{"id":468847,"date":"2026-05-27T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468847\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:55:12","slug":"microsoft-issues-the-week-d-preview-updates-for-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468847\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Issues the Week D Preview Updates for Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/week-d.jpg\" alt=\"Week D\" width=\"1066\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p md-focus\">It\u2019s the Tuesday of Week D on the Windows Update schedule, and we all know what that means: New preview updates ahead of the Patch Tuesday in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\">As per recent months, those on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 can optionally install the same update, in this case <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/may-26-2026-kb5089573-os-builds-26200-8524-and-26100-8524-preview-f378c8ae-0170-47c9-a1e9-dfef978c8e17#id0ebdl=normal_rollout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KB5089573<\/a>, which will bring the OS up to builds 26100.8524 and 26200.8524, respectively. And unlike in recent months, those on Windows 11 version 26H1 are no longer a month behind: You can install <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/may-26-2026-kb5089570-os-build-28000-2179-preview-89993979-7bd9-4e57-aa33-588c7780addb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KB5089570<\/a>, which will upgrade the OS to build 28000.2179. Key new features and changes in these updates are the same across the board and include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\">Shared audio support over Bluetooth LE<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\">Multi-app camera support<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\">Choose a custom name for your user folder during Windows Setup<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\">Improvements to Magnifier, Secure Boot (in Windows Security), Task Manager, Windows Hello, and Windows Search<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\">Performance improvements for app and core system experiences<\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p md-focus\">Reliability improvements for the sign-in and Lock screens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Tuesday of Week D on the Windows Update schedule, and we all know what that means:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80,202600],"class_list":["post-468847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-week-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}