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• New Narrator natural voices in Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Spain and Mexico)

• Added the ability to hide the time and date in the system tray
• Redesigned network flyout on the lock screen
• Redesigned Windows Security notification dialogs
• Improvements to the Settings app

• New Gallery feature in File Explorer

• Improvements to File Explorer
  • Modernized Details pane, Home page, address bar and search box
  • Redesigned Share window
• New Narrator natural voices in Japanese and English (United Kingdom)
• Improvements to the Settings app
  • New Dynamic Lighting page for controlling dynamic lighting devices
  • Redesigned Startup Apps and App Execution Alias pages
• Added support of Emoji 15.0
• Added the ability to inking directly onto edit fields via Windows Ink
• New volume mixer experience in Quick Settings
• New warning dialog on unsafe password copy and paste
• Improvements to Windows Spotlight
• Improvements to the navigating experience in Task View
• Improvements to the passwordless experience
  • Added the ability to enroll and use passkey to sign into apps and websites via Windows Hello
  • Added the ability to manage passkeys stored locally via the Settings app

• The availability of Copilot in Windows (in preview)
• New Dev Drive storage volume based on ReFS
• Enhanced Narrator support in Microsoft Excel
• New text authoring experiences in voice access
• Added support for voice access on lock screen before signing in
• New passwordless experience with Windows Hello for Business
• Improvements to the screen casting experience
• Improvements to the presence sensing experience
• New preview flyout when hovering over files under the Recommended section on the Start menu
• Updated notification bell icon in the system tray on the taskbar
• Redesigned Settings page in Task Manager
• Improvements to the Date & time page in the Settings app

• Added support of JPEG XR HDR background on HDR displays
• New Narrator natural voices in French, Portuguese, English (India), German and Korean
• Added more property fields to the new Details pane in File Explorer

• Added the native support of additional archive file formats (7z, rar, tar)
• Re-introduced the ability to never combine taskbar buttons
• Improvements to Narrator

• New Home page in the Settings app
• New Windows Backup app
• New screen for restoring from backup during the OOBE
• Improvements to backup and restore experience for desktop apps

• Added the support of COLRv1 color format

• New Focus Session widget

• New mini communications experience in Microsoft Teams (free)

1. Rollout of this feature to a subset of Insiders in the Beta Channel began at the time it was announced.

• Enhanced image consumption experience in Narrator

• Expanded the ability to use digital handwriting (inking) in some edit boxes for Windows Ink to more languages and locales

• New widgets board settings

• Improvements to Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch
• Improvements to voice access
  • New voice access in French, German, and Spanish
  • Added multi-display support
  • New voice shortcuts feature
• Updates to the Cast flyout in Quick Settings
• Deprecation of Windows Speech Recognition

• Richer weather experience on the lock screen
• New share targets for sharing links through the Windows share window

• Added support of USB4 Version 2.0 specification

• New suggestions feature in snap layouts 

• Moved the Copilot icon to the right side of the system tray on the taskbar
• Added the ability to view and join upcoming Microsoft Teams meetings directly from the Start menu

• New notification for prompting to open recent photos and screenshots from Android mobile device in Snipping Tool

• Improvements to Widgets board
• New notification badging for Widgets

• New Copilot actions menu to the Copilot icon on the taskbar

• New position for the Widgets entry-point on left-aligned taskbars
• New drag-and-drop functionality between breadcrumbs in the File Explorer's address bar
• Added ability to show additional quick status (such as sports, traffic and finance) on lock screen
• New button to generate a QR code to share a URL through the Windows share window
• Improvements to Windows Backup
  • Added the ability to backup and restore sound settings
  • Added the ability to sign-in with Microsoft account directly

• Added the ability to change the Copilot icon's appearance and animate after copying text or image files

• Added the ability to show recommended apps from the Microsoft Store under the Recommended section on the Start menu
• Added the ability to undock Copilot in Windows to a normal application window
• Interactivity adjustments to Windows Spotlight icon on the desktop
• New Linked devices page in the Settings app

• New account manager experience on the Start menu
• Added the ability to send email to user's own Gmail account from Windows share window
• New Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage
• New navigation pane on the Widgets dashboard
• Improvements to the Widgets taskbar button
• Added the ability for developers to send notifications to the Widgets taskbar button with custom Widgets dashboards
• Added the ability to disable Widgets taskbar notifications from individual Widgets dashboards

• Added the ability to duplicate a tab in File Explorer
• Improvements to Task Manager

• New copy button for copying files in the Windows share window

• Added support for creating 7z and tar archives natively
• Added support of Emoji 15.1

• Improvements to Voice access
  • Added the ability to give Narrator commands
  • New auto restart mechanism
  • New command for searching directly with Windows search
• New option to share a local file in the search results from the search box on the taskbar

• Interactivity adjustments to Windows Spotlight icon on the desktop
• New option to share content to the My Phone app in the Windows share window

• New feature for managing Android mobile devices directly from the Start menu
• Introduction of Copilot in Windows as a standalone app

