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Microsoft released a trio of Windows 11 Insider updates today, pushing small-but-important feature expansions and quality polish across the Canary, Dev, and Beta Channels. The changes are focused, practical, and in many cases are continuations of work Microsoft has been rolling out since last...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1619 to the Canary Channel today, and while the headline items look familiar—expanded cross‑device continuity, richer accessibility controls, and an update to Windows Hello—the real story is how these incremental pieces fit into...

Microsoft has quietly added a one‑click network speed test to the Windows 11 taskbar in the Release Preview channel — but it’s important to understand that the new control is a launcher that opens a browser‑hosted speed‑test widget (currently surfaced via Bing) rather than a native, in‑OS...

Microsoft is quietly testing a string of small but practical Windows 11 features that, taken together, show a continued focus on everyday convenience rather than only flashy AI headlines—think a dedicated emoji taskbar icon, richer Snipping Tool controls (including trimming and GIF export)...

Microsoft shipped two closely timed Insider updates on February 17–18, 2026 that together deliver a mix of practical polish, resiliency tools, and one eyebrow‑raising experiment in commercial prompts inside core OS surfaces: Beta-channel enablement package KB5077223 (Build 26220.7859) and...

Microsoft has quietly shipped a maintenance-focused Beta Channel update — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (KB5077223) — that pairs a handful of reliability fixes with a notable user-facing test: a Microsoft 365 upgrade prompt surfaced in the Settings app for some Microsoft 365 Family...

Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7859 (KB5077223) to the Beta Channel, delivering a small but focused set of reliability fixes and a single new account-related suggestion that will be gradually enabled for Insiders who opt in to receive the fastest preview...

Microsoft’s download infrastructure is once again denying scripted access to Windows 11 Insider ISOs, leaving Rufus — the widely used open‑source USB creation utility — unable to fetch certain preview builds and forcing power users and IT pros to revert to manual downloads or Microsoft’s Media...

Microsoft has quietly folded a longtime defender's toolkit into the core of Windows 11: Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature in Insider Preview builds, and Build 28020.1611 (KB5077221) also brings a small but practical OneDrive sharing polish and a...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7755 (KB5077201) to the Beta Channel, bringing a compact set of Emoji 16.0 additions and a highly practical system-level option to control pan and tilt on supported cameras directly from Settings — changes that are small on...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flights continue to nudge Windows 11 toward a more modern, media-friendly desktop: this week’s Dev and Beta Channel builds introduce native webcam controls that finally give users granular access to camera behavior, and they also expand emoji support with a staged...

Microsoft has begun shipping a native, optional implementation of Sysmon inside Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a change that promises to simplify deployment, bring Sysmon telemetry into the Windows servicing model, and shift how enterprise defenders collect host-level event signals...

Microsoft has quietly folded Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals system-monitoring tool — into Windows 11 as an optional, inbox feature, delivering it through Insider preview builds and the Windows servicing pipeline rather than as a separate Sysinternals download. That change, which appears...

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build takes a pragmatic step toward stabilizing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) on PCs, addressing a recurring class of app compatibility issues while leaving one known problem still under observation by the Insider engineering team. The...

Microsoft quietly pushed the same January 16 Beta-channel package to the Dev Channel this week — a matched cumulative update identified as KB5074157 that surfaces as Windows 11 build 26220.7653 — leaving some Insiders asking why Dev got the Beta build several days late and what that timing means...

Microsoft has finally given administrators a supported way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the escape hatch is tightly controlled, limited to Insider Preview builds, and intentionally designed as a one‑time, surgical cleanup rather than a...

Microsoft’s January Insider build quietly delivers three small-but-significant developments that matter to administrators, power users and everyday Windows consumers: a narrowly scoped Group Policy that can uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app, expanded table and streaming-AI support in...

Microsoft has pushed a small maintenance flight to the Windows Insider Canary Channel — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1371 (KB5073097) — that focuses on a handful of targeted stability and UX fixes for Start, File Explorer, input settings and an elevated Windows Terminal hang, while...

Microsoft has pushed a small maintenance flight to the Windows Insider Canary Channel today — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1371 (KB5073097) — delivering a handful of targeted fixes for Start, File Explorer, input settings, and an elevated Windows Terminal hang, while calling out one...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview lands as a targeted, practical release: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7535 (delivered as KB5072046) expands Copilot’s accessibility reach by integrating Copilot-powered image descriptions into Narrator across more devices, and it gives IT...