Microsoft propose une nouvelle Preview de Windows 11, la build 22579. Elle introduit une nouveauté, des améliorations et quelques modifications. Le géant en profite pour mettre en jour certaines applications natives comme le lecteur multimédia et Mon Téléphone.
Déployée au travers du canal DEV du programme Windows Insider, Windows 11 build 22579 introduit une nouvelle stratégie. Visant les administrateurs informatiques, elle permet d’exclure les lecteurs amovibles USB du chiffrement BitLocker. La firme explique que cette nouveauté est une solution pour:
“résoudre le problème du cryptage automatique ou accidentel du stockage intégré dans des appareils spécialisés tels que les caméras vidéo, les enregistreurs vocaux, les systèmes de conférence, les dispositifs médicaux et bien d’autres.”
Concrètement, lorsque cette stratégie est activée il n’est plus possible de chiffrer le stockage figurant sur une liste d’exclusion. L’utilisateur ne sera plus invité à le faire lors de la connexion de l’appareil. La stratégie « Refuser l’accès en écriture aux lecteurs amovibles non protégés par BitLocker » sera activée.
Windows 11 build 22579, les améliorations et changements
De coté des changements et améliorations, Microsoft poursuit son travail sur le design de Windows 11. Par exemple, les applications Win32 qui utilisent CPrintDialog affichent désormais la boîte de dialogue d’impression au look « moderne ». Cette dernière détecte automatiquement les imprimantes du réseau local. Si vous choisissez une nouvelle imprimante, elle sera installée sans que vous ayez besoin d’aller dans Paramètres.
Nous avons un rétropédalage concernant la refonte de la boîte de dialogue Ouvrir qui a commencé à se déployer avec le Build 22567. La firme explique que la conception précédente est rétablie par des raisons de performances. Des problèmes ont été identifiés et demandent des solutions avant de poursuivre le déploiement. La loupe et le clavier à l’écran profitent de nouvelles icônes au style Fluent design. Le menu WIN + X est mis à jour pour pointer vers Windows PowerShell si Terminal Windows n’est pas installé.
Le fait le plus marquant concerne le menu démarrer.
Il est possible désormais de nommer les dossiers d’applications présents dans l’écran d’accueil.
Microsoft propose aussi des changements au niveau des gestes tactiles multi-doigts. L’utilisation de trois doigts pour glisser vers la gauche et la droite permet de basculer entre les fenêtres récemment utilisées.
Au niveau du gestionnaire des tâches, le bouton Exécuter une nouvelle tâche est maintenant disponible sur toutes les pages.
A tout ceci s’ajoute une longue liste de corrections de bugs. Elles visent le système d’exploitation dans son ensemble, la barre des tâches en mode tablette, le menu démarrer, Focus ou encore des Entrée, Paramètres, le fenêtrage, le réseau, l’accès vocal, les sous-titres en direct, le narrateur et la gestionnaire des tâches.
Enfin nous sommes dans le cadre du programme Windows Insider et plus particulièrement sur le canal DEV. L’OS est donc proposé à des fins de test, il ne peut être considéré comme SUFFISAMMENT stable et performant pour prendre place sur un PC de production. Microsoft annonce plusieurs problèmes connus et sans solution.
Note de version – correctifs et bug connus
Fixes
[General]
- Addressed an issue which was causing Gaming Services to not work in the previous flight, leading to issues launching and installing some games.
- Fixed a few high hitting explorer.exe crashes impacting recent flights during general usage of Windows.
- Fixed a bug for Windows Insiders trying to upgrade directly from Windows 10 to recent Windows 11 Dev Channel builds.
[Tablet-optimized taskbar]
NOTE: These fixes will only show if tablet-optimized taskbar is enabled on your device, which is beginning to roll out to Windows Insiders and not yet available for everyone.
- It’s no longer necessary to swipe twice from the tablet-optimized taskbar to show Start or Quick Settings – once the taskbar is fully expanded, these will display with a continued swipe upwards.
- Addressed an issue where using the swipe gesture to invoke the Start menu might bring it up on the wrong screen if an external monitor was connected.
- Notifications will no longer overlap with the tablet-optimized taskbar.
- Fixed an issue where if you invoked Task View the Desktops area might not render completely.
- Middle clicking an app icon to launch a new instance of that app should work again now.
[Start menu]
- Fixed an issue where Start’s folders were still showing animations even if you had animation effects disabled.
- Mitigated an issue that was causing Start’s pinned and folders layouts to get reset to default after explorer.exe restarts.
- Addressed an underlying issue leading to a transparent line along the side of the Start menu when changing your display’s scale.
[Focus]
- You’ll now see the same breaks in focus sessions over 30 minutes started from the Notification Center as you would in sessions started from the Clock app.
- If Do not disturb is turned on prior to starting a focus session, stopping the focus session will no longer turn off Do not disturb.
