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• WSL containers CLI: wslc.exe to directly build, run and deploy Linux containers on Windows, or use its built-in alias container.exe to run the same familiar container commands
• WSL containers API: Access functions to run Linux containers programmatically in your native Windows apps – unlocking scenarios like running local AI workloads or using cloud-based containerized applications locally.

New commands and capabilities

• wslc container restart — restart a running container
• wslc container cp — copy files in and out via tar archive
• wslc system info — see the state of your container environment at a glance
• wslc network connect and wslc network disconnect — attach and detach containers from networks
• wslc network create now supports arbitrary network driver options
• wslc events – Streams real time container activity
• Container health checks are now supported
• --stop-timeout on wslc create and wslc run, including -1 for an infinite timeout
• --mount support during wslc create and wslc run
• A configurable storage path for the default wslc session, so you can put your container storage on the drive you want.

Enterprise manageability for WSL containers

• Allow WSL containers access - Control access to the entire WSL containers feature.
• WSL containers registry allow list - For WSL containers enterprise adoption, organizations need stronger controls over the container images that can be introduced into their environment. With container registry allow lists, administrators can define approved registries and help ensure developers only pull container images from that list, that meet organizational security and compliance requirements.

Partner and community integrations

• VS Code dev container support: Use wslc as your default driver for creating and interacting with VS Code dev containers
• Aspire: Aspire can use WSL Containers as first-class container runtime
• VS Code container extension: A popular extension to manage your containers in VS Code, now supports wslc.
• Lazywslc: A TUI dashboard to manage your WSL containers
• WSL Container Desktop: WinUI 3 desktop app for managing WSL containers, Kubernetes (k3s) and container registries.
• WSLc remote: A short wrapper script to run wslc from within WSL distros

What's next for WSL

Adding wslc compose

WSL fundamental improvements

Building the future of Linux on Windows, together

A predictable and low-disruption update

How to get it

Information for commercial and education customers

Staying protected and productive

• Beta: Build 26220.9568
• Experimental: Build 26340.9577

• Beta (26H1): Build 28020.3112
• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.3122
• Experimental (Future Platforms): We do not have a release for Experimental (Future Platforms) today.

Notable new features:

[Start menu - Phone companion]

• See more of your latest activities at a glance: Phone companion for the Start menu now shows more of your recent activity, with a scrollable side pane so you can view even more without leaving the Start menu.

• Windows Insiders will now see Energy Recommendations directly in Quick Settings, making it easier to discover and take actions that can help reduce energy consumption and improve device sustainability.

What defines Surface laptops?

• Up to 17% faster in Office productivity workloads^6,7 

• Up to 18% more efficient battery performance⁸  

• More than 60% faster graphics performance^2,9 

• Up to 95% faster local AI inferencing on the NPU^3,8

Surface Pro 12-inch: big ideas start here

Surface Laptop 13-inch: think big, travel light

Surface Mouse: feedback you can feel

Built for business, ready for AI

Find your next Surface at Microsoft Store

• Up to $400 in additional value with an eligible device trade-in¹⁹

• Fast, free shipping and 60-day free returns 

• Flexible payment and financing options 

• Expert support from Microsoft 

• A one-year limited hardware warranty²⁰

OpaqueRange API: highlight and interact with text ranges in form inputs

Reference Target: improve your web components' accessibility

<label for="custom-checkbox">Checkbox value</label>
<custom-checkbox id="custom-checkbox">
  <template shadowrootmode="open" shadowrootreferencetarget="real-checkbox">
    <input id="real-checkbox" type="checkbox">
  </template>
</custom-checkbox>

aria-actions: make composite widgets accessible

<button class="tab" aria-actions="close-tab">
    <span class=”tab-title”>Tab 1</span>
    <span id="close-tab">Close</span>
</button>

