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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...

Windows Insiders received a cothepact but consequential preview package this month: KB5074157 (Build 26220.7653), a cumulative preview that briimages a string of reliability fixes to the shell and Settings while surfacing a handful of visible polish items — most notably WinUI-based Account...

Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7653 (KB5074157) to the Beta Channel on January 16, 2026, a focused preview quality update that brings WinUI‑based modernized dialogs for Settings > Accounts > Other users, faster Copilot suggestions in Click to Do on eligible...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7653 (KB5074157) into the Dev Channel — the same 25H2 enablement-package build Microsoft previously published to Beta — and with it shipped a modest set of visible polish, Copilot-era experience tweaks, and a broad collection of...

Microsoft has quietly added native support for .webp images as desktop backgrounds in the Insider channels, a small but practical tweak that removes a long-standing friction point for users who collect web-sourced wallpapers — while the more eye-catching idea of native video wallpapers remains a...

Microsoft has quietly restored a small but meaningful piece of modern web compatibility to the Windows shell: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7653 (KB5074157) now accepts .webp images directly as desktop backgrounds, removing a long-standing friction point for users who source wallpapers...

Microsoft’s latest Insider Preview for Windows 11 tightens visual seams and ships a batch of small but meaningful fixes that push the OS toward a more consistent, modern look—while reminding enterprises and power users that these changes remain staged, gated, and not yet suitable for broad...

PCMag’s “All About AI” framing arrives at a moment when the PC market is redefining itself around on‑device intelligence, and the result is a new purchasing calculus: raw CPU/GPU numbers still matter, but NPUs, TOPS, and Copilot+ integration now shape which machines deliver genuinely different...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly moving closer to the center of the Windows desktop: recent Windows Insider preview builds contain inert UI resources and a faint, hover-only hotspot in File Explorer tied to an internal control labeled AppAssistantLaunch and human-facing strings such as “Chat with...

Microsoft’s in‑Explorer Copilot experiment has moved from rumor to tangible preview artifacts: hidden UI strings and inert controls in recent Windows Insider builds point to a “Chat with Copilot” entry embedded directly in File Explorer, paired with a “Detach Copilot” affordance that implies a...