- If you turn on a focus session, it will not be reset if you have to log out or reboot now.
- Fixed an issue causing your keyboard focus to unexpectedly move to the top of Notification Center when ending a focus session below the calendar.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing you from adding apps to the Settings > System > Notifications > Set priority notifications
[Input]
- Fixed an issue where the enraged face emoji wasn’t searchable in Turkish using the word angry (kızgın). Please continue giving feedback about the emoji search results under Input and Language > Emoji Panel in the Feedback Hub!
- Addressed an issue where the Japanese IME was unexpectedly switching to Katakana mode when focus was set to the UAC dialog.
- Mitigated an issue recently where if you removed a third party IME from that language in Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region and didn’t uninstall it, it might still show in the input switcher.
- Fixed an issue which was causing the mouse to be invisible in fields of certain apps, as well as some unexpected cursor related app crashes in recent flights.
- Addressed an issue where the gesture for bringing in the Notification Center from the side of the screen wasn’t working for the Arabic or Hebrew display languages.
[Settings]
- Fixed an issue for the header at the top of Network & Internet, where the chevron was backwards for Arabic and Hebrew display languages.
[Windowing]
- If transparency is off under Settings > Personalization > Colors, the background of ALT + Tab will no longer be transparent.
- If you drag a window to the top of the screen and then drag it back down, the dismiss animation for snap layouts will display more consistently now.
- Made a small adjustment to fix an animation glitch when invoking snap layouts at the top of the screen.
- Fixed an explorer.exe crash which was happening when dragging certain windows across snap layouts at the top of the screen.
- Mitigated an issue which was causing Task View to appear unresponsive if you invoked Task View while snap assist was showing on screen.
- Did some work to address an issue where ALT + Tab might get stuck open if you invoked it via a very quick gesture on your touchpad.
- Fixed an explorer.exe crash that could happen when an app goes in and out of full screen mode.
[Network]
- Mitigated an issue leading to cellular connections not working on certain devices in the last few builds.
- Addressed an issue leading to Wi-Fi speed degradation in the previous flight.
[Voice access]
- Fixed an issue that was causing the voice access banner to block the top row of desktop icons or the top of full-screen applications.
[Live captions]
- Live captions will now show across your Desktops.
- The “floating on screen” window position will now correctly show as selected in the settings flyout if the live captions window was forced to float (for example when using a full screen app).
- The maximum height of the live captions window is now capped at 40% of monitor height.
- Live captions will no longer crash upon shrinking a max height live captions window.
- Toggling mono audio will no longer crash live captions.
[Narrator]
- Fixed an issue with how Narrator read out collapsed sections in Settings > Accessibility > Narrator when navigating using Shift + Tab.
[Task Manager]
- Fixed a few high hitting Task Manager crashes.
- Fixed an issue where if focus was inside the Details page and you started typing, focus would stop moving through the processes list after the first letter.
- If you’re using the Performance page in Summary view, the title bar of Task Manager will now be hidden.
[Other]
- The percentage on the volume flyout that shows when using your hardware keys will now be centered in the design consistently.
- Improved how keyboard focus and navigation works when moving through and closing the accessibility options on the Lock screen.
NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.
Known issues
[Tablet-optimized taskbar]
- The taskbar doesn’t always automatically collapse after launching an app or tapping outside of the expanded taskbar on 2-in-1 devices.
- Some areas of the OS are not yet tracking the height of the expanded taskbar on 2-in-1 devices so you may see overlapping components, such as Widgets overlapping with the taskbar.
[File Explorer]
- Opening suggested results shown while entering search terms in File Explorer’s search box may not work.
- We’re working fixing issues regarding icon sizing, visual bugs, and text clipping in the flyout showing OneDrive storage.
[Widgets]
- Sometimes when pinning from the Feed, the pinned widget is placed at the top instead of below other pinned widgets. If this happens this will autocorrect within 30 minutes, moving the recently pinned widget to the expected default location. Or you can sign out of your Widgets board and immediately signing back in should correct the problem.
- After rearranging widgets in the widgets board, some users experience problems with widgets in the pinned section rendering incorrectly. If this happens, signing out of your widgets board and immediately signing back in should correct the problem.
[Focus]
- The Clock app does not yet update Windows Focus state when configuring focus sessions within the app. This will be addressed in a future app update.
[Narrator]
- Natural voices are breaking up sporadically in the latest build. Restart Narrator to resolve the issue.
[Live captions]
- Certain apps in full screen (e.g., video players) prevent live captions from being visible.
- Certain apps positioned near the top of the screen and closed before live captions is run will re-launch behind the live captions window positioned at top. Use the system menu (ALT + Spacebar) while the app has focus to move the app’s window further down.
- The very top of maximized apps (e.g., title bar window management buttons) can’t be reached with touch while live captions is positioned at the top.
[Task Manager]
- Some tooltips do not accurately display the preferred visual setting when Task Manager is configured for dark mode.
