[DISCUSSION] Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25309.1000 (PC) [DEV Channel - rs_prerelease]

I read somewhere that in the new Insider builds it is possible to re-enable seconds in the taskbar. Who can confirm?

 

I see it it jst tells how many files you are listed.

 

I wanted to write that I had nearly given up on MS only concentrating on small screen laptops and FHD resolution. For bigger screens and 1440/2160p, the fonts and scaling are bad to horrible. And that is what is most important, as we dont look at a pure white screen, but text too. The native text rendering/gamma, etc in windows 11 22h2 is worse than in windows 11 21h2. Windows 10 has the best but it is ancient. Transparency brings its own problems. The upshot is that I personally work on windows 11 21h2 most of the time.

However it now seems to have changed for the better with 25309. The feature is auto color management (ACM). That can be enabled in 22H2 but the implementation is far superior in 25309. I do hope that MS improves on this and not just consider it done or deprecates/removes. For my 10 bit,27 inch, 4k monitor, the difference between enabling and disabling ACM is huge and ACM makes it far more pleasing. I do not tweak anything in my Nvidia control panel, and just hardware calibrate my monitor once every 500 hrs. I do not know what would be the difference in using it in sRGB mode, but using it in adobe rgb and native mode on monitor makes a substantial improvement in text quality and color.

 

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offline insider program has to be updated for this new channel

 

So who plans to jump to the Canary Channel & who will stay with the Dev_Channel?

• Canary Channel: 25000 series
• Dev Channel: 23000 series
• Beta Channel: 22000 series
• Release Preview: Released versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11

Unfortunately, those who want to remain on the Dev Channel will need to perform a clean-install which is usually the case when switching to a lower Channel. Those currently enrolled in the Beta Channel but want to test out newer features are recommended to join the Dev Channel instead; no clean-install needed.

 

Canary if i can

 

Moving to canary ASAP.

25309 being the first Canary build.


I predict an NT kernel version bump soon-ish...

 

Not seeing the Canary channel. Is it rolling out gradually?



Thanks!

 

Yep. Try rebooting your machine.

 

Yes Canary Option just showed up.
I have to deside what to do ???
I am on

22000 (Release Preview)
22624 (Beta_Channel)
25309 (Dev_Channel)

Will 22000 continue (Release Preview) or will Release Preview jump to 22624 ?

 

will see.
should be jumping on some channels.

 

We are now definitely, officially, testing Next Valley folks.
This change confirms my early suspicion that 25xxx builds ARE Next Valley builds.

Exciting times (and many system breakages) ahead!

 

I'd be surprised if the touch the NT kernel version, it will break a lot of stuff and isn't really necessary to update it from 10.

 

On their notes about this... they hinted major kernel changes.

Hopefully major enough to warrant a version bump.

My predictions:

NT kernel version 12.0 to match the product name;
ReFS replaces NTFS as default file system.

 

Anyone on Canary or got it, can share these two registry?

Code:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost\Applicability]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost\UI\Strings]

 

I'd send you a message. I hope that helps!

 

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Anyone knows what is the new Group Policy to automatically test new A/B features without enabling particular feature via Vivetool?