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Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8085 (KB 5079483) is a small-but-telling Dev Channel release: it resumes the Pointer Indicator accessibility rollout, extends Windows Magnifier to protected content, and introduces a modernized Feedback Hub that looks designed to make Microsoft’s internal...

Microsoft is shipping Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8068 (KB 5079464) to the Dev Channel today, and this release is notable for two policy-focused changes that will matter to IT administrators and driver vendors as much as to enthusiasts testing new desktop conveniences: a dynamic...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flights continue to reshape the Windows 11 desktop: the Dev Channel’s Build 26300.7939 (KB5077243) tightens batch-file security and expands shared audio, while the Canary Channel’s 28020-series keeps adding small but consequential UX features — camera pan/tilt, a...

Microsoft has pushed a small-but-focused Dev Channel update — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7877 (KB5077232) — that continues the 26300-series platform work while rolling out a handful of practical user-facing refinements, most notably a tweak to the context menu for executable files...

Microsoft today pushed a compact but consequential Dev‑channel preview — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7733 (KB5074178) — that stitches a handful of targeted fixes and one major security/visibility upgrade into the 25H2 enablement stream while continuing Microsoft’s controlled, staged...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7674 (delivered as KB5074170) to the Dev Channel, a maintenance-focused flight that restores several File Explorer behaviors while simultaneously advancing the Dev servicing baseline into the new 26300 series — a move that changes how...

Microsoft has pushed a flurry of Insider previews across all three major channels today, moving the Dev stream into a new build series and issuing maintenance updates for Beta and Release Preview testers — a coordinated roll that closes a short-lived migration window for Dev Insiders and brings...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7674 to the Dev Channel, a platform-number jump that carries forward a focused set of fixes for Start, File Explorer, Search, Settings, and display/graphics issues while also closing the simple path for many Insiders to switch...

Today’s Dev-channel update moves the Windows 11 Insider preview forward: Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7674 (KB5074170) to the Dev Channel, advancing the Dev stream into the 26300-series and closing the immediate window that allowed Insiders to migrate from Dev to...

Microsoft quietly pushed the same January 16 Beta-channel package to the Dev Channel this week — a matched cumulative update identified as KB5074157 that surfaces as Windows 11 build 26220.7653 — leaving some Insiders asking why Dev got the Beta build several days late and what that timing means...

Microsoft today pushed a new Dev Channel cumulative to Insiders: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6972 (KB5067106), a relatively small but targeted flight that continues the 26220.xxxx Dev‑channel stream and ships a handful of new toggle‑gated experiences, quality fixes, and persistent...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new Insider preview package — KB5065786 — that surfaces a focused set of account-management refinements alongside deeper Copilot integrations and a long list of fixes and known issues, delivered as Build 26220.6690 to the Dev Channel and Build 26120.6690 to the...

Microsoft’s latest Paint update lands as a surprisingly consequential usability upgrade: a native, editable project container (.paint) and a per-tool opacity slider for Pencil and Brush tools, both of which ship to Windows Insiders now and materially change how the app fits into everyday image...

Microsoft today pushed another Dev Channel flight: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6690 (KB5065786), a focused cumulative update for Insiders running Windows 11, version 25H2, that continues the program’s push to fold Copilot-driven experiences deeper into the shell while addressing a set...

Microsoft has quietly turned one of Windows’ simplest tools into a practical entry point for everyday generative AI: Notepad on Windows 11 can now write, rewrite, and summarize text using on‑device AI on qualifying Copilot+ PCs — and Microsoft is offering that on‑device path for free without a...

Microsoft has started shipping a Notepad update for Windows 11 that brings true on‑device generative AI — including Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — to Copilot+ PCs, and those capabilities can run entirely offline without a Microsoft account or a paid subscription when executed locally on...

Microsoft has begun testing a coordinated set of feature updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest inbox apps — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — rolling them out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. These updates add a native project save for Paint, an in‑capture “Quick Markup”...

Microsoft Paint has quietly gained a Photoshop‑style workflow: Windows Insiders can now save layered, editable projects as a single .paint file and reopen them later to continue exactly where they left off, while Pencil and Brush tools gain an opacity slider for semi‑transparent strokes—changes...

Microsoft has quietly given Paint a workflow upgrade that moves the app from a quick doodle tool toward a genuinely useful, session-aware image editor: Paint can now save editable project files (.paint) and offers an opacity slider for Pencil and Brush strokes — features rolling out to Windows...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider flight quietly folds generative and assistive AI into three of the operating system’s oldest — and most widely used — utilities: Notepad, Paint and the Snipping Tool. The changes are modest on the surface but signal a broader, deliberate push to make AI part...