- Windows 11 24h2 has just received a new optional update
- He has new interesting features and fixes, but also brings an advertisement
- This PC Game Pass announcement in the Settings application will most likely arrive at all Windows 11 users next month with the Mars patch
Microsoft has deployed a new patch (optional) for Windows 11 24H2 and it does important job, by introducing useful keys and critical fixes – but there is an outlet that an advertised announcement.
I say announces, Microsoft would probably call it a recommendation, but it is a question of pushing other services of the company, whatever the label you save. And in the case of this new preview update KB5052093, it is for PC Game Pass, and you will see it in the Settings application.
Microsoft explains: “Some of you could see a new reference card for a PC Game Pass subscription on the settings page. With this, you can invite friends and family to try Game Pass for free for free. If you qualify, the card only appears when you connect to your PC using your Microsoft account. “”
Other additions will prove to be much less controversial, such as a useful capacity to be able to share files from a list of jumps on the taskbar. (If you right -click an application in the taskbar, the menu that appears is the list of jumps, allowing quick access to various useful functions sensitive to the context).
There is also commendable work in accessibility issues, with narrator obtaining new pieces of functionality with its scan mode, such as a shortcut to jump the link after ” which will take you directly to the text after a link, and another which allows you to jump directly on a list in a document.
Microsoft has also changed Windows 11 to allow several applications to simultaneously access a webcam. As the company explains, this has been developed for auditory disabled people to allow “video streaming for a sign language interpreter and the final public at the same time”.
There is also a bunch of bug corrections here, with a lot of DIY in progress with the file explorer (the windows displaying your folders and the files). Some of the most important remedies include the guarantee of the contextual menu invoked in a right click do not appear slowly when working with cloud files and improved performance when opening folders that have a large amount of multimedia files.
The problems of scanners are not properly recognized by Windows 11 were also resolved, and a bug which caused the maximum volume of the system to the maximum when the PC wakes up sleep was crushed (an unwanted intrusion which undoubtedly woke up the owner of the computer a few times, as well as the system). Indeed, Windows 11 has undergone a number of audio bound bugs in a recent past.
Analysis: Optional becomes compulsory next month, and this probably includes this new announcement
As I pointed out earlier this week, it is obvious that File Explorer needs considerable work in his Windows 11 incarnation, and it is good to see part of this happen here. And accessibility changes are obviously welcome, with an area in the region continues to mark well, so everything is fine.
The step so good is this announcement, of course. Game Pass’s announcement was recently spotted in Windows 11 beta constructions, when I made a little diatriber on this subject – and unfortunately, it seems that it happens very quickly in the version of the Microsoft operating system. This preview update for February is not something that you need to install – is optional – but it will turn into Mars patch for Windows 11 next month. When you will Must download it (and the advertisement will be deleted at the last minute).
Admittedly, the announcement will not appear for everyone, only those that have been connected to a Microsoft account which are PC Game Pass subscribers. And probably, you may even want to give your friends a free service trial (for two weeks), so that they can join you to tackle some of the best Coop games, perhaps. But still, I can’t help but feel frustrated by Microsoft who continues to push his own services in certain parts of the Windows 11 interface, when it comes to an operating system for which people have already paid part of the money.
If Windows 11 was completely free (not only for Windows 10 users), then supported advertising would be good and perfectly understandable – but it is not free, so users get the worst of both worlds. And I never really understood why Microsoft doesn’t understand that.
Obviously, however, things will not change for forecast, because the announcements integrated in the form of recommendations or suggestions are an angle that Microsoft seems determined to explore more often these days.
