In the last seven days, we’ve seen the release of official Windows 11 ISOs, the discovery of another security flaw, and even a higher-res Xbox dashboard. Be sure to catch up via our handy overview.
As the third full week of August is coming to a close, we take a look back at the various bits of Microsoft news that have surfaced during this time. Among them, the arrival of the first official Windows 11 ISOs (with Insider builds, that is), some new Xbox peripherals, and the ever-present security flaw discoveries. You can find out additional details about the aforementioned and other news below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of August 15 – 21. As hinted at by the Redmond giant, the various changes brought forth with Windows 11 are slowly but surely starting to appear. This week, the company teased an updated version of the Paint app, featuring newer icons, the expected rounded corners, and even dark mode support. Paint joins the already available to test newer Clock app, which made its debut via build 22000.160, which arrived in both the Dev and Beta Insider Preview channels. As always, the build also contains a number of known issues, which should be expected, given that it’s a test version we’re talking about here. Coinciding with the release of the build above is also the arrival of the first-ever dedicated Windows 11 ISOs, which contain build 22000.132. In case your VM – or if you’re testing this on actual hardware, your partition – is acting up, you can now clean install this Insider build to rule out any in-place upgrade related issues. In addition to the new build and the ISOs, you can also preview Windows 11 for Azure Virtual Desktop, with Microsoft confirming – along with Intel – that the upcoming operating system is optimized for the latter’s Alder Lake architecture, namely the big. LITTLE design which is similar to ARM chips. For those who do not want to (or can’t) upgrade to Windows 11, there’s also Windows 10 21H2, build 19044.1200 of which was also made available this week to Release Preview Insiders. It brings, along with a number of fixes, support for WPA3 H2E, a new deployment method for Windows Hello for Business, and GPU computer support in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW). It’s not all good news though, as the Default apps settings page in Windows 11 has caused the ire of the other browser makers.
