- Microsoft’s planned big changes to Windows 11 are coming soon
- The test starts “this month and throughout April”
- Updates packing the new features will arrive “this month and every month this year,” we’re told, so all this work won’t be dumped on us at once in the 26H2 update
Windows 11’s big incoming changes, announced over the weekend, will start happening sooner than I thought — right from the start, in fact.
Windows Latest reports that work to fix many of the biggest pain points in Windows 11 — including taskbar relocation, RAM usage, update-related issues and more — is starting right now.
Pavan Davuluri, head of Windows at Microsoft, said on X that: “We will start previewing the first changes described in our blog in builds with Windows Insiders this month and throughout April.”
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We should then see some of this fine-tuning work go into the next Windows 11 preview.
Windows Latest also spotted Scott Hanselman, who is a VP, member of the technical staff at Microsoft – and has been appointed to be part of this project – noted the X that updates packing these features will arrive “this month and every month this year”.
Windows Latest further highlights that one of the improvements Microsoft will make that has flown under the radar concerns wireless connections. Specifically, we’re told that: “One of the priorities is to build a new experience that allows you to pair and use Bluetooth more easily and in a faster way.”
Hopefully that will mean less peeling all around when using Bluetooth devices with Windows 11.
Analysis: quick fix – hopefully no breakage
It was inevitable that there would be a fair amount of cynicism around Microsoft’s recent unveiling of a whole bunch of exciting changes coming to Windows 11. Part of the mood on social media is a strong current to the effect of ‘talk is all right, but I’ll believe it when I see it’ – and I can sympathize with that point of view.
Even Scott Hanselman acknowledges that this is a fair enough comment, and the good news is that the CEO seems confident that Microsoft will deliver on its promises here.
If we get this working via updates every month, we will soon be able to see the truth about this. It’s also interesting that Microsoft’s plan seems to be to roll out these improvements on a month-by-month basis and not save everything for deployment all at once in the annual update (which will be version 26H2 for most PCs anyway).
However, keep in mind that the new stuff coming in preview is one thing, and the full rollout is another. I’d imagine testing some of these changes will be a lengthy activity, shall we say, and Microsoft is piling a lot on its development plate here. We know that bugs can creep into Windows 11, even with simple updates, and there will be a lot of potential breaks as this project develops, which could slow down progress.
In short, temper your expectations, but it’s undeniable that Microsoft is on the right track here (and as I discussed yesterday, you can probably thank the MacBook Neo for the urgency Microsoft seems to have around this work now).
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