preview updates

Microsoft’s February preview update for Windows 11 made two small-but-visible changes that matter to everyday users: the taskbar battery icon has been reworked with colour cues and a visible percentage option, and the redesigned Start menu is being flipped on for more devices. At the same time...

Microsoft has quietly rebuilt the Windows 11 Start menu into something that finally feels useful again — and if you don’t want to wait for Microsoft’s staged rollout, there’s a straightforward (but unsupported) way to turn it on today using the community tool ViVeTool. Background: why this...

Microsoft has issued a preview (non‑security “C” release) cumulative update — KB5014668 — for Windows 11 (original release), a targeted package that patches a range of reliability and compatibility problems including a race condition that could block upgrades and a pair of game‑affecting bugs...

Microsoft’s latest optional preview for Windows 11, KB5034204, landed with promises to fix search, Bluetooth and ZIP handling — and promptly produced a fresh wave of user-reported breakages that range from stubborn install failures to a crippled shell (taskbar, File Explorer and desktop...