Microsoft has quietly restored a small but persistent usability gap for multi‑monitor users: with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27971 (Canary), the Notification Center and calendar flyout can now be opened from any monitor, and an opt‑in larger clock that shows seconds is available in the...
Microsoft is reintroducing a small but meaningful convenience for multi‑monitor users with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27971 in the Canary Channel: Notification Center is now functional on secondary displays and the calendar flyout can optionally show a larger clock with seconds, while a...
Microsoft's latest Canary build, Windows 11 build 27971, finally brings a long-requested convenience to multi-monitor users: the Notification Center can now be opened on secondary displays, allowing the calendar and a larger clock (including seconds) to appear on any monitor by clicking the date...
Microsoft today rolled a focused Canary-channel update that restores a long-requested multi‑monitor convenience and bundles a handful of reliability fixes for Insiders — but the flight remains distinctly experimental and should be treated as such by anyone running Canary hardware or VMs...
For years the little clock on a secondary display was a tease — visible but mute — and with the September 29, 2025 preview update Microsoft finally restored the ability to open the Notification Center and calendar flyout from any monitor in a multi‑monitor Windows 11 setup, delivering a...
Microsoft has quietly restored a small but meaningful convenience for multi‑monitor users: with the September preview update KB5065789, the Windows 11 Notification Center and calendar flyout can now be opened from the taskbar on any connected monitor — not just the primary display — restoring a...
Microsoft has restored one of the most stubbornly missing conveniences from the Windows desktop: the Notification Center and calendar flyout can now be opened from the taskbar on secondary monitors, bringing Windows 11 closer to the multi-monitor expectations power users had with Windows 10 and...
Microsoft has quietly restored one of the most irksome multi‑monitor regressions from the early days of Windows 11: the Notification Center and calendar flyout are now interactive on secondary displays, and the change is shipping in an optional September preview (KB5065789) ahead of inclusion in...
Microsoft has quietly fixed one of the most persistent annoyances for multi‑monitor users: the Notification Center and calendar flyout on Windows 11 can now be opened from any Taskbar on any monitor, not just the primary display.
Background
From the day Windows 11 shipped, power users noticed a...
Windows 11’s long-standing multi-monitor friction — the inability to open the Notification Center from a secondary display — has finally been addressed in Microsoft’s September 2025 preview update, KB5065789, which also restores an opt‑in, larger clock (including seconds) inside the Notification...
Microsoft has quietly restored a small but widely requested taskbar behavior: you can now open the Notification Center and calendar flyout from a secondary display in Windows 11, and the calendar flyout can optionally show a larger clock with seconds — delivered as part of the non‑security...
Microsoft has quietly restored a pair of long‑requested taskbar behaviors to Windows 11 — the Notification Center (and calendar flyout) can now be opened from a secondary display on multi‑monitor setups, and the larger calendar clock with seconds has returned to the Notification Center —...
Microsoft is quietly restoring a piece of the Windows 10 experience many users missed: a larger, in-your-face clock with seconds in the Notification Center — and it’s arriving alongside a set of AI shortcuts in File Explorer and new transparency controls for generative AI access in Windows 11’s...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary-flight experiment stitches small, familiar conveniences into a broader push to make generative AI an everyday part of the Windows shell: right‑click inside File Explorer and you may now see an AI actions submenu that offers visual search and one‑click image edits...
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Microsoft’s latest Insider experiments have restored a small but widely requested convenience: the Notification Center can once again show a larger clock with seconds—and that option is appearing alongside a broader set of AI-focused trials in the Canary channel.
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Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel whisper landed with a familiar mix of small UX restorations and new AI shortcuts: Insiders running the reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 are seeing AI actions in File Explorer (visual search and quick image edits), a returning Notification Center...
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Microsoft has quietly restored the little thing that annoyed a surprising number of users: the expanded clock in Notification Center can once again show seconds — and that small user-experience win arrives alongside a broader set of AI-focused experiments that put generative image actions...
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On September 8, 2025 Microsoft pushed a fresh Canary-channel flight—reported as Build 27938—that strings together a set of small-but-significant UI and AI experiments. The visible pieces are straightforward: a new “AI actions” entry in File Explorer’s right‑click menu that surfaces image edits...
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Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...
July 2025 saw a whirlwind of development activity for Windows 11, with Microsoft pushing out no fewer than seven new preview builds through the Insider Program—some aligned with the forthcoming 24H2 and 25H2 releases, others eschewing enrollment in a particular branch. For Windows enthusiasts...
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