While the major Windows 11 annual update was released last month, there were some features
that were set to be released later, and those are now here. So if you want to get the features
mentioned in this video, what you can do is go to the update settings in Windows and check
for updates manually. You might manually have to choose to install this set of features, otherwise
it will slowly roll out and automatically update to people over the next several weeks.
But you can get it now manually. Now the first one is the big one,
and that is tabbed File Explorers. Now Windows Explorer, you open it up, it now has tabs. You
can click the plus icon to open a new one, it'll open to the default directory that
Explorer usually opens to, and also little x's appear on each one, so you can close it.
You can drag the tabs around, it's pretty basic. For example you can't drag from one
window to another window, and you can't drag it off the window to make it its own window,
so I wonder if they'll be adding to this in the future,
but hey I'm not going to complain. The next feature is Suggested actions,
which can be found in Settings > System > Clipboard, and then Suggested Actions.
And I think it's enabled by default, but if you want to toggle it here it is, and it says, get
suggestions when you copy a date, time, or phone number. And you can see how I was able to get this
to work with a date, you highlight it, and then you copy it, and then after you do that it may
pop up a suggestion, for example create an event, and then it would put that into your calendar.
Supposedly it works with phone numbers, I wasn't able to get it to do anything with phone numbers,
but that might be because it's app dependent, and I don't have any phone
related apps. Though do note for this one you might not get it immediately,
it does say timing of feature delivery varies by device, so this one might roll out in stages.
The next two features have to do with the taskbar, one is the taskbar overflow menu.
So now if you pin so many things to the taskbar that it overflows,
or maybe you just have a small screen, it will now present a little three dot
menu that you can click on, it shows a little jump menu with the rest of them.
So now you can pin as much stuff to the taskbar if you want. Another feature they added is if
you right click the taskbar there's a new shortcut to go to the Task Manager,
so you don't have to use the keyboard shortcuts, like Control + Shift + Escape. Now for me for
some reason this was not showing up in the virtual machine that I was testing this on,
so again this might be one that is rolling out depending on the device, or maybe this isn't
fully rolled out yet, I don't know, but I have to assume this will be coming soon.
Next up, an improvement to the sharing functionality. So you might know that
if you right click on a folder or file you can hit the share icon or
click the same button in the Windows Explorer, and then you'll see a menu,
for example you can share two nearby devices. And you can set that to My
Devices, so anything with the same Microsoft account logged in, Everyone, or Sharing Off.
And anyway, the improvement they just made is supposedly there are more devices that
can now be discovered through this nearby device feature. They didn't
seem to give more specifics or details, so I guess if you tried to use this in
the past and the computer or something didn't show up, maybe try it again.
Next we have a major update to the Photos app. Now technically this is not going to
roll out to everyone until the end of October, however if you go into your current Photos app
and under settings and then preview, you can actually join Photos Preview and get this new
version early. And I think the most notable new feature in this new Photos app is it actually
can pull from cloud services, so for example OneDrive and also iCloud even. So if you're
an iPhone user and you download the iCloud for Windows app from the Microsoft Store,
then you will be able to have your iCloud photos show up in the Photos app,
so that's kind of a nice way to maybe access your cloud photos from one place in this app.
Next up has to do with the Amazon App Store, that's what allows you to install Android apps
on Windows 11, and apparently they added way more apps. So before I believe there
was around 1000 apps you could install in Windows, now they increased that to over
50,000, and they've also rolled it out to 31 countries, so if you've been outside the United
States and you wanted to try Android apps on Windows, you might now be able to do that.
And finally for the new features, though I do have some additional stuff to talk about after this,
is some new entertainment apps in the Microsoft Store. Now normally I wouldn't really consider
this a feature and I wouldn't mention it, but it was in the update blog post. Anyway
there are some new apps such as ESPN, Hulu, Netflix, and a bunch of others you can see
that are now available in the Microsoft app store if you are interested in these.
Now one feature I want to mention, because I missed it in my video about the Windows 11 update,
is that you can now drag files into a program via its taskbar icon. So for some
reason that was not possible in Windows 11, even though it was in Windows 10,
but they finally added that. Now one future update I want to mention is apparently the
Snipping Tool is going to be getting new functionality, specifically to video record.
This hasn't been talked about in the blog post, however at the Microsoft Surface event
they showed a preview video of new features and this was one of them, and they showed it
quite prominently actually. So I have to assume that this is a feature that will be coming soon
at some point. Now finally I do want to mention the Windows Insider program, which if you want,
will allow you to get early versions of Windows builds before they're officially released.
So if you go into the Update settings in Windows, it'll show you an option to
join the Insider Program and it just involves choosing, yes, you want to do it and accepting
some terms. And then you'll have the option to join either the dev channel, the beta channel,
or the release preview channel, which is the one that I usually do because it's the most stable.
Though it does recommend the beta if you want to get early features, but an also
relatively stable build. And speaking of Windows Insider, fun fact you may not have known this,
Microsoft actually has a thing called Microsoft MVPs for a bunch of different categories
including Windows Insider and basically you can be nominated by a Microsoft employee or another
MVP and basically get this award by contributing to the tech community in general, so to speak.
And I found out about this because last year someone nominated me. I didn't even know about it,
so yes I'm technically a Microsoft MVP for the Windows Insider program. They gave me
a little trophy and everything, it's very cool. I'll have to make a whole
separate video about this, there's a lot more to it, but I figured I'd mention it.
So I'll put a link to info about the Windows Insider program if you want to get the early
build updates and also that MVP program if you want to read more about that. So if you enjoyed
this video be sure to give it a thumbs up and also let us know in the comments what is your
favorite new feature or maybe I missed another one completely, again we can talk about that.
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