Preview of apple music, apple tv, and Apple devices apps are available in the Microsoft Store on Windows 11, Microsoft said when announcing its latest Windows 11 preview.
Apple’s iTunes for macOS was discontinued a few years ago, but not for Windows. Last October, Microsoft announced that iCloud Photos, Apple TV and Apple Music Coming to Windows 11 in 2023. That’s happening now with new previews of apple music, apple tv, and Apple devices application. They are available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 11, but are limited to the United States.
iCloud Photos is available and there is a integration with Windows 11 Photos app makes it easy to download photos directly from your iPhone into the Photos app.
Apple Music and Apple TV serve the same purpose on Windows 11 as macOS.
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Windows users who rely on iTunes for podcasts may want to avoid previews. Apple notes that after installing Apple Music Preview, iTunes will no longer open, and that means “audio books or podcasts on this device will not be accessible until a compatible version of iTunes is released.” . However, users can return to iTunes by uninstalling the preview Apple Music app.
Apple TV on Windows offers Apple TV+, movie rentals, and premium channel subscriptions. Apple notes that not all features may work as expected in the preview.
The Apple Devices app is used to sync content from Windows PCs to iOS devices, and to update, restore, and back up iOS devices.
Apple App Preview for Windows 11 is available in addition to the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview.
Microsoft also only release Windows 11 Insider preview build 25276 for Dev Channel testers with a change that could be frustrating for users. Now, Microsoft is changing its approach to Microsoft 365 and cloud storage, including Outlook.com attachments in the OneDrive storage quota — a change reflected in a new storage bar. in the Settings app shows the size of the total number of Outlook attachments.
Windows 11 users can manage Microsoft 365 subscriptions and cloud storage from Update Settings app.
In November, Microsoft more Go to the Settings app in the form of a storage bar that shows how much cloud storage is being used by each Microsoft 365 product. It also warns that it is changing exactly which Microsoft 365 app and service data. included, and this may affect users’ cloud storage starting February 1, 2023.
Microsoft has now revealed the change is that Outlook attachment data is included in the user’s OneDrive storage, displayed as a separate yellow bar below the OneDrive bar and also reflected in the entire bar. store as the yellow part of the bar.
Users have until February 1st to start worrying about “your cloud storage is full of warnings” if they are affected by the addition of Outlook attachments to the quota.
“You may see a warning regarding your memory usage; however, it should not affect your storage capacity as early as February 1, 2023,” Microsoft reassured those. Windows 11 testing.
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in one supporting documentMicrosoft explains this change doesn’t affect Outlook.com mailbox storage, but when users reach their limit on OneDrive, the ability to send or receive email in Outlook.com will be disrupted — presumably. until the user buys more storage.
“However, this may reduce the amount of cloud storage you have available to use with your OneDrive. If you reach your cloud storage quota, the ability to send and receive email in Outlook. com will be interrupted,” Microsoft said.
“To ensure we provide the best experience, the new quota bar and cloud storage changes will gradually roll out on or after February 1, 2023, across app settings, Windows settings and your Microsoft account. If you don’t see the new storage experience in your Microsoft account or settings, be sure to check back in the next few weeks.”
Another update in this build allows Task Manager users to create live kernel memory dumps, providing a kernel memory snapshot, and saving it to a dump file that can be used for debugging. troubleshooting. The advantage over classic error checking is that it allows Windows to keep running while resolving it.
Microsoft’s Windows Insider team explains: “This reduces downtime when compared to error checking for ‘non-critical’ but high-impact crashes and crashes.”
“Direct kernel rendering is effective for some types of problems where something takes a long time and nothing technically fails,” Microsoft said in a feature document.
Users can get a direct kernel memory dump by going to the Details page in Task Manager, and then right-clicking the System process. Then the context menu should show, “Generate kernel memory dump file directly”. Files are written to location %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\TaskManager\LiveKernelDumps.
The feature will be rolled out to some insiders as Microsoft collects feedback.
