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Windows 11’s Canary build 28020.1611 folds two practical features into the OS: Sysmon as an inbox optional feature and a smoother OneDrive file-sharing flow, plus a small but welcome fix to the desktop watermark. The changes arrive as a controlled rollout to Insiders and signal a deliberate push...

Microsoft’s Canary channel just received another terse but consequential preview: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1611 lands with a small set of visible fixes and a major operational shift for defenders — Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature —...

Microsoft’s push to embed Copilot deeper into Windows 11 — now reaching File Explorer with right‑click AI actions, contextual summaries, and editing tools — is not just a product update; it’s a strategic bet that Microsoft is doubling down on an AI‑first vision for the operating system. That bet...

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Microsoft rolled out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7760 (KB5077202) to the Dev Channel on February 9, 2026, delivering a small set of user-facing improvements — most notably a staged reintroduction of Emoji 16.0 and native pan/tilt camera controls in Settings — while continuing to rely...

Windows 11 Insiders are finally being handed a long‑promised emoji refresh: Microsoft has started rolling Emoji 16.0 back to Insider builds this week, bringing the Unicode Consortium’s 2024 additions into the Windows 11 emoji panel after a series of starts, stops, and toggled rollouts. This...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.7760 (KB5077202) to the Dev Channel today, a small but strategically meaningful update that continues Microsoft’s pattern of shipping feature-ready binaries via enablement packages while using server-side gating to control who actually...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of the security community’s most trusted tools out of the Sysinternals download bucket and into Windows itself, delivering native Sysmon functionality as an optional Windows 11 feature that can be enabled, updated, and (crucially) supported through Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a minor—but informative—update to the Canary Channel today: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1546 (KB 5074176), a small servicing flight that fixes a specific app interaction with cloud‑backed files and includes a cosmetic desktop watermark anomaly that...

Microsoft’s latest Insider releases quietly rewire Windows 11’s security posture: the Dev channel now carries Build 26300.7733 (KB5074178) and the Beta channel Build 26220.7752 (KB5074177), and both preview packages bring a significant operational change — Sysmon is now available as an inbox...

Microsoft’s latest Beta-channel preview, delivered as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7752 (KB5074177), is a focused quality update that mixes polish, stability fixes, and a handful of staged feature rollouts — most notably the addition of built‑in Sysmon and continued Copilot-era...

Microsoft has begun public testing of what looks like a significant Windows 11 refresh: Build 26300.7674 (KB5074170) has landed in the Dev Channel and — unlike routine cumulative updates — it is being treated as the first visible milestone for the 26H2 era, bringing both deep platform work and...

Microsoft has pushed the first public preview of what it’s calling the Windows 11 26H2 era into the Dev Channel — but don’t expect a single megarelease; what landed is a platform/enablement milestone with deeper Copilot integrations, a handful of practical fixes, and meaningful implications for...

Windows 11 quietly contains more battery tools than most users realize — from a deep, technician-grade battery report you can generate in under a minute to new, hidden taskbar battery UI options being tested in Insider builds. These features give ordinary laptop owners and power users alike the...

Windows 11’s visual polishing campaign keeps creeping into the OS’ smallest corners: Microsoft is rolling out modernized, WinUI-based dialogs for Account settings and other micro‑surfaces in Insider Preview build 26220.7653 (KB5074157), alongside practical additions like native .webp wallpaper...

Microsoft has quietly made a small but welcome change to the desktop personalization pipeline: recent Insider flights now accept .webp images as first-class desktop backgrounds, removing the longstanding need to convert web-sourced wallpapers to JPG/PNG before applying them. This change appears...

Microsoft has quietly shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7670 (packaged as KB5074169) to the Beta Channel, a targeted maintenance flight that patches several recent regressions while continuing Microsoft’s Controlled Feature Rollout (CFR) approach for staged user-facing fixes and...

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 has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7670 (KB5074169) to the Beta Channel, a quiet-but-important maintenance flight that patches several recent regressions while leaving a handful of productivity-impacting issues still under investigation. Overview Today’s Beta Channel...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7653 (KB5074157) to Insiders, matching the Beta-channel preview that landed on January 16, 2026 and now appearing in the Dev Channel as well; the update delivers modest but meaningful UI modernizations, practical feature additions...