama and doesn’t require me to do anything more than the bare minimum. I went for a long walk last night and then came back had a small nap then woke up, went down to the supermarket to pick up a few items then came back home to have a small snooze and then I went for another walk tonight before having a shower then jumping into bed to watch some videos. It was an uneventful day – exactly the way I like it.

    After a brief period of quiet Ubiquiti have pushed out updates and early access builds for their devices – from the cloud key through to the gateway devices. The gateway (non-cloud) has been updated to 4.3.1 which has the feature parity of 4.3.9 – at the moment it is a release candidate but generally after 7 days, assuming there are no showstopper bugs, it is upgraded to a stable release then gradually rolled out. There is also an early release for the U7 access points and from what it looks like it’ll probably be the 8.2.x version that’ll end up getting released. At the moment MLO is a bit iffy (based on what I read in the comments section, and it is marked as an early access feature) so I’ve left it turned off. For me I’ve got a rock solid Wi-Fi connection from my laptop so no complaints from me.

    uBlock Origin Lite has received an update to uBlock Origin Lite 2025.928.1920 and funny enough Chrome received the update before Microsoft Edge which is a little out of the unusual. AdGuard 5.2.80 was made available for Chrome (on Edge it is still on the MV2 version but I’d say that they will move to MV3 once Microsoft no longer supports MV2). I’ve stuck with AdGuard because I’ve come across weird situations where the webpage will hang when using it where as uBlock Origin Lite doesn’t display the same sort of behaviour. I wonder whether the difference is due to uBlock Origin Lite being a pure DNR based content blocker where as AdGuard relies using its own in-house way of doing things.

  • Thank god that day is over.

    Thank goodness that day is over – having to deal with a customer who blames us for their screw up and yes I understand a person can be frustrated but when you’re a fully grown adult you should be able to first take responsibility for your screw up and secondly to control the ‘big feelings’ that you’re having in regards to what took place. After dealing with that particular individual I needed to go for a walk to work that stress out of my system so I went for a nice long walk which took me past the foreshore where I enjoyed some nice sea breeze not to mention that tonight wasn’t frigidly cold so the experience was a lot more enjoyable than in the past. While I was on my walk I dropped in to the petrol station to pick up a drink and a light nibble on my way home – had a bit of a craving for something sweet.

    Funny enough, on my way home I noticed that a lot of road work being done, the bike path being built along the train track is being built through to Melling which will link up with the new Melling interchange. Personally they need to go all the way and address the intersection where the Kennedy Good Bridge is along with the Silverstream turn off so then it is possible to have the Hutt Highway to be completely free of lights from Wellington all the way to Masterton. While I’m dreaming, how about a tunnel for vehicles and trains out to Wainuiomata (it was talked about decades ago) along with connecting up the Melling line to the Hutt Valley line at Manor Park (maybe even double track it) so that there can be an express bypass from Masterton straight into Wellington or move freight service to that line resulting in the freeing up capacity on the Hutt Valley line for more frequent service. While I’m dreaming, maybe upgrade to 25KV overhead wires then eventually electrify the whole rail network…I guess one can always dream.

  • Raining then not raining then raining again.

    Another day in paradise – working from home then as I am able to finish my shift it starts raining then it stops then it starts again and then it stops. Long story short I decided I wasn’t going to go for a walk and tempt fate so I decided to stay at home and have a quiet nice inside watching Real Time with Bill Maher along with catching up with a few other television shows. Bill Maher can be disagreeable at times but part of life is a willingness to hear the other side of the argument to understand their train of though rather than having an understanding based on a strawman.

    There have been several YouTube channels covering the leak of One UI 8.5 rearly builds but it falls inline with the plans surrounding Android 16 which was scheduled to be a two part release with the first release upgrading the underling frameworks (which is why One UI 8 was a rather a minor upgrade) then the second release (which is what One UI 8.5 is shaping up to be) being the apps and user interface changes that make use of the new underlying frameworks. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with One UI 8.5 but I’d say that when Samsung S26 is released it’ll be based on One UI 8.5 and then One UI 9.0 will be released when Android 17 is released but then again we may see One UI 9.0 being based on Android 16 and then One UI 10.0 based on Android 17.

    Whatever the case maybe we’ve pretty much hit ‘peak smartphone’ given that the platforms have matured to the point that each feature or change is about improving the quality of life when using it rather than big changes like we’ve seen in the past. A good part of it is maturity but another part of it has to do with ‘Project Mainline’ where Google are able to push out updates and upgrades to system components without having to wait for a major release. A good example of that would be the Android Run Time (ART) which receives regular improvements and bug fixes resulting in improved performance without having to wait for it to be merged into a major release.

