- The big changes planned by Microsoft for Windows 11 are coming soon
- Testing will begin “this month and throughout April”
- We’re told that updates that include the new features will arrive “this month and every month of this year,” so we won’t be dumped all of this work at once in the 26H2 update.
The big incoming changes to Windows 11 that Microsoft announced over the weekend will start happening faster than you thought; in fact, from the beginning.
Windows Latest reports that work to fix many of the major Windows 11 issues, including taskbar shaking, RAM consumption, update-related issues, and more, is starting right now.
Pavan Davuluri, head of Windows at Microsoft, said on X that: “We’ll start previewing the initial changes detailed on our blog in builds with Windows Insiders this month and throughout April.”
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So we should see some of this refinement work in the upcoming Windows 11 preview.
Windows Latest also discovered that Scott Hanselman, vice president and member of the technical staff at Microsoft, who has been recruited to be part of this project, noted in X that updates that include these features will arrive “this month and every month of this year.”
Windows Latest also highlights that one of the improvements that Microsoft is going to make that has gone unnoticed refers to wireless connections. Specifically, they tell us that: “One of the priorities is to create a new experience that allows you to pair and use Bluetooth more easily and quickly.”
Hopefully that will mean less flaking when using Bluetooth devices with Windows 11.
Analysis: Quick repair, hopefully no breaks
It was inevitable that there would be a lot of cynicism surrounding Microsoft’s recent reveal of a host of interesting changes coming to Windows 11. Part of the sentiment on social media is a strong undercurrent along the lines of “talk is all well and good, but I’ll believe it when I see it,” and I can sympathize with that point of view.
Even Hanselman acknowledges that this is a pretty fair comment, and the good news is that the executive seems confident that Microsoft will deliver on its promises.
If we can get this working through updates every month, we will soon be able to see the reality of 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 a one-time rollout in the annual update (which will be version 26H2, for most PCs, anyway).
However, remember that the new features that appear in the preview are one thing and the full release is another. I imagine testing some of these changes will be a drawn-out activity, let’s 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 many potential bugs as this project progresses, which may slow down progress.
In short, temper your expectations, but it’s undeniable that Microsoft is on the right track here (and as I commented yesterday, you can probably thank the MacBook Neo for the urgency Microsoft seems to have about this work now).
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