Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...
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Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...
Microsoft’s public preview of a self-service quota management experience for Azure App Service brings a long-requested level of transparency and control to scaling web apps — a dedicated App Service Quota blade in the Azure portal that shows usage per SKU, lets teams request new limits inline...
Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant tool into public preview that aims to simplify one of the messiest tasks in datacenter life: converting and migrating virtual machines from VMware vCenter/ESXi to Microsoft’s Hyper-V infrastructure using a built-in Windows Admin Center extension called...
GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from...
Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...
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Here is a summary of the key changes, fixes, and known issues in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5742 (KB5064075) released to the Beta Channel for Windows 11, version 24H2:
Key Changes and Improvements (Gradually rolling out with toggle ON)
Settings
Time & Language: More time and...
Ready to dive into the Windows 11 Preview patch notes that just dropped? On November 21, 2024, Microsoft rolled out KB5046732, featuring OS Builds 22621.4541 and 22631.4541. This preview update is all about refining your Windows 11 experience with new features, fixes, and optimizations—but note...
The following is pasted from Windows update 3-26-2024;
"The new end date is June 24, 2025 for Windows 11, version 22H2 Enterprise, Education, IoT Enterprise, and Enterprise multi-session editions. Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions of version 22H2 will receive...
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Microsoft has just released a new update for Windows 11 (version 22H2). This update, KB5023778 (OS Build 22621.1485), brings some exciting new features and improvements to the system. Here's a quick rundown of what you can expect:
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Notifications for Microsoft accounts will be...
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25281 to the Dev Channel.
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Starting with this build, we are trying out improvements to Windows Spotlight and introducing a visual update to the graphics settings page. And of course, a handful of fixes too...
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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1028 and Build 22623.1028 (KB5021866) to the Beta Channel.
Build 22623.1028= New features rolling out.
Build 22621.1028 = New features off by default.
December 2022 Bug Bash: Starting tomorrow December 7th...
Greetings,
some people have been reverting back from 2022-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems (KB5017380)
is this update safe to install
Regards,
M
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22538 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
This build includes some updates to the voice access feature introduced in Build 22518 for Insiders to try!
In addition to a good set of changes and improvements, this build includes...
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22518 to the Dev Channel.
TL;DR
This build will not be offered to ARM64 PCs due to an issue that causes these devices to rollback when attempting to update to this build. We’re working on a fix.
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Windows 11 Insider Preview 10.0.22000.51 (co_release)
This appears to be the first Insider Preview version of Windows 11 appearing on the Dev Channel of the Insider Program.
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you'll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally transition your app to running with native speed on...
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