    There was an interesting article about the Intel Ultra 200 series and how over a year there have been a series of updates in the form of microcode updates, UEFI firmware updates and compiler optimisations which have resulted in improved performance (link). It’ll be interesting to see how things progress and whether the verdict regarding the Ultra 200 series my have been different had the performance seen today been delivered on day one. With that being said, avoid the comment section of the link, the reason why I say that is because all too often ‘tech dudes’ in online forums and on social media convince themselves that something is happening happening when it is not. Intel still has the majority market share when it comes to desktops and laptops, and for most people the end user is happy with the status quo with some gravitating towards the Mac but they’re still very much the minority when you consider the global market share.

    As for Windows on ARM, it is an uphill slog – we’ve only just gotten hardware that is worth making Windows on ARM a viable choice not to mention that it wasn’t until recently that you could win32/win64 developers could recompile their apps and get them running on Windows for ARM whereas up until recently if you wanted to target Windows on ARM you had to re-write it from scratch using the Universal Windows Platform (see WIndows RT and other failed attempts). We’re seeing more software companies bring their app to Windows for ARM as the barrier to entry get to the point that it becomes “oh, so it is a compile and I can target both platforms….let’s go for it” rather than having to dedicate resources for what is still very much a niche segment. For me, I don’t use many native applications which most of what I need came with my device and native out of the box so there was no need to worry about the number of native apps (although I admit at this point I’m waiting for Nova Lake because the under the hood changes appear to be laying the ground work for making x86-64 competitive when compared to ARM64).

  • Deprogramming takes time, be patient.

    I was watching the following video on YouTube regarding food banks and there are people who take it upon themselves to punch down on those who need help. This punching down comes with the usual blaming decisions people have made as if everything bad that happens is purely the result of the decisions made in their life and that external factors have nothing to do with where one ends up in life. You can plan everything in your life perfectly, live frugally, save and invest wisely, only have the number of kids you can afford but then suddenly one of you may lose your job, an expected medical emergency deplete the savings you had put aside leaving you vulnerable to an unexpected emergency. It reminds me of a homeless women who was interviewed and how she talked about she was married with kids and a house in the suburbs only to end it losing it all. It as stark reminder of how precarious life is and how it is impossible to plan for every possible eventuality.

    The precarious situation that people find themselves in can be traced back to the late 1970s where in response to stagflation (inflation and stagnation) the neoliberal experiment was started – the shrinking of the state, the deregulation of the market and the rolling back of the rights of unions to the point that their ability to the use leverage of withholding labour to force the hand of capital to the negotiation table is severely limited. As a consequence people’s pay and productivity decoupled. The lack of income growth was partially offset by an increase in both parents working but then that didn’t keep up so people began using their savings and saving less then to keep up their standard of living people started to rely on various form of credit – personal loans, hire purchase, revolving loans, credit cards etc. The was an interesting point made by an Thom Hartman (From ‘The Thom Hartman Show’) that noted how up until the late 1970s the credit card was something that the business people would use and very few consumers had but as the wages stagnated, savings went down and banks saw an opportunity to expand their potential customer base so that now people make use of credit cards to maintain their standard of living.

    The point I’m trying to make is that even if you’re tried to do everything ‘according to the rules’ the system is ultimately stacked against you. This idea that if you’re relying on assistance, either provided by the government, charity or a charity with assistance of the government as being an example of failure then you’re taking the blame for something you had no part in creating. I sometimes wonder whether people think before they post comments like “if you can’t feed them don’t breed them’ or is this an example of people punching down and scapegoating the poor to make themselves feel good? capitalism needs to perpetual the myth of scarcity so then the working class are easier to divide and fight with each other rather than uniting around a shared common economic interest. That doesn’t absolve people of the responsibility for posting nonsense but I really do wish that people would do a bit of self reflecting rather than posting comments without reflecting on the matter before hand.

    Below is an interesting video regarding how people deprogramming a life time of indoctrination which is kind of relevant to what we see today. Eventually Trump will complete his presidential term and leave office with the big question is what happens to those who went along with Trump the whole presidency? what happens today for those who voted for Trump and are suddenly realising that the ‘good times’ of 2016 under Trump was in spite of Trump’s policies rather than because of them.

