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Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.1279 (KB5019157) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11 (original release). This update includes the following improvements: New! We provided the Quick Assist application for your client device. We fixed some persistent update failures for the Microsoft Store. We fixed an issue that affected some devices that are managed by an enterprise. It improved the reliability of app installations for them. We fixed an issue that affected Unified Update Platform (UUP) on-premises customers. It removed the block that stops them from getting offline language packs. We fixed an issue that affected cluster name objects (CNO) or virtual computer objects...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.891 and Build 22623.891 (KB5020040) to the Beta Channel. Build 22623.891= New features rolling out. Build 22621.891 = New features off by default. REMINDER: Insiders who were previously on Build 22622 will automatically get moved to Build 22623 via an enablement package. The enablement package artificially increments the build number for the update with new features getting rolled out and turned on to make it easier to differentiate from devices with the update with features off by default. This approach is being used for the Beta Channel only and is not indicative of any changes or plans for final feature rollouts. Insiders who landed in the...

To celebrate a decade of Surface, a special edition of Microsoft’s signature 2-in-1 device draws its inspiration from Windows 11’s desktop wallpaper and nearly 150 years of history at a world-renowned global design house. The Surface Pro Liberty Keyboard with Slim Pen 2*, which shows off the collaboration between Microsoft Surface and the London-based Liberty, is now available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Japan (though supplies are limited). “It's such a contrast of things and you would never expect this to happen in some ways,” says Elliott Hsu, a principal hardware designer at Microsoft who headed a team that worked with Liberty to also create the laser engraved Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition* and printed keyboard, which...

Hey Minecraft fans: Escape Estate – this year's free Hour of Code lesson – is here. Use the power of code to solve puzzles, open trap doors in a mysterious mansion and reveal hidden clues. Escape by dawn and earn a million emeralds. To get started, download the Minecraft: Education Edition and set a goal of doing an Hour of Code a day. If you're a teacher, find out how to get the lesson plan and take a free course, or register your class to attend a live Hour of Code workshop with a guest teacher offered at multiple times during CS Ed Week, Dec 5–11. Watch the video and find out about it all on the Minecraft: Education Edition page. Continue reading...

Today, we are pleased to announce the start of availability of an exciting new feature. iCloud Photos is now directly integrated into the Photos app on Windows 11 and is beginning to roll out today via a Microsoft Store update to the Photos app. We expect it to be available to all Windows 11 customers by end of the month. The recently updated Photos app on Windows 11 has been thoughtfully crafted to make organization of your photo collection easy, no matter where your photos and videos come from — your phone, your camera, your cloud storage: iCloud Photos, OneDrive1 — see them all together in one gorgeous gallery. We know that many Windows customers have photo and video collections on their iPhones that they would like to be able to...