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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22504 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We’ve expanded the 13 themes for the touch keyboard to other input experiences, including IMEs, the emoji panel, and voice typing. We have also added the ability for personalized...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22494 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We are beginning to roll out the ability to mute or unmute your microphone from the Taskbar starting with Microsoft Teams. This build includes a good set of fixes for some impactful...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We are beginning to slowly rollout a new “Your Microsoft account” settings page that will give you quick access to information related to your Microsoft account directly within...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.176 to the Beta Channels! We are also making Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.176 available to commercial PCs in the Release Preview Channel. Please see this blog post for all the details. Changes and...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.160 to everyone in the Dev and Beta Channels! IMPORTANT REMINDER: If you are in the Dev Channel, now would be the right time to consider switching to the Beta Channel if you want to stay on more stabilized...

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...

The C#/WinRT team is excited to announce our latest release, which includes a preview of C#/WinRT authoring with the latest C#/WinRT NuGet package, as well as updates to the .NET 5.0 SDK with the .NET February update. Since our last blog post on C#/WinRT v1.0, we have some new features to show...

Introduction Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings in order to access these APIs. In C#, this is...

Today, we're releasing the first preview of x64 emulation for ARM64 devices to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel starting with the Build 21277. It can be installed on Windows 10 on ARM PCs by following the instructions as explained in this blog post. When we first launched Windows 10 on ARM in...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting today, we are giving Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. These builds will be offered as...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20270 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Other updates for Insiders File Skill in Cortana You can now use Cortana on your PCs to translate their thoughts into direct actions to open and find files...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20262 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Fixes We fixed an issue resulting in certain apps launching unexpectedly transparent in recent builds, with no content visible. We fixed an issue where old...

Today is the official GA release for .NET 5, and along with it we are excited to share the latest updates with our recent release of C#/WinRT version 1.0. C#/WinRT provides WinRT projection support for .NET 5 based apps. The Windows SDK leverages this technology and is now integrated with the...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20251 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Updates for developers The Windows SDK is now flighting continuously with the Dev Channel. Whenever a new OS build is flighted to the Dev Channel, the...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20246 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting with today’s build, Windows Insiders will notice that the name of the branch we are releasing builds from has changed to FE_RELEASE. Just like we did back in May...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20241 Introducing theme-aware splash screens for apps Building on theme-aware tiles in Start, we’re introducing theme-aware splash screens for...

Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Edge WebView2 for Win32 C/C++ is generally available and ready for use in production applications! With today’s announcement, we are officially releasing a forward-compatible WebView2 SDK along with production-ready WebView2 Runtime. These can be...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20236 Change Refresh Rate of your display You can now go to Settings > System > Display > Advanced display settings and change the refresh rate of your...

We have several important updates to share with the latest release of C#/WinRT. This release is feature complete for consumption scenarios, which means that all features for using our generated Windows SDK projections to call WinRT APIs are now in their final form. We expect C#/WinRT to have...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20190 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20190 New post-update experience We know that it doesn’t always feel clear what changed with a major update, or even how you can learn about and try...