Two more feature reached their end of support this year. Windows Mixed Reality and Defender Application Guard for Edge are now listed on the deprecated features in Windows 11.
Microsoft has integrated Speedtest by Ookla into Bing
Microsoft has swapped out Bing's own speed test feature with the Ookla Speedtest widget. This widget enables users to measure their download speed, upload speed, and connection latency.
Suno’s Copilot plugin can create songs and music on demand
Microsoft and Suno have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence music creation to the masses. Through their partnership, Microsoft Copilot now features a tool to create songs from text prompts, powered by Suno's AI algorithms.
Microsoft Edge 121 finally enables AVIF support out of the box
After months of development, Microsoft has finally enabled AVIF support in the Edge browser. Now Edge stands in line with all mainstream browsers, as Firefox and Chrome support it for long.
Confirmed: December Updates cause Wi-Fi connection problems in Windows 11
Some Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 users are experiencing Wi-Fi connectivity issues after installing the December 12, 2023 monthly cumulative update KB5033375. They report that the problem only affects corporate wireless networks with the seamless Wi-Fi roaming feature enabled, which ensures a smooth transition between access points.
Firefox 121 supports AV1, improves PDF viewer
Firefox 121 stable is now available for download. It includes support for AV1 with hardware acceleration, a recycle bin icon in PDF viewer to quickly remove annotations, and fixes 27 vulnerabilities. In addition, Firefox ESR has reached version 115.6.0, and Firefox 122 enters Beta.
AI-powered rename suggestions are coming to Visual Studio
Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Visual Studio Preview projects, allowing developers to use AI-powered smart renaming with the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. This option allows developers to choose new names for variables, methods, and classes from suggested lists provided by Copilot Chat, based on their coding style.
After a year, Microsoft has finally fixed the File Explorer auto-opening bug
Microsoft has finally resolved an annoying problem with File Explorer that has been plaguing users for over a year. The issue, which caused the application to unexpectedly open and disrupt attention from other programs, was first reported by numerous users on the Feedback Hub in October 2022. This frustrating bug occurred regularly, every hour, and became a major inconvenience for those using the file manager.
Super Drag Drop in Edge allows opening links in a new tab faster
You can now enable the Super Drag Drop feature in Microsoft Edge, so it will allow you to open any link in a new tab by dragging it aside. This works not only for links but for a text selection too. The latter will make Edge search for the text in a new tab. And it also works for images.
Microsoft has fixed the bug that renames all printers to HP products
Microsoft released update KB5034510 on December 15, 2023, to address a bug in Windows 10/11 where all printers were being renamed to HP products. The patch file for fixing the printer renaming issue in 64-bit versions of Windows 11 is named PrintMetadataTroubleshooterX64.exe and has a size of 240 kilobytes.
