- Windows 11 24h2 has just received an optional update
- It has some new features and interesting corrections, but it also brings an ad.
- It is likely that this PC Jame Pass ad in the configuration application will reach all Windows 11 users next month with the March patch
Microsoft has implemented a new (optional) patch for Windows 11 24h2 and does an important job, introducing some useful touches and critical solutions, but there is a capture in which an announcement has been diverted here.
I say that the announcement, Microsoft, would certainly call it a recommendation, but it is about pushing other company services, any label that suffers it. And in the case of this new KB552093 pre -view update, it is for PC Game Pass, and you will see it in the configuration application.
Microsoft explains: “Some of you can see a new reference card for a Game Pass PC subscription on the configuration home page. With him, you can invite friends and family to try PC Game Pass for free. If you qualify, the card only appears when you log in to your PC using your Microsoft account “.
Other additions will be much less controversial, as a useful capacity to share files from a list of jumps in the taskbar. (If right click on an application in the taskbar, the menu that appears is the list of jumps, which allows rapid access to several useful functions sensitive to context).
There is also some laudable work in accessibility bets, with a narrator who obtains new fragments of functionality with his scanning mode, such as a shortcut to ‘jump the link beyond’ that will lead him directly to the text after a link that It allows you to jump directly to a list in a document.
Microsoft has also changed Windows 11 to allow several applications to access a webcam simultaneously. As the company explains, this has been developed for people with hearing impairment to allow “video transmission for both sign language interpreter and the final audience at the same time.”
Here there are also a lot of errors corrections, with many rays with the file explorer (the windows that show their folders and files in them). Some of the most important priests include ensuring that the context menu invoked with a right click does not appear slowly when working with cloud files and improved performance by opening folders that have a lot of multimedia files.
Problems with scanners with the scanners that are not being recognized correctly, and an error that caused the volume of the system to be reduced to the maximum when the PC is wake up from the sleep has crushed (an unwanted intrusion that undoubtedly is undoubtedly He woke the owner of the computer on some occasions, as well as in the system). In fact, Windows 11 has suffered a series of errors related to audio in the recent past.
Analysis: Optional becomes mandatory next month, and that probably includes this new announcement
As I described earlier this week, it is evident that File Explorer needs considerable work in his Windows 11 incarnation, and it is good to see that some of that happens here. And the accessibility changes are obviously welcome, since this is an area in which Microsoft continues to obtain well, so everything is fine.
The not so good is that announcement, of course. The advertisement of the game pass was recently seen in Beta compilations of Windows 11, when I realized a little about it, and unfortunately, it seems to be very quickly automating the launching version of the Microsoft operating system. This previous view update for February is not something that has to be installed, it is optional, but it will be transformed into the March patch for Windows 11 next month. At that time, you willpower I have to download it (and it is unlikely that the announcement will be eliminated at the last minute).
It is true that the announcement will not appear for everyone, only those signed in a Microsoft account that are subscribers of PC Game Pass. And possibly, you may even want to give your friends a free service test (for two weeks), so you can join you to address some of the best cooperative games, maybe. But still, I cannot avoid feeling frustrated with Microsoft that continues to drive their own services in parts of the Windows 11 interface, when this is an operating system for which people have already paid great money.
If Windows 11 were completely free (not only for Windows 10 updates), then advertisement support would be fine and perfectly understandable, but it is not free, so users are getting the worst of both worlds. And I have never understood why Microsoft doesn’t understand this.
Clearly, however, things are not going to change for the foreseeable, since the advertisements integrated in the form of recommendations or suggestions is an angle that Microsoft seems to be destined to explore more frequently these days.