• New tabs for Recent, Favorites, and Shared on File Explorer's homepage
• Improvements to taskbar previews
• Added support of first letter navigation on the taskbar
• New Studio Effects entry in the system tray and Quick Settings
• Update to Windows Share window for sharing content to an Android device
• New simplified variant of system tray with shortened date/time change
• Performance improvements to Narrator scan mode

• Redesigned "Open with" dialog
• Temporarily disabled the simplified variant of system tray with shortened date/time change

• Added the ability to show hover cards for inactive and pinned apps on the taskbar
• Improvements to the spelling and corrections experience in voice access
• Improvements to the Widgets dashboard

• Resumed the rollout of the simplified variant of system tray with shortened date/time change

• Temporarily disabled the Studio Effects entry in the system tray and Quick Settings

• New option to turn off the suggestions to disable notifications from certain apps
• Updated position of media controls on the lock screen
• Redesigned Delivery Optimization page in the Settings app

• New toggles for enhanced mouse pointer precision and changing mouse scrolling direction in the Settings app
• Adjustments to the Windows Spotlight experience to include hotspots and two different UX treatments
• Added the ability to share content to Notepad and Clipchamp directly from the Windows share window
• New Gamepad keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard

• Added the ability to share content to an Android device from the context menu
• Added the ability to configure the Copilot key via the Settings app

• Improvements to Task Manager
• Updated "Tailored experiences" to "Personalized offers" in OOBE and the Settings app
• Temporarily disabled the ability to configure the Copilot key via the Settings app

• New SimSun-ExtG font with 9,753 ideographs supporting CJK Unified Ideographs Extensions G, H and I

• Added the ability to share with apps directly through the context menu in File Explorer or on the desktop

• Improvments to snap layout suggestions

• Improvements to the Dynamic Lighting page in the Settings app
• Re-rolled out the ability to configure the Copilot key via the Settings app with refinements

• Modernized Windows Hello
• Temporarily disabled the new Gamepad keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard for maintenance

• Added the ability to share files directly from the jump lists on the taskbar
• New functionalities to Narrator scan mode
• Improvements to speech-to-text and text-to-speech experience
• Re-rolled out the new Gamepad keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard

• Added the ability to seamlessly resume working on OneDrive files from iOS and Android devices on Windows devices with a single click
• Update to WebAuthn Plugin Authenticator APIs to support a plugin authentication model for passkeys
• Added the ability to right-click and share local files under the Recommended section of the Start menu

• Improvements to File Explorer
  • New ability to open desktop folders and external folder links in new tabs within a File Explorer window
  • New option to snooze or turn off the "Start backup" reminder in the File Explorer address bar
  • New ability to restore all previously opened tabs in each File Explorer window
• Temporarily disabled the new simplified variant of system tray with shortened date/time change

• Improvements to the filtering for recommended websites on the Start menu
• Update to the top right hotspot on the lock screen with different treatments
• Update to the Desktop Spotlight icon interaction model
• New Visual preview of links and web content in the Windows share window

1. ^ Rollout of this feature to a subset of Insiders in the Beta Channel began at the time it was announced.
2. ^ Rollout of this feature to Insiders in the European Economic Area began at the time it was announced.

• Added support for Microsoft Endpoint DLP on Windows 11 on ARM builds

• Enabled the SMB signing requirement for all connections by default on the Enterprise edition

• An early implementation of critical kernel features in Rust programming language
• Deprecation of the support for ARM32 UWP applications
• New PostAuthenticationAction Group Policy support for terminating individual processes in Windows LAPS
• Added the support of COLRv1 color format
• New Dev Drive storage volume based on ReFS
• New Windows Backup app
• New Dynamic Lighting page in the Settings app for controlling dynamic lighting devices
• Added support of Unicode Emoji 15
• Improvements to the passwordless experience
  • Added the ability to enroll and use passkey to sign into apps and websites via Windows Hello
  • Added the ability to manage passkeys stored locally via the Settings app
• Enabled the SMB signing requirement for all connections by default on the Pro and Education editions

• Modernized Details pane, Home page, address bar and search box in File Explorer
• Re-introduced the ability to never combine taskbar buttons
• Included Outlook for Windows Preview progressive web app as an inbox app
• Improvements to refresh rate logic to allow different refresh rates on different monitors
• Added the support of remaining at the lower refresh rate when Dynamic Refresh Rate and battery saver are enabled

• Added support of JPEG XR HDR background on HDR displays
• New preview flyout when hovering over files under the Recommended section on the Start menu
• New mini communications experience in Microsoft Teams (free)

• Improvements to the screen casting experience
• Updated notification bell icon in the system tray on the taskbar
• Added options for tuning intensity and color boost to the color filters via the Settings app

• Added more property fields to the new Details pane in File Explorer

• Improvements to the experience for after completing OOBE
• Redesigned Settings page in Task Manager

• Added support for blocking NTLM for remote outbound connections for the SMB client
• Added support for controlling which SMB 2 and 3 dialects the SMB server will negotiate

