Paul Thurrott (25:40)
Yeah, I mean the one you can get in the Insider program. So anyone, anyone could do this if you want it. If you want to be like slightly behind and super chaotic, you know, enjoy this, it's hilarious. But then you could also, optionally, and I assume this is still available, but it was available for a couple of weeks, there at least was opt into a different series of builds. And these are even further out than Canary. I don't know if Canary Pro, Canary R2, I don't know what you call this thing. And this one is the. This is the way Canary has been for a while. But you actually have to install the whole build. It's not like a. You don't get a kb. You like download the build and install it like the old days. This one is interesting because this one actually has some new stuff in it and actually it's all related to the Windows console, which is curious. Right. So the Windows console is the engine Behind Command Prompt, CMD, Windows Terminal, PowerShell, etc. And they're actually adding a bunch of new features to it, like regular expression search, the ability to bold fonts, various enhancements to paste inline image support, which they specifically said that Winget will use, so that it will display an app icon for the app when you do a thing like a search. Right. So you will say, Yep, we found PowerToys, here's the PowerToys icon, etc. So the theory there is that this is probably 26H2 and that's the one that's going out to everybody. And I don't know if this is correct or not, but I feel like this might be the first time it's like, oh, look, there's something new, like something different that is not elsewhere in the Insider program. Yeah. So. So that happened. And then Dev and Beta, which are on different series of builds for 25H2. Right. Which is the stable version of Windows 11, have gotten a few small updates. One of them is the return of administrator protection. Right. And so that was the feature they announced and released and then took back late last year. This One's going to be very disruptive. This one is like u. Yeah, exactly. And this ties into that thing where I think they're trying to fix this in Windows as part of the pavan announcement, which is that with UAC you got this prompt that appeared over everything else on the screen. So it was kind of like an overlay, I mean, still there, but I mean, when it first appeared, it was kind of a new thing. Like it wasn't just a dialogue. Like it took over the screen and you had to address it. I sort of, at the time, this is 20 years ago now, but I sort of equated it to like the third middle brake light on a car. It's like another, like just like actually, please see it, you know, deal with it. In administrative protection, they don't use that kind of a prompt. They actually use a Windows hello sequence of authentication. So if you have Facial or finger or whatever you're using, you'll have to deal with that. And that's the one where I said. And then you have to click OK at the end or whatever the button is and is that additional step. And it's going to. It's going to come up a lot. If you enable it, it's going to be really disruptive, you're going to hate it and most people are probably going to turn it off and so we'll see what happens here. But they're reintroducing it and I think one of the promises. He didn't say this explicitly, but I believe one of the promises pavan was making was because he talked generally, we're going to improve the. I think he described it as performance or speed or whatever of Windows Low. I think that's what he's referring to because that's a. It's a big problem. Like if you. I had enabled this, you know, whatever it was six months ago, and I was like, man, this people are not going to like this. Like, it's, it's pretty bad, but they're bringing it back. I also saw, I saw this and I thought to myself, oh my God, they're fixing the problem. I just, I brought this up on Windows Weekly, like three, four weeks ago. You have a touchpad, you do a double finger, you know, to right click and it registers as a single click, like a primary click, however you want to identify that. And that drives me insane. And as these trackpads are getting bigger and bigger and I've used bigger laptops, you have to really move over to the far left for this to work. The way you expect it to work. This is a problem I've had lately a lot. And so I saw that we're going to change the right click zone size. I'm like, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. They're doing it. And like, no, they're actually going to make it easier to right click using a single click. In other words, like, by default, the way the trackpad is set up in Windows is like the 20 or 25% over on the right. If you just single click over there, that's a right click, not a primary click. Right. And they're going to let you make that bigger? It's like, no, I don't want it to be bigger, I want it to go away. And I want. What's that?
