Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Microsoft finally makes Windows Subsystem for Android available in more countries. Until now, it was officially available in the US and Japan. The company expands this tiny list to total 31 countries.

If the official announcement of Windows 11 version 22H2, "Windows 11 2022 Update", Microsoft actually confirmed that they will now use "Moments" to release new features and improvements more frequently. The new features will not be tied to annual major updates.

So, rumors where right - Microsoft today made Windows 11 version 22H2 available to everyone. The new version is dubbed as "Windows 11 2022 Update", and is available in 190+ countries.

With recent Windows 11 builds, Microsoft is testing a new feature that displays notification badges for Widgets. When a widget receives an important information to display, it may make the widget button show a notification counter to attract user's attention.

Microsoft is ready to ship Windows 11 version 22H2 to the public. The company prepares official ISO images for download. Meanwhile, some vendors already ship their new devices with Windows 11 22H2 preinstalled.

Besides the officially announced changes, Windows 11 build 25201 includes a number of hidden gems. Being hidden from the eye of the user, there are new Rename this PC and date-time editor dialog boxes with touches of the new Windows 11 design. Let's review how to enable them.

One of the changes in Windows 11 build 25201 is the updated Widgets pane which you can expand full-screen. However, this change, like many others that recently became available in Dev builds, is visible to a small group of Insiders. If you want to test it right now but it doesn't appear for you, here are the steps to enable it.

This month's WSA update for Windows 11 comes with several improvements. It includes Chromium WebView version 104 and changes made to the subsystem, so it performs faster. Besides, there are several quality of life and reliability improvements.

Besides the new Release Preview build of Windows 11, Microsoft has also updated Windows 10 with new features. The company released KB5017380, Build 19044.2075, to Insiders on the Release Preview channel that adds new options to the taskbar properties in Settings, disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1, and several fixes. There's no word from the company on when they plan to release a newer Windows 10 22H2 version.

Microsoft has released a new patch for Windows 11.  KB5017383, currently in preview, raises the OS Build number to 22000.1041. Since it is a preview update, you must install it from the optional updates section in the Settings app. Here are the changes it comes with.