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Microsoft Build 2026 featured major announcements including a new Surface dev box with Nvidia Arm chip, Windows improvements like native Linux utilities and Intelligent Terminal, an AI assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1.
Microsoft announced a developer-optimized Windows 11 experience at Build, including Coreutils for Windows (native Linux-like utilities), WSL containers for easy Linux container management, an experimental Intelligent Terminal with AI integration, and Windows Developer Configurations for quick setup.
Microsoft is set to announce new AI models including its first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, along with Windows 11 developer experience improvements and Copilot updates at its Build conference.
Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm-based chip, promising the most powerful Surface ever with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute.
Tiny11 is an unofficial stripped-down version of Windows 11 that can run on older PCs not meeting Windows 11 requirements. It removes bloatware and Microsoft extras, but lacks official support and updates.
Windows 11's latest Insider Preview build restores the ability to dock the taskbar to any screen edge, a feature removed since launch, along with other UI improvements.
Microsoft is testing a movable taskbar and resizable Start menu in the latest Windows 11 Insider build, allowing users to place the taskbar on any side of the screen and adjust the Start menu size and sections.