What to know

  • Build 26220.7271 adds a new Xbox full screen gaming experience for Windows 11 users.
  • A new point-in-time restore feature enables rolling back PCs to previous working states for faster recovery.
  • Fluid dictation voice typing improves speech-to-text accuracy using on-device AI.
  • Uninstalling apps directly from the Microsoft Store library is now supported.

The latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build introduces an Xbox full screen experience designed to enhance gaming on PCs. This feature provides a dedicated full screen mode for Xbox app games, making gameplay more immersive and seamless. It is available in both the Dev and Beta Insider channels.

The build also includes a new point-in-time restore feature that allows rolling back the PC to an exact previous state. It should help resolve issues caused by updates, driver conflicts, or configuration errors by restoring not just the operating system, but also local files and applications from an earlier snapshot.

Voice typing gets a significant upgrade with fluid dictation, which uses local AI models (available on "Copilot+" Windows 11 PCs equipped with AI chips) to automatically correct grammar, punctuation, and filler words as you dictate. This makes voice typing smoother and more accurate, applied in real time without additional manual correction.

The build also lets users uninstall apps directly from the Microsoft Store library, simplifying the process of removing unwanted apps.

A smaller but notable change is that the option to Compress to ZIP file, Copy as Path, Set as Desktop Background, and Rotate Right, and Rotate Left have been moved to a new Manage file flyout - for a cleaner right-click menu layout.

This has proven to be one of the more feature-packed insider builds for Windows 11. It shouldn't be too long before we get to see them on a stable build. But if you want to jump the gun, make sure you're on the latest Dev & Beta channels.