Microsoft may have let slip the final name for its big Windows 11 22H2 feature update

What you need to know

• The name of Microsoft’s big Windows 11 feature update might have been revealed.
• An update to the Get Started app now refers to it as the Windows 11 2022 Update.
• This release will still ship as version 22H2, likely next month.

We might finally have a name for Microsoft’s upcoming big OS update for Windows 11 thanks to a recent update of the Get Started app, which now refers to the version 22H2 release as the “Windows 11 2022 Update.” Not very creative, but it gets the message across and is slightly different from the previous update naming scheme for Windows 10, which had settled on a “Month + Year Update” naming format.

Of course, now that Microsoft has decided to only ship one major feature update for Windows 11, there’s no need to include the month in the name of the update. What’s more, we understand that the 2022 Update will be the first and last major OS client upgrade for Windows 11, with the company now moving to a new “Moments” engineering effort that will allow the company to ship new features outside of big platform releases.