2 weeks Ago By Paul Thurrott
It looks like our monthly preview update for Windows 11 version 24H2 will arrive later than expected yet again. But if you’ve got a PC on Windows 11 version 23H2, the software giant did deliver a preview update late in the day on Tuesday. will upgrade Windows 11 version 23H2 to build 22631.
5262 and add the following key new features and changes over time: Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! Pivot-based curated views and improved performance for extracting numerous small files in ZIP files. A new speech recap feature helps you access spoken content, follow along with live transcription, and copy what Narrator last said.
New integration with the Start menu lets you access phone features like calls, text messages, photos, and shared content. Web developers can finally start writing interactive widgets that work with the Widget board in Windows 11. And support for customizing Lock screen widgets finally comes to those in the European Economic Area (EEA).
You can now make last minute edits to an image you’re sharing directly from the Share sheet. This build also includes fixes for Start and the Taskbar, and the logic for how pinned app shortcuts on the Desktop are displayed received a small change. As with so many Windows 11 updates, this update also “makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates.
” We can expect a nearly identical preview update for 24H2 by the end of the week as well, of course. (When they’re delayed like this, they usually arrive on Thursday.) Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books.
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