And many other features

• Media pseudo-classes allow you to style media elements, such as <video> and <audio>, based on their playback state, by using the new :playing, :paused, :buffering, :muted, and :stalled pseudo-classes.
• The window-drag CSS property is a new standardized way to make installed PWA windows draggable, which is helpful when using the Window Controls Overlay API. In addition, starting with Microsoft Edge 151 on Windows, when you use the Window Controls Overlay API, the PWA app title bar is now hidden by default, giving you more control over the look and feel of your app.
• New JavaScript Iterator methods make it easier to work with iterators:
  • Iterator.join() returns a string that's the concatenation of all elements that are produced by the iterator.
  • Iterator.zip(), and Iterator.zipKeyed() create new iterators that aggregate elements from multiple iterable objects. These methods zip the input iterables together, allowing simultaneous iteration over the input iterables.
• The soft-navigation and interaction-contentful-paint performance entries help you improve performance of modern single-page web apps by measuring soft navigations that update the page without triggering a traditional page browser history changes.
• The alpha() CSS function creates a new color by adjusting another color's transparency.
• textStream() is now available on Response, Request, and Body objects, making it more convenient to process text incrementally without manually decoding byte chunks.
• The <camera> and <microphone> HTML elements are browser-provided buttons that let users toggle camera or microphone streams and, when needed, connect the permission request directly to an explicit user action.

Ready for testing

WebMCP: unlock browsing agent scenarios on your site

JS Self-Profiling markers: see what the browser is doing during a trace

New network debugging tools: edit and resend requests

• Resend: this action resends a request such as XHR or Fetch.
• Edit and resend as fetch: this action creates a Fetch API call but doesn't send it right away. Instead, it writes it to the input of the Console tool. You can then modify the new request, such as by changing the request headers or parameters, and send it.

navigator.install() and <install>: install other web apps

// Install the current app
navigator.install();

// Install a cross-origin web app
navigator.install( { manifest: https://example.com/manifest.json });

<!-- Install the current app -->
<install>

<!-- Install a cross-origin web app -->
<install manifest="https://example.com/app/manifest.webmanifest"></install>

News from across the web platform

The Interop 2027 call for proposals closes soon

Microsoft Edge sponsors Open Web Docs for the 7^th consecutive year

A native menu element is coming

Do you have feedback? We're listening

• Beta: Build 26220.9492
• Experimental: Build 26340.9502

• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.3032
• Experimental (Future Platforms): Build 29671.1000

Notable new features:

[Accessibility - Mouse indicator]

• We're introducing a sleeker new animation for the Mouse indicator. This can be enabled under accessibility settings. We've also added the option to keep the indicator activated until the user presses the escape key.

[Magnifier]

• A new contrast theme toggle for a lower-glare screen. If bright screens are uncomfortable, many people use color inversion to reduce glare. However, inversion changes everything on screen, including photos, charts, and videos. With this update, we're introducing a new contrast theme toggle in Magnifier. Check out the release notes link for more information.

[Cloud rebuild]

• We're updating Cloud rebuild, the recovery option that restores a Windows 11 PC to a clean, known-good state by performing a full OS reinstall, with two additions. Cloud rebuild can now sanitize the device's drives as part of the rebuild and IT administrators can now configure and start Cloud rebuild remotely through the Recovery CSP. See release notes for more information.

Five ways Windows 365 supports modern development

1. Give developers a ready-to-code, customizable environment

2. Scale compute and run local AI directly on the Cloud PC

4. Build and run enterprise agents securely

5. Protect sensitive development work

Why modern development needs an environment that responds to change

Windows 365 brings the right environment to developers

Advancing developer experiences with Windows 365 on a unified platform 

Turning workload choice into a modern developer workflow 

Innovation available today

Building the next era of the PC

Windows at IFA 

Acer

ASUS

Dell

HP

Lenovo

MSI

AMD

NVIDIA

Innovating together for what comes next

• Beta: Build 26220.9472
• Experimental: Build 26340.9482

• Beta (26H1): Build 28020.2991
• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.3002
• Experimental (Future Platforms): Build 29667.1000
  • Please note it may take your device up to 30 minutes post announce to pick up this build.

• Release Preview (26H1): Build 28000.3079

Notable new features:

[Context menu]

• We've added a new teaching tip you might see as a first-time experience to help you learn about the customization options.
• In theme with giving you more control, you can also now turn off the customize context menu entry in the new context menu settings.
• We've fixed a few small issues with the Send To option in the context menu not working as expected.

• Search from This PC in File Explorer is now indexer-based, making it much faster and consistent with search from File Explorer Home.

• New! This update adjusts how the preview pane handles files downloaded from the web. For HTML files, a new Preview anyway button lets you acknowledge the warning and preview the file. Non-HTML files, such as PDFs, are now previewed automatically.

• New! File Explorer Home now preserves the state of sections (expanded or collapsed), so you can pick up where you left off.

