Another week, another Windows 10 Insider Preview build for those in the Dev Channel to get their hands on. Today's build is 20221, and features a notable change to the taskbar that makes it easy to create a Meet Now session in Skype.
With this build, Meet Now is present inside the system tray, and when clicked, will reveal a flyout menu with quick access to creating a Meet Now session and inviting friends to join. Meet Now is part of Skype, and is essentially Microsoft's consumer-facing answer to Zoom.
As always, this new feature is in A/B testing in the build. This means that only a subset of Insiders who install the build will receive the feature at first. More people will get access to it over time.
Here's the rest of the changelog:
- As some Insiders may have noticed, we're adding a notification to let you know when an app registers to run at startup (Settings > Apps > Startup Apps).
- With most of the launches of the People app coming directly from within the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10, the People app no longer appears as a standalone app in Start. It remains as an inbox app and can be launched to manage your contacts from the button in the Mail and Calendar apps.
- We fixed an issue where the new Manage Disks and Volumes section in Settings wasn't blocking the ability to change the drive letter of the system volume.
- We fixed an issue that could result in Start menu, and Action Center being totally transparent when certain apps were open in the background.
- We fixed an issue that could result in a crash when opening the Power menu in Start while running Magnifier at a high zoom level.
- We fixed an issue that could result in a virtual desktop thumbnail in Task View showing an empty desktop even after moving an app over to that desktop.
- We fixed an issue when typing with an IME into text fields in certain apps that could result in input no longer being accepted.
- We fixed an issue that could result in the Chinese Pinyin IME candidate pane getting stuck on the first letter when typing into certain games.
- We fixed an issue that could result in Windows Update getting stuck at "Downloading – 0%" for a long time.
- We fixed seeing generic errors when using wsl --install in the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- We fixed a bug where the Linux kernel would not be installed when using wsl --install in the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
As always, check out the Windows Blog for the complete changelog, including a list of known issues.
