Microsoft announced the release and availability of its Windows 11 2022 update, the first major update to Windows 11 since the OS launched last year. This comes with several changes mostly focusing on innovation in a few key areas:
- Making the PC easier and safer to use for everyone: To anticipate your needs and save you time, this release includes updates to the Start Menu, more accurate searches, Quick Settings, Widgets board improvements, and more.
- New accessibility features include System Wide live captions to automatically generate captions from any form of audio content on Windows 11, voice access (preview) allows you to control your PC and author text using only your voice, and Natural Voices for Narrator mirrors natural speech more closely, creating more pleasant-sounding audio to assist in reading or browsing the web.
- Empower people to be more productive: With enhancements to Snap layouts, new Focus sessions, Do Not Disturb and performance and battery optimisations, the Windows 11 2022 Update will help you be your most productive self.
- Making Windows the best place to connect, create and play: The Windows 11 2022 Update has Windows Studio Effects to improve video and audio calls, updates to the Microsoft Store experience, additional gaming features, and more.
- This update will enhance the Microsoft Store experience, including a Microsoft Store Ads pilot for developers and expansion of the Amazon Appstore in international markets, bringing over 20,000 Android apps and games to customers.
- Game Pass is built right into Windows 11 through the Xbox app, where players can access hundreds of high-quality PC games.
- With a new Controller bar, optimisations for windowed games, and new HDR calibration options, you’ll now have more gaming features than ever before on PCs running Windows 11.
- Delivering added security, management, and flexibility to the workplace: To meet the needs of this increasingly complex landscape, the new Windows 11 2022 Update delivers the critically important new security features and new management tools for increased IT efficiency.
- Microsoft Defender SmartScreen will help identify when a user enters their credentials into a malicious application and alerts them.
- Smart App Control blocks untrusted or unsigned applications, script files, and malicious macros from running on Windows 11.
See the company’s blog for more information on the Windows 11 2022 Update.