• New! This update improves the reliability of thumbnail previews for cloud files in the Details pane. The pane has also been reorganized so file properties are easier to find and review at a glance.
• New! The update addresses an issue that could clear the address bar contents when entering edit mode by clicking near the right side of the address bar.

• New! This update adds support for Emoji 17.0, including new emoji such as distorted face, fight cloud, and hairy creature. To insert them, press the Windows key + Period (.) to open the emoji panel.

• New! This update also refines the design of several existing emoji for better consistency across platforms, including saluting face, face with peeking eye, goose, lotus, and kissing cat.

• New! This update introduces the Tips widget, which provides short, helpful guidance about Windows features. To add it to your Widgets board, open the board, select Add widgets, and then choose Tips. To add it to your lock screen, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen and add Tips to your lock screen widgets.

• This update includes a variety of improvements to desktop background experiences.

• This update improves the reliability of the Personalization > Background page in Settings.

• This update adds support for using DIB image files as desktop backgrounds.

• This update improves reliability of desktop slideshow transitions on newly created accounts.

• This update improves resolution of previews when selecting a desktop background in Personalization > Background.

• This update improves desktop background preview display in Settings for users with portrait mode monitors.

• This update improves reliability of processing desktop wallpaper changes when they happen in quick succession.

• This update adds support for using slideshow wallpapers with multiple desktops, so that it won’t automatically switch you back to Picture.

• This update contains several enhancements to improve reliability and experience when connecting to and using Bluetooth devices:

• During voice calls, the Windows shell volume flyout now appears when adjusting the volume of a Bluetooth Classic Audio accessory via the volume controls on the accessory, providing visual feedback of the new volume level.

• This update improves the accuracy of the connection state displayed by Windows for accessories that have disconnected from the PC.

• This update improves stability of the Bluetooth and devices page in Settings when managing Bluetooth and audio devices.

• This update resolves an issue where the Bluetooth radio could be turned off, but the state of the radio control toggle in the Bluetooth and devices page in Settings shows as on.

• This update improves Bluetooth audio stability and compatibility.

• This update improves microphone compatibility with certain Bluetooth Classic audio accessories.

• This update resolves an issue that could result in a crash (error code 0x139) while streaming Bluetooth audio.

• This update improves reliability and performance with LE Audio accessories.

• This update improves the reliability of shared audio.

• New! This update introduces Open apps maximized, an accessibility setting that automatically maximizes app windows as they open. It removes a bit of everyday friction whether you use a screen reader or magnification, work in tablet mode, or simply prefer a consistent, full-screen workspace. To turn it on, go to Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects and turn on Open apps maximized.

• This update improves navigation of the Bluetooth quick settings page when using keyboard input, gamepad input, or Narrator.

• New! This update brings a modernized visual refresh to the Magnifier taskbar.

• Updated icons. Magnifier's toolbar icons align with Windows 11 visual design, giving the tool a cleaner, more modernized feel.

• Refined spacing and padding. The padding is adjusted with spacing across the toolbar for a more polished, consistent layout.

• Views, zoom controls, keyboard shortcuts, and Read Aloud all behave exactly as they did in earlier versions.

• This update improves the reliability of Settings when interacting with the contents of the Settings > Bluetooth & Devices > Printers & Scanners page.

• This update updates Settings > Apps > Installed apps to show the version number at the top level for packaged apps, as it already does for other apps.

• This update improves the time picker control in Settings so that it reflects your preferred time format when you switch between 12-hour and 24-hour. This applies in places such as setting active hours and scheduling night light.

• This update improves persistence of the Allow multiple apps to use camera at the same time option in Settings > Bluetooth & Devices > Camera settings.

• New! Additional gesture controls for precision touchpads are available in Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad:

• Single-finger scrolling — Scroll vertically with one finger starting from the left or right side of the touchpad.

• Automatic scrolling — Keep scrolling without lifting your fingers by moving them near the edge of your touchpad while scrolling.

• Previously, gesture controls for scroll and zoom speed and accelerate scrolling were released in the July 2026 update (KB5101684).

• New! This update introduces a new Windows 11 setting that lets you remap the Copilot key to function as the Right Ctrl or Context Menu key, helping preserve familiar keyboard shortcuts and accessibility workflows. For more information, see Understand updates to the Copilot key on Windows devices.

