This week, Microsoft announced that it has begun testing several new features for Windows 11. These include the use of an AI algorithm to filter noise during voice and video calls, support for the USB4 2.0 standard, which will provide data transfer speeds of up to 80%. Gbps and other useful functions. The innovations appeared in Windows 11 version 26040, which was recently made available to members of the early evaluation program in the Canary channel.

Last year, Microsoft added an interesting feature to its Phone Link app. When Windows 11 detects that a smartphone synchronized with the user’s operating system has taken a photo, a corresponding message appears on the screen and by clicking on it you can immediately start editing the photo on the computer. Now the developers have moved this feature from Phone Link to the Scissors app. To use it, as before, you need to synchronize your Android smartphone with Windows 11 and also enable the function in the operating system settings.

Another innovation was the emergence of the Voice Clarity function, which was previously available to owners of Surface Laptop Studio laptops and uses an AI low-level noise filtering algorithm to provide high-quality sound during voice and video calls. Microsoft said the feature is now available in all apps that use the operating system’s built-in microphone audio processing features, such as WhatsApp. Essentially, this is a stealth enhancement to third-party applications running on Windows that will greatly improve their ability to filter out background noise and highlight the user’s voice.

Earlier this month, Microsoft’s plans to implement support for the USB4 2.0 standard in Windows 11 were already reported; This will allow the operating system to take full advantage of ultra-fast USB devices. Support for the USB4 2.0 standard means transfer speeds of up to 80 Gbit/s, twice that of USB4.

The tool for accessing shared files and folders in the mentioned build has received support for more applications, including WhatsApp, Gmail, X, Facebook and others. Also “Explorer” received support for more compression formats. Last year, Microsoft added support for 7ZIP and TAR formats to Windows 11. These now include GZIP, BZIP2 and various TAR variations that differ from each other in terms of compression algorithms.

Even in the new version of Windows 11, developers have moved the Copilot AI assistant shortcut to the right side of the taskbar to make it easier for users to interact with this tool.