{"id":702895,"date":"2026-05-29T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:26:10","slug":"microsoft-provides-an-update-on-windows-11-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702895\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Provides an Update on Windows 11 Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/davuluri-ash.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft Provides an Update on Windows 11 Quality\" width=\"1066\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is documenting the improvements it\u2019s made to Windows 11 this year, and it launched a new podcast to help do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the theme this month is momentum,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2026\/05\/29\/windows-quality-update-may\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\u2019s Marcus Ash writes in a new post to the Windows Insider Program blog<\/a>. \u201cSome of that momentum is in performance. Some of it is in craft, the small details that make Windows feel more polished, more predictable, and more personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a quick recap, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/a-i\/332203\/microsoft-pledges-to-address-pain-points-reported-by-windows-11-users\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft president Pavan Davuluri first publicly promised to address the \u201cpain points\u201d in Windows 11<\/a> back in late January. This wasn\u2019t really the start of this effort, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/windows-11\/332565\/something-happened\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I had seen evidence of positive changes as long ago as late 2025<\/a>. But in the ensuing months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/334044\/heres-how-microsoft-plans-to-improve-windows-11s-performance-and-reliability-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davuluri provided more specifics about the ways in which his team would improve Windows 11<\/a>. And then it just started happening, largely through the Windows Insider Program so far, though we\u2019ve seen improvements in stable too. Some of the bigger improvements so far include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/windows-11\/335338\/hands-on-the-new-windows-insider-program-and-windows-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changes to the Insider Program itself and Windows Update<\/a> in April and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/336159\/windows-insiders-on-the-experimental-channel-can-try-alternative-taskbar-positions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Taskbar in May<\/a>, all in the Insider Program. And now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/336747\/start-menu-improvements-are-available-for-testing-on-the-experimental-channel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">today\u2019s latest Insider builds include changes to Start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside this release, Marcus provided an update about the changes Microsoft is making throughout Windows 11, with a focus on the work done this past month. He highlights the Taskbar and Start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/windows-11\/336064\/microsoft-announces-driver-quality-initiative-for-windows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the driver improvements Microsoft announced at WinHEC<\/a>, changes to Cloud Initiated Driver Recovery, File Explorer reliability, readability, and usability improvements, and Accessibility updates. And he points to Microsoft Build next week, noting that the company will \u201cshare more about what [its] doing to elevate the developer experience across the Windows platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tied to this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJcYLlDP4tI&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft also unveiled the first episode of its new Inside Windows video podcast<\/a>, in which Davuluri basically interviews Ash about the changes noted above. There\u2019s no new information per se, but the two do say that addressing the pain points from Davuluri\u2019s earlier announcement is just the start and that further refinements are on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is documenting the improvements it\u2019s made to Windows 11 this year, and it launched a new podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105,342169],"class_list":["post-702895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-windows-insider-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}