• New! This update introduces Camera roll backup in Settings, helping eligible users protect their photos with OneDrive. You can turn on the feature from the Settings Home or Accounts page and complete setup on their mobile phone using a QR code. ¹

• New! This update adds support for the Garay and Beria Erfe scripts to the Ebrima font, the first Microsoft font to support both. Garay was encoded in Unicode 16.0 and Beria Erfe in Unicode 17.0.

• New! This update also refines the Adlam glyph designs in Ebrima to align with the current Unicode standard and improve consistency.

• New! This update enables WinRE to automatically reuse eligible Wi-Fi profiles already saved in Windows, including supported certificate-based networks. Devices can now get online automatically during recovery scenarios such as quick machine recovery or cloud rebuild, without preconfiguring Wi-Fi credentials in WinRE. This capability is on by default, and IT admins can disable it. For more information, see Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).

• New! This update adds recovery remote management plug-in for extending WinRE management capabilities for MDM providers. For more information, see Recovery Remote Management Overview.

• The Windows key plus Tab keyboard shortcut is now disabled when using a restricted UX kiosk.

• The Windows key plus A and Windows key plus C keyboard shortcuts are now disabled when using single app kiosk mode.

• PC-to-PC Migration is no longer available. This feature, introduced through a phased rollout, previously allowed you to transfer files and settings directly from your previous PC when setting up a new Windows PC. To back up and restore your files, settings, and other supported items when moving to a new PC, use Windows Backup. For more information, see Back up and restore with Windows Backup.

• Beta: Build 26620.9343
• Experimental: Build 26340.9354

• Beta (26H1): Build 28020.2904
• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.2912
• Experimental (Future Platforms): Build 29661.1000

Notable new features:

[Cross-device resume improvements]

[Narrator]

[Magnifier]

• Every screen keeps its own view, at its own zoom. In earlier versions of Magnifier, zooming in stretched a single magnified view across all of your displays, so one screen's zoom followed you everywhere and screen edges blurred together. With this update, each monitor's boundary is respected, and each monitor can hold its own zoom percentage. Your writing screen can sit at 300% while your reference screen stays at 150%, and the magnified view no longer spills from one display into the next. This matters because different tasks, and different screen resolutions, often call for different levels of magnification to stay comfortable to read. Read more in release notes link above.

• Parental approvals for offerings like screen-time extensions, app access, and purchases now happen faster, so kids aren’t left waiting and parents stay in control.
• We restored clear visibility into web and app activity so parents can trust what they see in their reports.
• Made spending more transparent, with wallet balances.
• We also gave adults in a family more control over their own experience, making it far easier to add, manage, or leave a family group 

Parental control: Faster and reliable approval flows 

Activity reporting: full app coverage 

Family funding balance after top-up 

What’s next 

From account to safer experiences 

• Whether the user is a child, teen, or adult 
• Whether parental controls or consent apply 
• Whether age verification has been completed 

Extending safety across the ecosystem with the Windows Age APIs 

• GetUserAgeRangeAsync: Provides non-personally identifiable age group categories for apps to utilize in providing safe and age-appropriate user experiences, while protecting the date of birth data and overall privacy of users. Age groupings available via the API include- under 10, 10-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18+.
• GetAgeVerificationStatusAsync: Provides verified age status for scenarios when self-reported age is not sufficient.
• CheckAgeStatusAsync: Extends the functionality of the legacy CheckUserAgeConsentGroupAsync API to offer child, minor, or adult classification globally and as defined by regional policies.

• Apps receive only the age-related signal needed for the experience and not sensitive personal data such as full date of birth
• Users remain in control through consent and platform-level controls
• Age information is handled consistently at the platform level to reduce unnecessary sharing and fragmentation 

Building toward high-confidence age assurance 

Making safety clearer from the start 

Family Safety and Parental Controls 

Raising the bar for digital safety 

Availability 

Speeding up extension reviews

Recognizing quality as it improves

Improving the baseline Windows 11 experience

Ready to code out of the box

Secure platform for agents on developer-class hardware

Project Zenith is just the beginning

What makes a strong proposal?

• They solve a real developer problem. Make sure you explain how inconsistent browser behavior or missing support affect developers in practice.
• They have ecosystem impact. Evidence from developers, frameworks, libraries, issue trackers, surveys, or real-world sites helps demonstrate that a problem is worth solving.
• They're about standards-based features. Features with a stable specification and broad standards support are better candidates for Interop.
• They can be measured. Interop relies on Web Platform Tests (WPT) to track progress, so proposals should either have strong existing test coverage or a clear path to adding it.
• They are scoped for meaningful progress. A focused, concrete proposal is often easier to evaluate and more likely to succeed than a broad request such as "improve CSS" or "fix forms everywhere."

