Microsoft は、共有ウィンドウ機能のタスクバーに、どのウィンドウが共有されているかを示す新しい視覚的表示を追加しました。これは、複数のアプリケーションを実行したり、複数のモニターに注意を分散させたりする場合に重要です。Microsoft Teams 通話でウィンドウを共有することを選択すると、共有ウィンドウが色付きの境界線で囲まれるようになりました。
Microsoft によると、コンテンツの更新を操作しないと、タスクバーは再び天気を表示するようになるとのことです。
邪魔しないで集中する
Windows 11 では、「邪魔しない」機能により、通知バナーを簡単に消音できます。[通知] 設定で、自動的にサイレント モードをオンにするルールを設定できます。たとえば、勤務時間外に自動的にオンになるように、おやすみモードを設定できます。さらに、優先通知を設定して、おやすみモードが有効になっているときに、通話、リマインダー、および特定のアプリがブレークスルーするかどうかを制御できます。
Microsoft はまた、ウィンドウをタッチとマウスの両方のスナップ レイアウトにスナップする新しい方法を追加しています。ウィンドウを画面の上部にドラッグしてスナップ レイアウトを表示し、ウィンドウをゾーンの上にドロップしてスナップし、スナップ アシストを使用して、選択したレイアウトでウィンドウのスナップを終了することで試すことができます。
電話番号をコピーすると、インライン フライアウトは、Microsoft Teams またはコンピューターで利用可能な他のアプリで電話をかけることを提案します。
Coping a date or time will suggest creating a calendar event, and when you choose the app, an event will be created with all the information already filled in.
New Task Manager design
Windows 11 22H2 has a new Task Manager with a design that matches the desktop style. This includes a new hamburger-style navigation bar and a new settings page. A new command bar on each page gives access to everyday actions. Microsoft has even added a dark theme for the new Task Manager.
Task Manager new design
Task Manager also now includes a new Efficiency mode (formerly “Eco mode”) feature that will come in handy when you notice an app consuming high resources and want to limit its consumption, allowing the system to prioritize other apps.
You can apply “Efficiency mode” by clicking on the command bar on the “Processes” page or right-click on the process. You can only use “Efficiency mode” for a single process and not the entire group process. If the option is grey out, it generally means that it’s a core Windows process, and throttling it might affect the system’s performance.
The “Efficiency mode” process will have a new “leaf” icon, and there’s a new “pause” icon for “Suspended” processes to indicate the process is in suspended mode.
In addition, the Task Manager now includes accent color support for the “Processes” tab heatmap. However, in some cases, you will see the default blue accent color to ensure readability.
Task Manager accent color (Source: Microsoft)
Task Manager also introduces at least five new keyboard shortcuts:
Alt + E – ends the selected process.
Alt + N – opens the dialog to run a new task.
Alt + V – turns “Efficiency Mode” on or off.
Ctrl + Tab – Cycles through the tabs in the navigation area.
Ctrl + Shift + Tab – Cycles through the tabs in the navigation area in reverse.
The app has other shortcuts as well. You only need to press the “Alt” key to display the trigger letter displayed on the interface.
New Print Queue and Print Dialog
Windows 11 now has a redesigned version of the Print Queue app that matches the new modern design. The app also has easier to use with visuals that make it easier to view and manage print jobs.
Print Queue new UI (Source: Microsoft)
Also, the Print dialog interface has been updated with the new Windows 11 design language, and it can now discover network printers automatically. If you select a printer that was never available on the computer, Windows 11 will install the device automatically without opening the Settings app.
Print new UI
Touch experience changes
Windows 11 now launches apps maximized by default on table posture for small devices, 11-inch screen diagonal and under.
The new touch keyboard and IMEs designs will now show on the Lock screen and where you enter your account information.
New touch keyboard in the Lock screen (Source: Microsoft)
Also, Windows 11 22H2 updates the media controls that appear on the Lock screen for supported apps using a design similar to the media controls available through the Quick Settings flyout. However, these controls will always use the dark color mode to match the Lock screen environment.
