News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support Thanks to the end of the holiday season in the U.S., this was quite an eventful week in the world of Microsoft with news items ranging from CES to Windows 11, to Exchange Server Y2K22 bugs.
We are at the close of yet another week, which means that it is time to recap what happened in the Microsoft-verse in the past few days. With the holiday season out of the way, the flow of news once again returned to normal and there is lots to cover including an Exchange anomaly, some Windows 11 updates, and a few CES announcements. Without further ado, let’s dive into the weekly digest for January 1 – January 7. This was quite an interesting week for Windows 11 users. People on the Dev Channel were treated to build 22526, which brings a bunch of changes including a new ALT + TAB experience, indexing of more files locations, and a long list of bug fixes that you can view in detail here. Meanwhile, the revamped Notepad began rolling out to Beta Channel Insiders. This iteration of the classic app features a dark mode, Mica material theme, and rounded corners. There are a couple of known issues though which you should check out here. There were also non-conflicting reports of the redesigned Media Player app rolling out to non-Insiders, and while we haven’t been able to confirm this yet, we do have a workaround to install the software on a general Windows 11 release. If you do want to give it a whirl, do keep in mind that this is an unofficial workaround and will replace Groove Music, so proceed at your own risk. We also talked about how there are five configurations of Surface devices that have still not received Windows 11 driver packages, even though they support the OS. On the other hand, Windows 10 Enterprise customers should know that Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for certain configurations to resolve Remote Desktop server reachability and performance issues.
