Windows 11 He continues his particular via crucis when it comes to playing video games. After the latest issues caused by version 23H2, we are now doing it again Previous build 26020, belonging to the Canary channel, made things worse for “some popular games”which “may not work properly in newer Insider Preview builds on the Canary Channel.”

The consolation for Microsoft and Windows users is that this deterioration occurred in a channel that is not, at least officially speaking, aimed at end users of the operating system. However, the fact that Windows 11 has been involved in several incidents with video games meant that this latest event upset many, especially as it may call into question the work that the Redmond giant has done in the field of development.

The idea that Microsoft is having problems with Windows 11 development is far from happening, but it was confirmed when the company itself acknowledged through the announcement of the release of build 26020 that “Since build 26016, multiple games have been affected by various bugs. If you have any problems, please submit your feedback in the Feedback Center.”

As we said before, the Windows 11 builds served through the Canary channel are not aimed at production, but rather at those who want to test the system and report bugs to Microsoft. In other words, Users should not use the Canary build as their primary systembut maybe there are people who jumped into the pool, and we have to take into account the less than brilliant trajectory of Windows 11 around video games, which meant that more than one settled on Windows 10, which shows a clearly better performance in that aspect.

Despite the deterioration of the video game situation, pre-build 26020 also brought some interesting new features, such as a new icon indicating that power saving is active in the system tray and which appears on devices running on low battery life, an improved pooling process in the Process Manager page jobs, the ability to pause and resume jobs in the print queue, and the Windows Sharing window showing only the “Share with” applications that are linked to the account with which the Windows session was started.

Continuing the more positive things from build 26020 and the closure is expanded support for language-level voice access; the ability to use all voice access features on multiple screens, including number overlays and grids that were previously unavailable on any screen other than the main screen; voice shortcuts; in addition to various improvements for the Microsoft Store, including notifications about app installations and the performance of the app itself.