Lock screen media controls (Source: Microsoft)
Windows 11 2022 Update includes new touch gestures to make it easier and quicker to navigate the desktop and apps:
Swipe with your finger from the middle of the Taskbar to invoke the Start menu and swipe back down to dismiss it.
Swipe right to left from Pinned to get to All apps and left to right to get back to Pinned. The same gesture works for Recommended/More.
Swipe with your finger from the bottom right of the Taskbar to invoke Quick Settings and swipe back down to dismiss it.
Microsoft updated the animation when swiping to invoke and dismiss Notification Center from the right edge of your screen so that it’s more responsive and follows your finger.
In full-screen touch-oriented apps and games, you will notice a gripper that appears if you swipe from the edges of the screen.
Lock screen improvements
Windows 11 now comes with an updated accessibility flyout on the login screen to align with the new modern design principles.
Sign in screen accessibility menu update
Settings app improvements
As usual, the next version of Windows 11 will include an updated version of the Settings app with various new features and improvements. For example, the app now improves results when searching for settings, and the icons from the navigation pane have been increased to make them a bit easier to see.
Windows 11 now includes links in Settings to help customers find different programs to give their computers a second life or recycle it.
Storage Sense will now be enabled by default for computers going through OOBE. Your current settings will be persisted on the upgrade. You can configure your Storage Sense settings under System > Storage.
Also, the app now supports managing apps previously only supported from Control Panel. This includes the ability to uninstall apps that have inter-dependencies and repair and modify Win32 apps.
Display page
On the Display page, the pop-up design when the “Identify” experience now has rounded corners to match the modern design of Windows 11.
Identify displays new style
Also, on supported hardware, the display calibration is now directly available under Settings > Display > HDR instead of opening a separate Settings page.
Under the “Multiple displays” settings, you will now find a new “Ease cursor movement between displays” option. The option is meant to make it easier to move the cursor and windows between monitors by letting your cursor jump over areas where it would previously get stuck.
On the “Graphics” page, you will find a new Change default graphics option that opens a new page. The page includes a new “Optimizations for windowed games” feature, which has been designed to improve latency and unlock other exciting gaming features, including Auto HDR and Variable Refresh Rate (VRR). Latency improvements can benefit all gamers, from improving your input lag to creating a competitive edge in your gaming experience.
Optimizations for windowed games
Sound page
On the Sound page, you will now see a warning when microphone access has been restricted in your privacy setting.
Sound page warning
Notifications
On the Notifications page, the “Focus assist” settings become the “Do not disturb” settings, and you can now control the feature with the “Turn on do not disturb automatically” settings. Some of the settings include the ability to set the time when the feature automatically turns on and off and control several other rules.
Do not disturb settings
Also, the “Set priority notifications” settings (“Priority list”) allow you to choose which notifications are permitted while the “Do not disturb” feature is turned on.
Set priority notifications
Focus page
On the Focus page, the settings have been re-organized to integrate with focus sessions and configure the features you want to have enabled or disabled ruing a session, including timer, badges, and flashes from apps in the Taskbar, and do not disturb.
As part of the Focus features, version 22H2 adds 5-minute increments for everything under a half-hour to focus session length options.
Power & battery
On the Power & battery page, the default values for Sleep and Screen off are reduced to save energy and carbon emissions when the computer is idle. Windows 11 will also offer power-saving recommendations to help reduce carbon emissions to those with Sleep and Screen offset to Never.
New power management
Storage Spaces
The Storage Spaces page has a new design to match the Settings design style on Windows 11 and new iconography. However, no new features have been added.
Storage Spaces new UI
Disks & Volumes
The Disks & Volumes page is also getting updated in this release to match the Settings app design style with new visuals, updated iconography, rounded corners, and more.
Disks and Volumes new UI
Multitasking
On the Multitasking page, Windows 11 also made minor changes to the snapping options to help simplify them and make them easier to understand. This means that on version 22H2, you will see five options, three of which are new ones:
Show snap layouts when I grab a window to the top of the screen.
Show my snapped windows when I hover over taskbar apps, in Task View, and when I press Alt+Tab.
When I drag a window, let me snap it without dragging all the way to the screen edge.
