windows 11 canary

FAT32 remains the universal “lowest common denominator” for USB compatibility — and in 2026 the basic how-to hasn’t changed, but the landscape around how you can create FAT32 volumes has. This article boils down what you need to know to reliably format a USB drive to FAT32 on both Windows and...

Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem is busy this week: Microsoft pushed a small but meaningful Canary‑channel maintenance build that smooths a handful of daily friction points, the first cumulative for January 2026 remedies an odd battery regression tied to Neural Processing Units (NPUs) and prepares...

Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel drop — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1362 (KB5073095) — extends the company’s experimental platform work with a mix of visible user-facing features and a broad set of reliability fixes aimed at gamers, Copilot+ devices, and power users testing handheld...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1362 (KB5073095) to the Canary Channel, a compact but consequential flight that widens the Xbox-led Full Screen Experience, tightens Copilot-driven interactions, and delivers a raft of File Explorer, Settings, and peripheral refinements...

Microsoft has quietly pushed the first public preview of Windows 11 version 26H1 into the Windows Insider Canary channel — but it isn’t the broad consumer feature update many were expecting. Instead, Build 28000 is a platform-only release intended to enable specific next‑generation silicon and...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a Canary-channel build that relabels Windows 11 as version 26H1 — but the company says this is not the next mainstream feature update; it’s a targeted, platform-only branch intended to enable next‑generation Arm and AI‑centric silicon such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2...

Microsoft has pushed a fresh Canary-channel Windows 11 preview that focuses squarely on reliability fixes rather than flashy new features, addressing a trio of painful user-facing bugs — a Settings app crash when viewing drive information, Windows Hello PIN authentication failures after...

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’s latest Canary-channel preview for Windows 11 folds a long‑requested developer convenience into the OS while quietly changing how legacy runtimes are delivered: Build 27965 adds a small, open‑source command‑line editor called Edit (invoked simply by typing edit in Terminal) and...

Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel flight lands with a handful of practical UI tweaks and quality fixes: Build 27959 introduces movable on‑screen hardware indicators, an OS‑level en/em dash typing shortcut, the ability to pin favorite apps in the Windows Share UI, and a raft of under‑the‑hood...

Today’s Canary-channel release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27954 is a focused maintenance flight that fixes a handful of platform regressions while flagging a small set of high‑risk known issues that Insiders and developers must weigh before installing on active hardware. Background /...

Here is a summary of the official changes and new features in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27898 (Canary Channel) as announced by Microsoft: Highlights & New Features 1. Taskbar Icon Scaling Taskbar icons now automatically scale down when the taskbar becomes crowded, allowing more apps to...