Microsoft is issuing DMCA complaints to Google in regions such as Japan, asking the search giant to take down search results pointing to articles linking to the leaked "Windows 11" ISOs.
Doesn’t new Windows always ‘leak’ before release? The same thing happened with Windows Longhorn before Vista got out, I think even several successive builds leaked then. If I am not mistaken, Windows 8 had similar leaks of its beta builds. This is either a mass public testing (most likely, with as wide hardware diagnostics being collected as possible during this period), or an elaborate marketing gimmick to gather user feedback around the interface changes.
So it’s probably real then
Doesn’t new Windows always ‘leak’ before release? The same thing happened with Windows Longhorn before Vista got out, I think even several successive builds leaked then. If I am not mistaken, Windows 8 had similar leaks of its beta builds. This is either a mass public testing (most likely, with as wide hardware diagnostics being collected as possible during this period), or an elaborate marketing gimmick to gather user feedback around the interface changes.