Windows 11 - News, Updates & Discussions

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A new era of the PC

The last two years have had a profound and durable impact on how we live our lives, with the PC playing a more meaningful role than ever. Recently a friend reflected that he never would have expected that his eight-year-old son would become proficien

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What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2022

Building off the Windows 11 momentum Panos shared last week, we want to take a moment and share a little bit on what’s coming for the Windows Insider Program

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• The Dev Channel will be for long lead work from our engineers with features and experiences that may never get released as we try out different concepts and get feedback.
• The Beta Channel will be previewing experiences that are closer to what we will ship to our general customers. Because the Dev and Beta Channels represent parallel development paths from our engineers, there may be cases where features and experiences show up in the Beta Channel first.
• We will deliver updates to features and experiences in builds from the Dev and Beta Channels by releasing Feature, Web, and Online Service Experience Packs on top of these builds too.

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Cumulative update (KB5010386) for Windows 11 now available for download.

February 8, 2022—KB5010386 (OS Build 22000.493) - Microsoft Support

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Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.526 to Beta and Release Preview Channels

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.526 (KB5010414)to Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview Channels. This update includes the following improvements: We fixed an issue that occurs when Window

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Today, we’re excited to announce new experiences for Windows 11 are starting to become available, including an Amazon Appstore preview available in the U.S., Taskbar improvements and two redesigned apps: Media Player and Notepad.

Bringing you closer to what you love with new experiences in Windows 11

As the PC continues to play a more meaningful role in our lives, we will continue to evolve Windows 11 as a connection point between people, ideas and creations

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What’s new in Build 22557

• Create and curate folders in the pinned apps area of Start
• Introducing Do Not Disturb and Focus
• Live Captions
• Improving Quick Access in File Explorer
• See your OneDrive storage in File Explorer
• New Touch Gestures
• Improving Snap Layouts
• More sustainable power settings and recommendations
• Task Manager Redesign & Efficiency Mode
• Introducing a new PowerShell module to provision language and language related features

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR Windows Insiders will notice that the name of the branch we are releasing builds fro

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Windows 11 is now on nearly 20% of PCs, according to AdDuplex

AdDuplex has released its monthly Windows usage report, showing that Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 21H2 are on over 40% of PCs.

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The adoption of Windows 11 seems very rapid!