Alongside a paid study showing a ridiculous Windows 11 performance advantage, Microsoft has also published a real example of improvement in 24H2's file system.
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The upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 will bring quite a few improvements and new features for all sorts of users. Developers, for one, will be getting significant file system performance upgrades.
Heads-up, Windows Insiders: rolling back build 26052 will break your Dev Drives and wipe everything on them. Back up all your important data before returning to previous Dev and Canary builds.
Microsoft has published a new blog post highlighting the new features that are coming for developer with the new Windows 11 update. These include the new Dev Drive, improvements to Terminal and more.
Microsoft has released the newest Windows 11 Build 23466 to the Dev channel insiders today. As usual, the new build brings in plenty of changes and improvements, as well as bug fixes.
In the recent past, we learned that Microsoft has been working on ReFS-based Dev drives or developer volumes. The company has finally taken the wraps off it and shared more details at Build 2023.
Microsoft has quietly updated the ReFS file system to version 3.10 in Windows 11 on the latest Canary build 25324. Alongside that, there is also a new ReFS-based Developer Volume option now.
Microsoft is adding even more support for ReFS-based features inside Windows 11. The latest leak in Dev channel suggests that the company is working on new "Dev Drive" VHD developer volumes.