Submit your proposals now

• Beta (26H1): Build 28020.2818
• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.2824

STEM and education apps

Security apps

Productivity apps

Creativity, social media and entertainment apps

Reading and resources on the expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem

• Works on Windows on Arm
• Empowering the future: The expanding Arm app ecosystem for Copilot+ PCs
• Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark
• Fall 2025 Windows Musician Technology and Arm64 Update
• Accelerating Arm momentum in Japan with App Assure
• Advancing print readiness across the Windows on Arm ecosystem

• On the week of August 27, the WebView2 Runtime version 152 will be last major version to be released 4 weeks after the previous version.
• On the week of September 10, version 153 will be the very first version to be released only two weeks after the previous version.
• After that point, a new major version will be released about every two weeks, aligned with the Edge release cadence.

What this means for your app

Recommended actions

Stay current

• Beta: Build 26220.9223
• Experimental: Build 26340.9233

• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.2760

Notable new features:

[Modernized Autoplay experience]

• We've updated the AutoPlay dialog that helps you choose the preferred experience when devices are connected to your PC (e.g., a phone, camera, or removable drive). Rebuilt with WinUI, the refreshed experience is more consistent with the rest of Windows, supports dark mode, and continues to provide the familiar AutoPlay actions you use today. The experience is also more responsive to text scaling and display settings. Notifications for this dialog will now be docked in the notification center for easy access.

[Accessibility]

• We are introducing a new accessibility setting, “Open apps maximized”, that automatically maximizes app windows when they open — so you no longer have to do it yourself every time. This is a small change that removes a bit of everyday friction, whether you use a screen reader or magnification, work in tablet mode, or simply prefer a consistent, full-screen workspace.
• To turn it on, go to Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects and switch on Open apps maximized. Once enabled, Windows maximizes app windows for you as they open. Give it a try and let us know how it works for you.

The measurable impact of Windows 365 Cloud PCs

• Windows 365 Flex provides Cloud PCs for part-time, shift-based, or occasional use
• Windows 365 Reserve equips employees with temporary Cloud PCs if their physical devices are unavailable
• Windows 365 Link is the simple, secure purpose-built device for Windows 365 that’s especially useful for shared workspaces
• Windows 365 for Agents provides a secure execution environment for AI agents to run.

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Desktop as a Service 2026 Vendor Assessment

What’s new and next with Windows 365

Empowering developers

Enabling AI agents

Strengthening security

Streamlining management

Partnering on the next chapter

Ready to get started?

Fewer bad moments

Improving the details that matter every day

Putting you in control of the context menu

Building a healthier File Explorer for the long term

• Beta: Build 26220.9202
• Experimental: Build 26340.9212

• Beta (26H1): Build 28020.2731
• Experimental (26H1): Build 28120.2738
• Experimental (Future Platforms): Build 29648.1000

Notable new features:

[File Explorer]

• We’re beginning to roll out an updated context menu experience in File Explorer, designed to feel faster, cleaner, and easier to tailor to the way you work. The new design reduces top-level clutter, keeps commonly used actions easy to access, and adds a new Settings experience that gives you more control over what appears in the menu. As we continue refining this experience with Insider feedback, our goal is to make right-click feel more responsive, predictable, and personal.

[Emoji]

• We’re adding support for Emoji 17.0. This includes new emoji such as distorted face, fight cloud, and hairy creature. To try out the new emoji, you can press the Windows key plus Period (.) to open the emoji panel and insert them from there.

• As part of this effort, we’ve also made some slight adjustments the design of some of our current emoji to improve consistency across platforms. This includes the saluting face, face with peeking eye, goose, lotus, and kissing cat emoji.

• Windows 11 version 24H2/25H2: Build 26100.9267/26200.9267
• Windows 11 version 26H1: Build 28000.2796

The ecosystem is ready for the next step

What to expect next

What developers should do now

Now generally available

• Cisco Secure Access is an advanced enterprise browser integration for Edge for Business. As a single integrated connector, it brings not only secure access but also unified data protection and AI guardrails directly into the browser.
• Tanium Connector for Microsoft Edge for Business delivers real-time browser telemetry into Tanium Autonomous IT Platform, helping organizations gain deeper visibility into browser-based threats, close critical security blind spots, improve compliance validation, and strengthen overall endpoint security across the enterprise.
• Clever Classroom MFA TrustPass helps streamline logins in education environments by recognizing trusted devices in Edge for Business—reducing unnecessary MFA prompts while maintaining strong security.

