Liam Tung
| September 3, 2021 — 09:51 GMT (10:51 BST)
| Topic: Windows 11
Windows 11: Everything you need to know
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As Microsoft gears up to release Windows 11 on October 5, the software giant has confirmed reports of a glitch that meant key components in a preview of the OS didn’t work for some users.
The issues affected people participating in the Windows Insiders testing program in the bleeding edge Dev channel and the more stable Beta channel.
The preview builds of Windows 11 offers easily accessible controls for pinning Search, Task View, Widgets and Chat to the Windows Taskbar. What’s visible or hidden can be controlled from a right-click of the mouse on the Taskbar which brings up “Taskbar settings”.
Microsoft yesterday made Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 11 available to business for testing ahead of their releases.
Its free support for these preview builds should help businesses test and validate these builds before Windows 11’s general availability. Windows 10 21H2 will also likely be released around October.
There are new hardware requirements for Windows 11 that mean some PCs won’t immediately be suitable for the upgrade to it, but Windows 10 21H2 is available for these devices.
The latter OS isn’t a packed with new features and changes like Windows 11, but it will include better wi-fi security, improved Windows Hello biometric authentication, and the ability for Windows Subsystem for Linux to use graphics hardware for machine learning use cases.
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Liam Tung
| September 3, 2021 — 09:51 GMT (10:51 BST)
| Topic: Windows 11