Last week at Windows No. 6 (CW 42 & 43)

Update: This is the last blog post of this series, as it’s too much work for nothing

Android Apps for Windows 11 beta users

Microsoft announced in a blog post that Windows Subsytsm for Android is comming to beta users in the US.

You can read more about the Windows Subsystem for Android in the official Blogpost.

Insider Preview Build 22483

If you have this build installed you get the 7th anniversairy badge in the Feedback Hub:

Badge

Source: Round Checkbox

You can now refresh the recommended apps in the start menu:

image

Source: Round Checkbox

You can read more about this release in the official blog post.

Insider Preview Build 22489

This build introduces some new features:

New Microsoft account settings page

Microsoft added a new settings page with an overview of your Microsoft 365 subscription.

new settings page

Source: Microsoft

This feature gets slowly rolled out to the users.

You can read about the other changes in the offical blogpost.

New Windows 10 Release Preview Channel updates

PowerToys Release 0.49

Microsoft released the new 0.49.0 update and the 0.49.1 hotfix for this update.

This release introduces a new UI for PowerRename:

PowerRename UI

Source: Round Checkbox

Video conference mute was added to stable and the new Find My mouse utility was added.

You can read more about this release in the changelog.

Written on October 30, 2021