    People are going to deprogramme at different rates but the question is whether we’re going to see a genuine deconstruction and deprogramming or whether it’ll be a situation of people publicly renouncing but still holding onto the views but hide them because they’re no longer socially acceptable.? I say that because I remember the 8 years of George W Bush as president and yet it is impossible to find someone who openly admits to voting for him twice or as someone else pointed out in the video that it was impossible to admit they voted for Richard Nixon 10 years after he stepped down as president. How many are in MAGA who were in the Tea Party who were ‘Compassionate Conservatives’ who were Regan Republicans etc. basically people who believe in nothing and go with the vibes, an empty husk of a person who is what gamers would call an NPC. Such individuals going from ideology to ideology that complete contradict each other but such individuals unable to see the contradiction other than going along with what ever happens to be the dominant zeitgeist of the moment within the Republican Party.

    This is the reason why MAGA people can be suddenly against free speech after suddenly claiming to be for it, to talk about free speech yet have no idea that the first amendment is in regards to the government limiting free speech and nothing to do with your employer deciding not to continue employing you because your behaviour bought their business into disrepute. These are the same people who don’t know the difference between a publicly traded company vs. a publicly owned/state owned enterprise by claiming the first amendment covers publicly listed companies because it has public in the description. The toxic combination of arrogance and ignorance, and something tells me that many will, after Donald Trump ends up presidency, will keep holding onto such views so then the next Trump like politician can come along and tap into the psyche of such individuals. I wish that things would change and what bought Trump to power was a flash in the pan but unfortunately I don’t see the mindset that got him into power and maintained his popularity with his base, in spite of all the bad economic news, changing any time soon.

  • An interesting day to day.

    Rather uneventful day at work followed by a brisk walk – I decided to have a shorter walk tonight because I wasn’t in the mood for a longer one but I always like to make sure that I get out of the house and get some exercise after sitting on my backside all day. Anyway, I went for my walk, came back home and then jumped into the shower and now I’m relaxing in bed watching some YouTube videos followed by catching up on the local, national and international news before I head off to sleep.

    Qualcomm have announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite which will be shipping in 2026 (link) with the interesting part being that they showed off not just laptops but also mini PCs. It appears that Qualcomm have decided to start moving up from portables to mini PCs which make me wonder how far away are we from workstations and servers given that the Oryon processor was originally designed for the server. Although nVidia is linking up with Intel given that there are many systems and workflow designed around the x86-64 architecture I wouldn’t be surprised if the long term goal is to to have their bases covered by also having their own offering in the ARM space so that whichever architecture ends up coming out on top they end up winning either way.

    I kind of wonder whether the delay with the shipping of the nVidia ARM based computer has to do with Windows given that I see Adobe working to get their own software on ARM for Window with plugins of Photoshop for example making use of CUDA so it would serve as a good incentive to provide support for nVidia’s own platform on WIndows as well. It makes me wondering whether we’ll see another big push for ARM64 and Windows when Windows 11 26H2 is released next year for the 2700/2800 series which probably includes many under the hood changes to support new ARM architecture not to mention working to bring more native applications to Windows. For me I would love to see dbpoweramp made available for ARM because at the moment it is available for macOS on ARM64 but only on WIndows 11 for x86-64 – I’m hoping that with the drop of support for 32bit Windows that we may see a version for ARM64.

    I’m still holding off getting a desktop because there is a rumoured Arrow Lake refresh but then again the next big upgrade after the Arrow Lake refresh is Nova Lake with the interesting piece I found in an article (link):

    AMD and Intel are planning several innovations to the x86 architecture. They joined forces in fall 2024 to form the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (EAG). According to a post by AMD Vice President Robert Hormuth on LinkedIn, the x86 partners have agreed on FRED, AVX10 and APX, among other things.

    Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) is an updated concept for processing interrupts. AVX10 and the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) reorganize the AVX versions and bring, among other things, twice as many registers. Intel’s Nova Lake, which is expected to arrive at the end of 2026 as the Core Ultra 400 for LGA1954 boards, could be the first Intel CPU with APX and AVX10.2.

    It appears that it is going to require Microsoft to make changes to the Windows kernel to support APX and FRED but hopefully it should mean some of the hairy parts of the x86-64 are going to be gradually replaced overtime with maybe Nova Lake and Zen agreeing on the architectural changes. Linux has already started working on it (link) so I wouldn’t be surprised that Microsoft if Microsoft has been busily working on it behind the scenes given the close relationship they have with Intel and AMD to ensure that when Windows 11 26H2 is launched that these technologies are supported out of the box.