Bringing it all together

• More taskbar customization
• Integrating AI where it’s most meaningful
• Reducing disruption from Windows Updates
• Faster and more dependable File Explorer
• More control over widgets and feed experiences
• A simpler, more transparent Windows Insider Program
• Improving the Feedback Hub experience

• Earlier this month, we began previewing improvements to Windows Search Box, including a calmer home screen, clearer results, removing promotional content from web results and more.
• At Build 2026 in June, we introduced a number of improvements to the developer experience on Windows including a developer-optimized Windows 11 experience to build and ship faster, announcing and later delivering a public preview of WSL containers, Windows 365 with developer configuration, Microsoft Execution Containers and much more.
• We've strengthened the fundamentals of WinUI 3 and extended it into more of the Windows shell, including Widgets and the new Run experience, with Autoplay dialog and more File/Folder Properties dialogs coming soon to Windows Insider Preview Experimental builds. And with substantial improvements in memory efficiency and latency, these investments are strengthening the platform foundation needed to accelerate the modernization of Windows 11 and the broader application ecosystem.
• In May, we began previewing changes to Taskbar and Start, which included the ability to move your taskbar positions as well as provide more personalization of Start.
• In May, we shared updates on how we've been simplifying AI throughout the OS, starting with inbox apps, part of a broader shift to make AI in Windows more intentional and focused on the experiences that provide the most value to customers.
• We have previewed several improvements to File Explorer, including foundational architecture enhancements designed to improve responsiveness and reliability across launch and navigation. We’ve addressed long-standing feedback about Home, including unstable transitions and blurry thumbnails. We also made updates to address File Explorer reliability, readability, and usability across the Address Bar, file size formatting, keyboard navigation, and renaming, and there’s more to come soon.
• In May, we previewed updates to the widgets and feed experience, giving you more control over and making them quieter by default.
• In May, we introduced the Driver Quality Initiative (DQI), a comprehensive, ecosystem-wide effort designed to fundamentally raise the bar on driver quality, reliability, and security across Windows. Since March, we've improved reliability across some of Windows' most common connectivity experiences, including improved USB4 docking performance, improved compatibility with Bluetooth devices like AirPods, as well as major gains in printer connectivity, including reducing in-network printer discovery failures.
• We're continuing to invest across the full stack, from the kernel and shell to the apps and developer tools built on Windows, so performance improvements benefit the broad range of ways people use Windows. Building on the responsiveness and scheduler work we described in May, application launches and experiences like Start, File Explorer, Search, and Snipping Tool are faster and more responsive. Our focus has been on improving these experiences, so they are responsive, free of stutters and delays, and customers enjoy a reliable experience every time. Boot and logon times are also improved. Additionally, developers benefit from faster compile times, streamlining enterprise workflows.
• Alongside all of these areas, we’ve steadily been introducing several improvements to the memory efficiency of Windows, from taking advantage of a more efficient memory allocator to reduce overhead across apps and components, continued tuning of WinUI 3 so that apps built on it use less memory by design, as well as driving efficiencies across Chromium and Webview2 components when they appear in the operating system.
• Throughout this effort, we've improved Windows Hello to make signing in with your face or fingerprint more reliable, helping you get to your desktop faster. It's part of our broader focus on the everyday experiences that should just work, making Windows feel more polished, dependable, and consistent every day.
• In April, we began previewing changes that reduced disruption from Windows Updates and provided more control like the ability to skip updates during the out-of-box experience (OOBE), extending update pauses and more.
• In April, we made changes to the Windows Insider Program to become simpler and easier to navigate, with fewer channels and more control over the features you flight.

• Onboarding and setup. Delivering a faster and more efficient out-of-box experience.
• Memory optimization for 8GB and above. Reducing Windows memory footprint to deliver a fast and responsive Windows experience across the PCs customers use every day.
• Family. Providing a faster set up and making it easier for families to access useful parental controls.
• Voice. Making voice more natural and fluid to interact across the apps you use every day.