• New Home page in the Settings app
• Discontinuation and removal of Cortana

• Added support of Bluetooth Low Energy Audio (LE Audio) specifications
• New location access prompt
• Support of client access control options in SMB over QUIC

• The availability of Copilot in Windows (in preview)
• Added support for requiring encryption of all outbound SMB client connections
• Added client-side support for Discovery of Network-designated Resolvers (DNR)
• Added native support of ReFS Block Cloning to copy actions and APIs on Windows

• Redesigned Delivery Optimization page in the Settings app
• Added support for viewing and editing metadata in PNG files

• Added support for creating 7z and tar archives natively
• New suggestions feature in snap layouts
• Changes to SMB firewall rule
• Added support for specifying SMB NTLM blocking exception lists for NTLM usage
• Added support for SMB alternative network ports
• Added support for using certificates with subject alternative names for SMB over QUIC client access control

• New widgets board settings
• New Energy saver toggle in Quick Settings and the Settings app
• Improvements to Quick Settings

• Deprecation of the Microsoft Tips app

• New Windows Protected Print Mode
• New Mobile devices (renamed from Phone Link) page in the Settings app

• Improvements to voice access
  • New voice access in French, German, and Spanish
  • Added multi-display support
  • New voice shortcuts feature
• Deprecation of Windows Speech Recognition, WordPad and the People app

• New notification for prompting to open recent photos and screenshots from Android mobile device in Snipping Tool
• New share targets for sharing links through the Windows share window
• Updates to Windows Setup experience
• Moved the Copilot icon to the right side of the system tray on the taskbar
• Updates to the Cast flyout in Quick Settings
• Enhanced image consumption experience in Narrator
• New Colemak and Hebrew SI-1452-2 keyboard layouts
• New compression wizard for configurating advanced compression options
• Added support of USB4 Version 2.0 specification
• Expanded Voice Clarity feature (previously available on Surface Laptop Studio) to all devices
• Support for listening on an alternative network port for SMB over QUIC instead of hardcoded default in SMB server
• Improvements to Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)
  • New automatic account management policy settings
  • New PasswordComplexity feature
  • New passphrase feature for password parameters policy settings
  • New image rollback detection feature

1. ^ Rollout of this feature to a subset of Insiders in the Canary Channel began at the time it was announced.

Public release:
October 31, 2023

Public release:
October 31, 2023

• Added the ability to inking directly onto edit fields via Windows Ink

• Richer weather experience on the lock screen

• Expanded the ability to use digital handwriting (inking) in some edit boxes for Windows Ink to more languages and locales

• Moved the Copilot icon to the right side of the system tray on the taskbar

• New suggestions feature in snap layouts
• Updates to the Cast flyout in Quick Settings
• Improvements to Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch
• Improvements to Windows share window
• Improvements to voice access
• New Mobile devices (renamed from Phone Link) page in the Settings app
• New notification for prompting to open recent photos and screenshots from Android mobile device in Snipping Tool
  • New voice access in French, German, and Spanish
  • Added multi-display support
  • New voice shortcuts feature

• Added support of USB4 Version 2.0 specification

• Introduction of Microsoft PC Manager to devices in China
• New drag-and-drop functionality between breadcrumbs in the File Explorer's address bar
• New Linked devices page in the Settings app
• New account manager experience on the Start menu
• Improvements to Windows Backup
  • Added the ability to backup and restore sound settings
  • Added the ability to sign-in with Microsoft account directly
• Improvements to the Windows share window
  • Added the ability to directly share to specific Microsoft Teams channels and group chats
  • New option to generate a QR code to share a URL
  • Added the ability to send email to user's own Gmail account

• Introduction of Copilot in Windows as a standalone app
• Added support of Emoji 15.1
• Added support for creating 7z and tar archives natively
• New Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage
• New copy button for copying files in the Windows share window
• Improvements to Task Manager

• Added support of first letter navigation on the taskbar

• Update to Windows Share window for sharing content to an Android device
• Performance improvements to Narrator scan mode
• Improvements to the spelling and corrections experience in voice access

• Updated position of media controls on the lock screen
• Updates to the new account manager on the Start menu
• Redesigned Delivery Optimization page in the Settings app
• New option to share a local file in the search results from the search box on the taskbar

• Added the ability to manage Copilot Pro subscription in the Settings app

• New feature for managing Android mobile devices directly from the Start menu
• New Gamepad keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard
• New option to turn off the suggestions to disable notifications from certain apps
• Added the ability to configure the Copilot key via the Settings app

• Improvements to Narrator

• New simplified variant of system tray with shortened date/time change
• New toggles for enhanced mouse pointer precision and changing mouse scrolling direction in the Settings app
• New section for touch screen edge gestures in the Settings app
• Improvements to the Dynamic Lighting page in the Settings app
• Improvements to Task Manager
• Added the ability to share content to an Android device from the context menu
• New functionalities to Narrator scan mode
• Improvements to speech-to-text and text-to-speech experience
• Updated "Tailored experiences" to "Personalized offers" in OOBE and the Settings app

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