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The holidays seem to come around just a little bit earlier and get a bit busier each year. This year, make the holidays great and get more done with a new Windows 11 PC and Copilot in Windows—your AI-powered, intelligent assistant available right from your fingertips. Designed to accelerate your tasks and help you be more creative and a whole lot more efficient, you’ll be more productive than you ever thought possible. Need help creating your holiday menu? Copilot in Windows1 can do that and even create your grocery list. Building a festive holiday party invitation? Powerful creator tools make it easier and faster to bring your ideas to life. How about gift ideas for everyone on your list? Get it done faster with Bing Chat—it’s where...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2700 (KB5031452) to the Beta Channel. REMINDER: All Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel will now be on the same build (Build 22635.xxxx) via an enablement package. For Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel who want to be the first to get features gradually rolled out to you, you can turn ON the toggle (shown in the image below) to get the latest updates as they are available via Settings > Windows Update. Over time, we will increase the rollouts of features to everyone with the toggle turned on. Should you keep this toggle off, new features will gradually be rolled out to your device over time once they are ready. Turn on the toggle to get the latest...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25987 to the Canary Channel. REMINDER: As builds released to the Canary Channel are “hot off the presses,” we will offer limited documentation for builds flighted to the Canary Channel including documenting only the most significant and highly impactful known issues. Please note that we will not publish a blog post for every flight – only when new features are available in a build. What’s new in Build 25987 Changes and Improvements [General] During setup (OOBE), when you need to connect to a network and there's no Wi-Fi drivers, you'll be given an option to press an "Install Drivers" button to install drivers you have previously downloaded. You will see...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23580 to the Dev Channel. Changes and Improvements [Copilot in Windows*] Starting with Build 23580 in the Dev Channel, users with local accounts will be able to access Copilot in Windows for a limited number of queries before needing to sign in. [Windows Share] We have significantly improved nearby share transfer speed for users on same network. Before these changes, users had to be on the same private network but now users just have to be on the same network, which could be public or private. You can quickly turn on nearby share via Quick Settings and simply right-click on a local file in File Explorer, choose “Share”, and choose to share to a device...

Support for Microsoft Edge WebView2 on Xbox has been a top ask from our WebView2 and Xbox media app developers, and we're happy to announce that WebView2 is now available on Xbox too! On Xbox, customers like to watch their favorite media content in addition to playing games. Thanks to the support of WebView2 on Xbox, media app developers can migrate from the EdgeHTML WebView, which brings significant improvements such as: Support for modern web features: WebView2 enables Xbox app developers to use modern web APIs in their applications. Better performance. Better remote debugging experience. Microsoft MakeCode is one of the first Xbox apps to use WebView2 in their production app. Microsoft MakeCode is a free online computing education...