- Windows 11 24H2 just received a new optional update
- It has some interesting new features and fixes, but also brings an ad
- The PC -Spil Pass -Nonce in the Settings app is very likely to be very likely to all Windows 11 users next month with march patch
Microsoft has implemented a new (optional) patch for Windows 11 24H2, and it performs some important work that introduces some useful touches and critical corrections – but there is a catch that an ad has been shown in here.
I say ad, Microsoft would undoubtedly call it a recommendation, but it’s about pushing other services from the company, no matter what brand you pin on it. And in the case of this new KB5052093 -PreView update, it’s for PC Game Pass and you’ll see it in the Settings app.
Microsoft explains: “Some of you may see a new referral card for a PC game pass subscription on the Settings page. With that you can invite friends and family to try PC Game Pass for free. If you qualify, the card will only appear when you log in to your PC using your Microsoft account. “
Other additions will prove to be much less controversial, such as a useful ability to share files from a jumping list on the taskbar. (If you right -click an app on the taskbar, the menu that appears is the hop plist, giving quick access to different useful features in a context -sensitive way).
There is also some commendable work in the availability effort, where the narrator gets fresh bit of functionality with his scanning state, such as a shortcut to ‘Skip Past Link’, which will take you directly to the text after a link, and someone else that allows you to jump right to a list in a document.
Microsoft has also changed Windows 11 to give more apps access to a webcam simultaneously. As the company explains, this has been developed for people with consultation disabilities to allow “video streaming to both a sign language interpreter and the end audience at the same time.”
There are also a lot of bug fixes here, with a lot of tinkering going on with File Explorer (the windows showing your folders and the files in them). Some of the more important couriers include ensuring that the context menu that is invoked with a right -click does not appear in a sluggish way when working with cloud files and improved the performance when you open folders that have a large amount of media files.
Problems with scanners that are not properly recognized by Windows 11 have also been resolved, and a mistake that caused the system volume to be ramped up to the maximum when the PC wakes from sleep has been squeezed (an unwelcome intrusion that without Doubt aroused the owner of the owner of the owner computer on a few occasions as well as the system). In fact, Windows 11 has a number of sound -related bugs in the recent past.
Analysis: Optional becomes mandatory next month and it probably includes this new ad
As I outlined earlier this week, it is clear that File Explorer needs some significant work in its Windows 11 Incarnation, and it’s good to see some of that happen here. And the accessibility changes are obviously welcome, where this is an area that Microsoft continues to score well, so it’s all good.
The non-so-good is, of course, that ad. The Game Pass ad was recently discovered in Beta Builds by Windows 11 as I went on a bit of a rant about it – and unfortunately it seems to be very quickly on the release version of Microsoft’s OS. This Preview update for February is not something you need to install – it’s optional – but it will be transformed into March -Patch into Windows 11 next month. At what time you will Have to download it (and the ad is unlikely to be removed at the last minute).
It is true that the ad does not appear to everyone, only those signed in a Microsoft account that is PC Game Pass subscribers. And without a doubt, you can even give your friends a free trial of the service (for two weeks) so they can help tackle some of the best Coop games, maybe. But still, I can’t help but feel frustrated that Microsoft continues to push its own services into parts of Windows 11 interface when this is an operating system that people have already paid a lot of money for.
If Windows 11 was completely free (not just for Windows 10 upgraders), ad-supported would be fine and perfectly understandable-but it’s not free, so instead users get the kind the worst of both worlds. And I’ve never quite understood why Microsoft doesn’t get this.
Obviously, things will not change for the clear ones that integrated ads in the form of recommendations or suggestions is an angle that Microsoft seems to be intended to explore more often these days.
