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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 (Canary Channel) — what to know, what’s new, and whether you should install By WindowsForum Staff — August 14, 2025 Microsoft today pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 to the Canary Channel and published ISOs for this flight. The release is notable because it begins enabling several Copilot+ PC experiences in the Canary Channel and adds a redesigned “Advanced” page in Settings that surfaces options such as long-path support, virtual...

Today Microsoft published Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081) to Insiders on the Release Preview Channel for Windows 11, version 24H2, delivering a broad mix of AI-driven features, quality fixes, and platform changes that will begin rolling out to wider audiences in the coming weeks. The update surfaces notable consumer-facing additions — like AI actions inside File Explorer, a redesigned privacy prompt, and Recall improvements — alongside enterprise-focused work such as Windows Backup...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Build 22631.5837 (KB5064080) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel for Windows 11, version 23H2 — a targeted quality update that bundles a wide range of bug fixes across File Explorer, storage, IME/input, networking, Remote Desktop, Family Safety and more, and which also announces Windows Backup for Organizations as available in this flight. Background and overview Windows Insider releases in the Release Preview Channel are intended to preview...

Deep dive — Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel Published: August 14, 2025 Today Microsoft released Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel for Insiders on Windows 10, version 22H2. This flight is a relatively targeted cumulative update that bundles a mixture of fixes, a few focused component changes, and two “new!” items called out by the Windows Insider team: a licensing/networking enhancement for the Windows...

Today Microsoft pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 to the Canary Channel, and with it a clear signal of where the company is placing its engineering bets: fast-moving platform work coupled with an expanding set of Copilot+ PC experiences (and the trade-offs that come with bleeding-edge testing). The build, published on August 14, 2025, ships ISOs for manual installs and begins enabling a number of Copilot+ features for qualifying devices while also adding a handful of user-facing...

Today Microsoft pushed a new Release Preview build for Windows 11, version 24H2: Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081). At first glance this looks like another cumulative preview, but the blog post and supporting documentation show it carries a broad mix of items — from the continued staged rollout of large AI-driven features (Recall, Click to Do, AI Actions in File Explorer) to important platform changes that IT teams must plan for (the removal of PowerShell 2.0 and the general availability of...

Microsoft today pushed Windows 11 Build 22631.5837 (KB5064080) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, a targeted cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2 that bundles a set of quality fixes, device-management improvements, and a notable enterprise addition: Microsoft’s Windows Backup for Organizations appearing in the release notes as newly available to customers. Background / Overview Microsoft uses the Release Preview Channel to validate imminent releases and high‑confidence...

Today’s Canary-channel flight, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924, marks a significant push by Microsoft into earlier-stage platform experimentation — and it ships with a packed, sometimes contentious mix of AI-driven features for Copilot+ PCs, new system-level settings, app updates, and several sharp reminders about the risks of running bleeding-edge builds. Overview Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 to the Canary Channel and published downloadable ISOs for...

Oracle’s VirtualBox project has taken a major step toward making Windows on Arm a practical option for desktop virtualization, with the 7.2 development cycle bringing explicit Windows 11 ARM guest and host support, preliminary Linux 6.16 compatibility, reworked Guest Additions for Arm, and a host of GUI and driver refinements that together mark one of the most significant VirtualBox platform expansions in years. Background VirtualBox has long been a go-to cross-platform hypervisor for...

LibreOffice’s blunt charge that Microsoft is using an “artificially complex” Office XML schema as a deliberate lock‑in tool landed like a splash of cold water—and the splash matters because it exposes how fragile interoperability, user choice, and long‑term digital access really are in a world dominated by a single productivity platform. The Document Foundation (LibreOffice’s steward) argues that Microsoft’s Microsoft 365/OOXML implementation has been shaped into a behemoth of optional...

Microsoft’s plan to make Windows listen, see, and act is an engineering and product pivot of genuine consequence — but the company’s renewed faith in multimodal inputs (voice, vision, pen, touch) and pervasive on-device AI must clear two big hurdles before it can be called a success: hardware-driven fragmentation and the perennial problem of quality, security, and trust. Background / Overview Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows and Devices, has been explicit: Microsoft views the next...

Microsoft’s latest public remarks about the direction of Windows — voiced by Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, and echoed by OS-security lead David Weston — sketch a future operating system that is ambient, agentic, and multimodal: one that sees what’s on your screen, listens to the room, learns context, and uses a mix of on‑device and cloud compute to act on your behalf. That vision promises powerful productivity gains, deeper accessibility, and novel automation — but...

Tenable’s new Tenable AI Exposure bundles discovery, posture management and governance into the company’s Tenable One exposure management platform in a bid to give security teams an “end‑to‑end” answer for the emerging risks of enterprise generative AI—but what it promises and what organisations actually need to deploy safely are two different conversations. Background Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot are now embedded in everyday workflows across...

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings were a watershed moment for Azure — the company disclosed that Azure’s annual run rate has topped $75 billion, cloud revenue for the quarter rose to $46.7 billion, and Azure’s year‑over‑year growth accelerated to the high‑30s in the June quarter, while Microsoft’s backlog of contracted cloud work (RPO) ballooned into the hundreds of billions. rquarter (ended June 30) marked the first time the company provided a clear annualized revenue figure for Azure, revealing a...

Mozilla's Nightly build of Firefox has tripped over an old Windows 10 quirk: users running pre‑1803 builds (for example, 1703, 1709 or some Enterprise LTSB/LTSC variants) reported an immediate failure to launch Firefox 143 Nightly with an error complaining that api-ms-win-core-console-11-2-0.dll was missing — a symptom that, on investigation, points to a runtime API set that simply does not exist on those older Windows 10 releases rather than an intentional end‑of‑support move by Mozilla...

Microsoft’s new Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) is not just a cosmetic tweak to the recovery menu — it rethinks how Windows 11 responds to catastrophic boot failures by taking the recovery process online, automating diagnosis and remediation, and giving IT teams a far faster path out of mass-outage scenarios that once required physical access to affected machines. Background: why Quick Machine Recovery matters When millions of endpoints go down, manual triage is a non‑starter. The fallout from...

Microsoft has started handing Arm-based Windows 11 PCs a long‑requested capability: the Xbox PC app can now let eligible Arm machines download and run games locally, replacing—where permitted—the cloud‑only experience that defined Windows on Arm gaming for years. This staged Insider preview opens local installs to devices enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview via the Xbox Insider Hub and is being distributed in Xbox PC app builds beginning with version 2508.1001.27.0 (and higher). Background...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), can fail to install on enterprise endpoints when delivered via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM/MECM), producing the error code 0x80240069 and causing the Windows Update agent (wuauserv) to crash on affected clients. Background / Overview KB5063878 is the August 12, 2025 monthly cumulative security update for Windows 11, version...

Microsoft has formally put a deadline on one of the most common holdouts: Windows 11, version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving security and quality updates on November 11, 2025, forcing holdouts to move to a supported build or accept the increased risk of running an unsupported OS. Background Windows has moved to an annual feature‑update cadence with fixed servicing windows, and Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar is explicit: consumer editions (Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, Pro...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a redesigned right‑click menu for Notepad in Windows 11, bringing the long-familiar text editor into alignment with the modern, streamlined context‑menu style that Microsoft has been applying across the OS. rty has long been defined by speed, simplicity, and minimalism—traits that made it the go‑to tool for quick text edits, configuration tweaks, and copy‑paste cleaning for decades. Over the last two years Microsoft has intentionally modernized Notepad...