… Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path. …
Shekhar Vaidya May 28, 2026, 5:31 PM EDT Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. …
… The Dev build is one of the stages of the Insider program, sitting between the cutting-edge Canary build and the more stable Beta build. As such, this build won't be arriving on everyone's computers for a little while now, but it's good that Microsoft is working on it. …
Tanveer Singh Apr 7, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. …
… GitHub 16197 read more It's worth noting that the Canary channel is the very first stage of public testing for Windows builds, so it will be quite a while until this update goes through the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview builds and onto everyone's computer. …
… If you have Windows 11 build 26300.8289 installed, you can use Vivetool to enable feature ID 59728252 and see the new loading wheel for yourself. Otherwise, we'll just have to wait for Microsoft to activate the feature itself in a future build. …
… In the latest Experimental build, a hidden option re-adds the 'Refresh' button to the File Explorer right-click menu. …
… For example, a single “Build” command can trigger both client and server builds in parallel. …
… In a recent Windows build in the Insider Program, users noticed a hidden feature that enables a page in the Settings app called Feature flags . …
… Please be ready to report bugs; it's an experimental build. …