Yesterday, alongside Windows 10 Mobile build 15226, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16226 for PCs in the Fast ring. The new PC build includes a ton of new features and improvements... and in fact, it actually has even more than we previously knew about.
Today, Microsoft"s Brandon LeBlanc said that a further section has been added to the release notes for build 16226, detailing the improvements that it"s added to the Windows Mixed Reality experience in its latest preview:
- The Mixed Reality software download issue has been fixed. The workaround that has been provided for the last flight can be removed. You could directly upgrade to Build 16226 and get the Mixed Reality software.
- 360 Video issue with video quality has also been fixed.
- New Teleportation Model also introduced in this flight, where we transitioned to a much easier teleportation and navigation model only using the left joystick.
- Speech improvements where we have improved the speech interaction experience through out Mixed Reality platform.
- Headset Reliability Improvement where we are going to continuously improve on this in future flights.
- We also fixed issues when trying to get out of limited mode.
- We fixed the issue where the Mixed Reality Portal does not shut down cleanly.
- We fixed the issue where Cortana now opens up apps correctly within the Mixed Reality environment.
- We fixed the issue where there is multiple gaze cursor in exclusive mode apps.
- We also fixed the issue where the Boundary is set smaller than the actual.
More information for Mixed Reality developers can be found here.
Microsoft also detailed a long list of known issues in build 16226 yesterday - and since then, it"s added two more to that list:
- ADDED: If you pinned any websites to your taskbar, those pinned websites won’t work. You will have to in-pin and re-pin your websites to the taskbar.
- ADDED 6/22: If you have certain languages installed, ctfmon.exe will do into a crash loop and typing on the Start menu and UWP apps will become impossible. Currently, the list of impacted languages we’re aware of is: Kiswahili (Kenya), Basque (Spain), Armenian, Estonian, Romansh (Switzerland), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Bulgarian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Irish, Latvian, Macedonian, Zulu South, Norwegian (Norsk), Hausa (Latin), Albanian, Afrikaans, Georgian, Uzbek (Latin), Slovenian, Bosnian (Latin), Konkani (India), Malay (Brunei), Xhosa (South Africa), Bangla (Bangladesh), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Australian English, Galician (Spain), Azerbaijani (Latin), Kazakh, and Lithuanian. The workaround is to uninstall the impacted language via Settings > Time & Language > Region & Language. From the list of languages, remove the ones from the list, if it’s the only one you have installed please install a language close to your language that’s not in the list.
You can check out the various new features in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview in our hands-on video of build 16226 here.