So it's been a while since Microsoft initially released the Windows 11
insider previews that anyone can install on their computer to get a, either
developer or beta version of Windows 11.
And actually they've been making changes and adding stuff
since then, a month or two ago.
So I figured what we'll talk about in this video are
what those changes are.
There's some new visual changes on some programs, as well, some outright new
features, and we can go over all of those.
Now, one big thing that Microsoft just released most recently, it's not really
a feature, but I think it still counts, is they now have the ISO's files.
You can download for Windows 11 to install as in like a clean install before.
This was not possible.
You had to you set up the Windows Insider program, sign up for it on a
computer, and then it would upgrade your Windows 10 to Windows 11.
But now with these ISOs You can actually do a clean install of either
to the developer or beta version of Windows 11 directly onto a computer.
This is kind of a big deal.
Now later on in the video I will do a walkthrough and show you
the actual installation process.
It's called the Out Of Box Experience.
I'll go through it relatively quickly.
I'm not going to drag it out or anything, but I do want to point out
that you do need to be still part of the windows 11 Insider program
to get these ISO files.
Again, it's free, you just enable it on your computer.
But if you try to go to the ISO download page, it's going to tell you to log in.
Now you probably can get the ISO from elsewhere.
People have probably uploaded it.
I'm just talking about the official page.
Alright so now let's get into some actual updates.
First, we'll go over the one from the previous one, which is about
last week at the time recording.
And then also the most recent one from like just a day ago.
And we can go over basically all the main changes those have been since
they released the initial preview.
First up, there is a new snipping tool.
So you probably know in Vista and even Windows 7, there was the snipping tool
for taking screenshots in Windows.
Then they replaced that and updated it with the Snip And Sketch tool.
Well, now they're replacing both of them with a new Snipping Tool and it
pretty much is exactly the same as the Snip and Sketch tool, just renamed and
visually updated, so the big change is first that it is visually updated
to more be like the Windows 11 design theme, but they also added some other
basic stuff, like a new settings page.
But for overall it kind of behaves exactly how you would expect the
current Snip and Sketch tool.
You can still do stuff like annotating the images after you take a screenshot,
that sort of thing, so really useful.
The other apps that were updated in that update were the calculator,
mail, and calendar apps.
So the mail and calendar apps pretty much just got a visual upgrade, to
again, be like the windows lemon design theme, not really any new features,
apparently that they mentioned at least.
So anything that is, is just going to be extremely minor.
And as for the calculator.
This one is actually a little bit more interesting because yes, they
of course updated the visuals to be consistent with Windows 11,
but apparently they also rewrote the program in C# programming language.
And also open-sourced it on GitHub.
I believe it has been open source for a while, but apparently they
rewrote it in C# and actually opened it up to be possibly contributed
by anyone who wants to on GitHub.
So if you are a programmer and you know how to write in C#, which
I believe is what a lot of .NET Microsoft stuff is based off of,
then you can go on.
If you want to add a feature, you can make a pull request, they'll maybe review it.
If it's good enough, it'll be actually added into the official
calculator app, who knows?
So that's kind of cool.
So those were the changes in the previous build.
Now we can get onto the ones in the most recent build, which
was released on August 19th.
There was one kind of minor really update.
And then there was one significant major feature update that they added,
which I'm kind of excited about.
So the minor one is a new widgets for families, I guess if you have family
accounts tied to your Microsoft account, you can just kind of keep track of stuff.
It's just on the widgets panel, nothing too exciting there, but I'm
glad that they're adding more widgets.
And again, I'm not a hundred percent sure if they'll allow third-party
widgets to be added, but it's good that they're adding more.
That's good hope for it.
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And with that being said, let's continue.
So the latest big new feature in the latest build of Windows 11 that they
were talking about on the blog pretty extensively, is for the clock app.
You're like, "What?
How is that possibly exciting?"
But hold on, it actually is.
Cause it's more than just the clock.
So of course there's the clock in the bottom right, I'm not talking
about that, but the actual clock app, that you open it up and it can do
other stuff like timer or whatever.
Of course that has new visuals in this Windows 11 update,
but also they added something
called Focus Sessions feature.
So the idea is you set this focus timer for whatever amount of time you want, and
then it will help you remove distractions and also kind of put you in a work mode.
For example, it can connect to your Spotify account and start playing a
dedicated playlist that you'd know helps you work better or something like that.
It'll connect to that as well as integrates with Microsoft To Do,
which is Microsoft's to-do list.
It has some other features besides that, but basically it allows
you to just keep track of stuff you have to do, check it off.
But what's also cool is with this focus session thing, you can also make stuff
like daily goals, and then it'll will show you how far along you are for that goal.
How much percentage you've accomplished, sort of as a way to like gamify it
so you can kind-of play against yourself and try to get stuff done.
And maybe this focus session mode will keep you reminded, like you see
that timer going, you stay on task, because you keep being reminded we're
in focus mode, that sort of thing.
So I think it's pretty cool.
And maybe there'll be adding additional features in the future to further
reduce distractions and stuff.
All right, so now let's see what this new Windows 11 Out
Of Box Experience looks like.
So I'll head right over to the computer and we can take a look.
All right.
So I created a virtual machine in Hyper V and added a virtual disc
drive with the ISO file in it.
And we can take a look what happened.
So currently the setup looks pretty similar to the previous one in Windows 10.
We can just hit next, install now, click "I don't have a product key".
And by the way, I'm skipping through all the dead time here.
We can choose, eh, let's go with Pro, why not.
We're going to do a custom install.
So I'll just fast forward until it's done here.
But so far it looks pretty much exactly the same as previous installations, but
I think when it's actually installed and then the first boot, up that's where
things are going to look different.
All right, so it finally installed, it took a little bit longer than
expected, but we can get right into it.
It looks like it's probably going to be pretty similar to the leaked
build, but we'll still go through it.
So choose the United States, yes.
Keyboard, yes.
No second keyboard.
Cool little animations, I must say, for the Wifi one.
I don't have an internet connection set up, so I don't have to worry
about it trying to update or anything.
Yeah, just use limited setup.
Password is very secure.
All right.
Do we have to really go through the...
Privacy settings so we can actually look through these, these are
probably decent to know about.
You get location stuff, find my device, diagnostic data, inking and typinjg,
these pretty much look like the same exact privacy settings in Windows 10.
So definitely something you'll want to look through and choose, since
I'm not even going to be using this computer, I'm not going to
bother disabling it or anything.
And that seems to be it.
That was it.
It was really quick, although it did say limited.
So if it was connected to the internet, there, might've been a little bit more.
Than it goes through and finishes up, and now we're in it.
So that pretty much covers the installation.
So, yeah, just cool that Microsoft is still adding features to Windows 11.
You know, there's nothing too groundbreaking that I've seen.
Nothing is like a must have, that will force me to update from Windows 10.
But you know, some nice stuff still.
But of course, if they do release anything groundbreaking, you can be sure
I'll talk about it until you guys.
But let me know what you guys think.
Are you kind of excited about this clock update?
Maybe you didn't even know there was a clock app.
We can talk about that down in the comments, along with anything else.
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