Experimental Channel builds

What's being tested 3 new · 1 improved · 8 fixes

• New File Explorer Home: A Shared tab in File Explorer Home gives you access to files shared with your Microsoft account. Commercial users signed in with a Micr...
• New Magnifier: Press Ctrl + Alt + Minus to switch between your current zoom level and 1X zoom.
• New Magnifier: New buttons let you reset zoom to fit the screen or return to your last or preferred magnification.

What's being tested 2 new · 1 improved · 2 fixes

• New Windows Setup: Windows Setup shows a confirmation dialog when you format or delete partitions during installation.
• New Administrator protection: You can enable Administrator protection in Windows Security under Account Protection without help from IT. Windows home users can enabl...
• Improved Administrator protection: With Administrator protection enabled, the authorization prompt for untrusted and unsigned apps has larger color-coded areas extending...

What's being tested 1 new · 1 improved · 8 fixes

• New File Explorer: The navigation pane’s right-click menu includes a New Folder option.
• Improved Settings: Standard users can change time zones again in Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time.
• Fix File Explorer: In some cases, copying files no longer unexpectedly changes their date and time properties.

What's being tested 3 fixes

• Fix After rolling back from build 27764 to an earlier build, including after a failed upgrade, certain third-party apps can be used or inst...
• Fix The main issues behind increased rollbacks when upgrading have been addressed. Error code 0xc190010 has multiple root causes, so upgrad...
• Fix Taskbar & System Tray: Frequent crashes after a clean install or PC reset are fixed for some Canary Insiders.

What's being tested 1 new · 5 improved · 7 fixes

• New Narrator: Narrator scan mode adds shortcuts to skip past links and jump directly to lists in web pages and documents.
• Improved Start menu: Right-clicking a pinned app shows its jump list when the app has one.
• Improved Dynamic Lighting: When no compatible devices are connected, the settings page explains this and disables Brightness and Effects controls.

What's being tested 1 new · 1 improved · 10 fixes

• New Windows Camera Advanced Configurations: A new camera settings page lets multiple apps access the camera stream at the same time, or switches the camera to basic functionality...
• Improved Microsoft Store: You can update some Win32 apps from the Microsoft Store. Updates appear on the Downloads page or the app's product page and require you...
• Fix File Explorer: The search box no longer draws past the edge of the File Explorer window.

What's being tested 1 new · 3 improved · 9 fixes

• New Windows Hello: Windows Hello gets updated visuals on the sign-in screen and in other sign-in flows. The redesigned passkey screens make it easier to s...
• Improved Start menu and taskbar jump lists: Holding Shift and Ctrl while choosing an item in a Start menu or taskbar jump list launches it as administrator.
• Improved Taskbar previews: Taskbar app previews and the animations that show them are updated.

What's being tested 1 new · 1 improved · 14 fixes

• New Narrator: A new keyboard shortcut copies Narrator’s last spoken phrase to the clipboard.
• Improved Narrator: Narrator now reads the contents of mail in the new Outlook app automatically, as it does in Outlook classic.
• Fix File Explorer: Navigation pane items no longer have unexpectedly large gaps between them for some people.

What's being tested 2 new · 5 improved · 12 fixes

• New Prism: More 64-bit x86 apps and games can run under emulation on Windows on Arm.
• New Input: A new on-screen keyboard layout lets you navigate and type with an Xbox controller.
• Improved SDKs: SDKs are not planned for 27xxx series builds for the time being.

What's being tested 2 new · 3 fixes

• New Settings: You can choose which eligible app the Copilot key opens. The setting has no effect if your keyboard does not have a Copilot key.
• New Snipping Tool: You can copy structured table data from a screenshot using Copy as table. The feature works best when the screenshot contains one table...
• Fix Some games, including Microsoft Solitaire & Casual Games, no longer crash on launch after installing Build 27718 or later.

What's being tested 2 new · 2 improved

• New Search on the Taskbar: You can share a local file directly from the search results shown in the taskbar search box.
• New Fonts: A new simplified Chinese font adds characters including the one used for Biangbiang noodles.
• Improved Voice Access: Spelling and corrections work throughout a Voice Access session. You can dictate characters faster and use commands to select, delete,...

What's being tested 8 new · 5 improved · 9 fixes

• New Start menu: You can drag apps from the Start menu’s Pinned section to the taskbar.
• New Taskbar & System Tray: With keyboard focus on the taskbar, press a letter to jump to an app or window that starts with it. Press the letter again to move to a...
• New Notifications: You can turn off suggestions that ask you to disable notifications from certain apps.

What's being tested 3 new · 5 improved · 9 fixes

• New Windows Update and Start menu: Some Insiders see an estimate of how long their PC will be offline while installing the build, on the Windows Update settings page and...
• New Notifications: You can turn off suggestions to disable notifications, either from a suggestion's menu or in notification settings.
• New Windows Share: You can share content from the Windows share window to a paired Android device.

What's being tested 4 new · 5 improved · 7 fixes

• New Windows Sandbox Client Preview: The preview adds runtime clipboard redirection, audio/video input controls, folder sharing with the host, and early command-line suppor...
• New Settings: You can detach a virtual hard disk from its properties under Settings > System > Storage > Disks & Volumes.
• New HDR settings: On PCs with HDR displays, a new option allows HDR video streaming even when HDR is off.