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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25931 to the Canary Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. 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 25931 New features from the Dev Channel This build includes new features from the Dev Channel such as Unicode Emoji 15 support, voice access is available to use on more areas in Windows such...

Happy August! We have another release of Dev Home for you to try. This release updates Dev Home Preview to version 0.4 and the Dev Home GitHub extension to version 0.4 as well. You can install Dev Home from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. For this release, we focused on improving accessibility and quality. The next big feature we’re actively working on is integrating Azure DevOps and creating Azure DevOps widgets for Dev Home, so stay tuned for that! Accessibility improvements You can now navigate widgets with the keyboard using Tab and the left and right arrow keys. Narrator will now appropriately read the names of available widgets in the Add Widgets dialog. The navigation experiences between scan and non-scan...

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) enable immersive app experiences across all devices and platforms, including Windows 10 and 11, and can be installed as apps from app stores like the Microsoft Store on Windows. PWAs can be indistinguishable from native apps on Windows and allow developers to easily and quickly bring the best of their web experiences even closer to their customers. The Microsoft Store on Windows is a trusted location for customers to discover and install apps for their Windows PC. It is an excellent way to gain exposure and discoverability for any app, including PWAs – by reaching over a billion monthly active Windows devices, and taking advantage of opportunities for promotion to build more awareness and drive acquisitions...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.3391 (KB5029331) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on Windows 10, version 22H2. This update includes the following improvements: New! This update improves how Windows detects your location. This helps to give you better weather, news, and traffic information. New! This update expands the roll out of notification badging for Microsoft accounts on the Start menu. A Microsoft account is what connects Windows to your Microsoft apps. The account backs up all your data and helps you to manage your subscriptions. You can also add extra security steps to keep you from being locked out of your account. This feature gives you quick access to...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.2359 (KB5029332) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11 (original release). This update includes the following improvements: New! This update improves how Windows detects your location. This helps to give you better weather, news, and traffic information. This update makes daylight saving time (DST) changes for Israel. This update addresses an issue that affects the Group Policy Service. It will not wait for 30 seconds, which is the default wait time, for the network to be available. Because of this, policies are not correctly processed. This update adds a new API for D3D12 Independent Devices. You can use it to create multiple D3D12 devices on the...