There"s not a whole lot that"s new here. The news and interests feature is coming to more locations; more specifically, it"s pretty much everywhere except for China. This build is also the first that replaces Edge Legacy with Edge Chromium, a change that won"t even be noticeable by most.
Perhaps most interesting is that the version number is being changed to Dev. Some people noted that while the Dev channel isn"t supposed to be tied to a release, it still has the old 2004 version number listed. So now, it"s official that this is not tied to a version of Windows 10.
Here"s the full changelog:
Expanding news and interests to more languages and markets
We’ve heard your feedback! Today we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding the news and interests experience on the taskbar to a broader set of international languages and markets. Previously, the experience was only available in United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and India. This now means that the news content, weather forecasts, sports and finance updates will be based on your location anywhere in the world!
News and interests will automatically detect your language and location, and deliver a localized experience consisting of content from local publishers and data providers.
Please let us know what you think and how we can make news and interests better through Feedback Hub (go to Desktop Environment > News and interests). The team is excited to hear what you think!
The experience is not yet available in China. We hope to bring this experience to customers soon.
As a reminder, we continue to roll out news and interests to Windows Insiders which means it isn’t available to everyone in the Dev Channel just yet.
The new Microsoft Edge to replaces Microsoft Edge Legacy
With the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21313, Microsoft Edge Legacy will be replaced by the new Microsoft Edge. This will be the case for Windows 10 Insider Preview builds moving forward.
With Microsoft Edge, it’s time to expect more. You get world-class performance, with more privacy, more productivity, and more value as you browse.
And if you’d like to try out upcoming features in Microsoft Edge, join the Microsoft Edge Insider Program. Be one of the first to see what’s new by downloading the Microsoft Edge Canary, Dev, or Beta channels from the Microsoft Edge Insider website.
Modernizing our IME candidate window design
An IME (Input Method Editor) is fundamental for typing East Asian languages, and leverages something we call a candidate window to enables users to insert characters efficiently. With recent releases of Windows 10, we started introducing new versions of our IMEs. Today, we’re excited to share the next part of those efforts – based on your feedback, the new candidate window offers:
A modern design – more aligned with our Fluent Design principles, including an acrylic background, a new selection visual, and dark theme support.
Optimized font size – we’ve adjusted the font size in the Candidate Window UI to minimize the intrusiveness while securing visibility.
Quick access to emoji – to help improve discoverability, we’re adding direct access to the Emoji Panel via a button from the candidate window UI. Please note: We are still working to improve the experience of this button. Currently the composition string is finalized when it is pressed.
Improved performance – input is at the core of how you interact with your PC, and we want to ensure you have the best possible experience as we roll out these changes.
For those unfamiliar with the previous design, it looked like this when you started typing:
We’re looking forward for Insiders to try our updated design:
The new UI design is available for the following languages/keyboards:
Japanese – Microsoft IME
Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin
Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Wubi
Chinese (Traditional) – Microsoft Bopomofo
Chinese (Traditional) – Microsoft ChangJie
Chinese (Traditional) – Microsoft Quick
Korean – Microsoft IME
Hindi – Hindi Phonetic
Bangla – Bangla Phonetic
Marathi – Marathi Phonetic
Telugu – Telugu Phonetic
Tamil – Tamil Phonetic
Kannada – Kannada Phonetic
Malayalam – Malayalam Phonetic
Gujarati – Gujarati Phonetic
Odia – Odia Phonetic
Punjabi – Punjabi Phonetic
This feature is rolling out to a subset of Insiders in the Dev Channel at first, to help us quickly identify issues that may impact performance and reliability. Rest assured they will be gradually rolled out to everyone in the Dev Channel. If you have any feedback for these changes as they roll out to you, please file them in the Feedback Hub under Input and Language > Text Input.
Note that while news and interests is coming to more markets, it"s still not available for all Insiders. So even if you"re in the U.S. or one of the first markets it was available in, you still might not get it.
As always, this build is available via Windows Update. If you"re not on the Dev channel yet, you can enroll via the Windows Insider Program tab in Settings.