Multitasking settings
Finally, the “Alt + Tab” setting is now called “Show Microsoft Edge tabs when snapping or pressing Alt + Tab.”
Bluetooth
As part of the Bluetooth improvements, Windows 11 will now remember if you turn on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi while in airplane mode. Then the next time you use airplane mode, the radios will reflect your preference.
Printers & Scanners
The Printers & Scanners page has been updated to show more details about the printer and scanner.
Printer rich device information
Phone Link
The Phone Link page has a new name to reflect the “Your Phone” app change.
Touch page
The Touch settings page available through the “Bluetooth & Devices” section adds a link to make it so that the press and hold visual is now always displayed regardless of the setting state.
Ethernet and Wi-Fi
On the Ethernet and Wi-Fi page, Windows 11 22H2 adds support for “Discovery of Designated Resolvers” (DDR), allowing the system to discover encrypted DNS configurations from a DNS resolver known only by its IP address.
Windows 11 22H2 DNS DRR setting
VPN page
On the VPN page, you can now see some VPN connection details when clicking the connection in the Settings app.
Airplane mode
The Airplane mode page will now remember whether the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi was disabled while the feature was enabled, so the next time you use Airplane mode, the radios will use the previous settings.
Advanced sharing settings
The Advanced sharing settings page is new in the “Network & internet” section. The page ports several sharing settings previously available in Control Panel, including Network discovery, File and printer sharing, and public folder sharing.
Advanced sharing settings
In addition, some entry points for network and device settings in Control Panel will now open in the Settings app.
Themes
On the Themes page, the contrast theme colors based has been tweaked, and the links are now more distinct on hover when using the desert theme.
Text input
The Text input (formerly “Touch keyboard”) page expands the theme and customizations settings to the touch keyboard, voice typing, emoji panel, and other input methods.
Text input settings
The page has two parts, including “Theme” and “Touch keyboard.” The “Theme” section includes fifteen predefined themes that you can use for the text input methods. The “Custom theme” page allows you to create a custom theme for the experience. You can even use a custom image as the background.
Text input custom theme
The “Touch keyboard” section includes some additional settings to change the keyboard and key sizes.
Touch keyboard settings
Start
The Start page includes a new “Layout” setting to control the pins that appear in the menu.
Start layout settings
The “More pins” only shows a single row of items and allows you to show more pins. The “Default” option shows three rows of recommended items and three rows of pin items, and the “More Recommendations” option offers more recommended items and two rows of pins.
Taskbar
On the Taskbar page, under the Taskbar behaviors settings has new options to disable flashing apps and recent searches history when hovering over the Search button.
Taskbar behaviors settings
Also, the “Taskbar corner icons” settings have been renamed to “System tray icons,” and the “Taskbar corner overflow” settings to “Other system tray icons.”
Fonts page
On the Fonts page, Microsoft made some adjustments to improve the design of the page, including that the drag and drop area for installing fonts is larger now.
Fonts settings
Installed apps page
The Apps & features page in the “Apps” section is now divided into two separate pages, including “Installed apps” and “Advanced apps settings.” The “Installed apps” page now only includes a view of all your installed applications.
In the top-right corner of the page, you will find three options to change the view of the listing. Furthermore, the “sort by” menu has been updated to sort from smallest to largest files, and you can even sort by “Name (Z to A)” and “Name (A to Z).”
Installed apps settings
It’s now possible to launch the apps settings page using the ms-settings:appsfeatures Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
Also, Microsoft has removed the “Programs and Features” page from Control Panel, which means that all the links will now point to and open the Installed apps page.
Advanced app settings page
The Advanced app settings is also a new page in the Settings app that now includes the remaining settings of the “Apps & features,” which are no longer part of the “Installed apps” page.
Advanced app settings
Default apps page
On the Default apps page, when searching, Windows 11 will now show a drop-down of options containing your current query without pressing the Enter key first.
Default apps search
Optional features page
On the Optional features page, it’s now possible to install and uninstall the Windows Management Instrumentation command-line (WMIC).
WMIC optional feature
Accounts section
In the Accounts section, Windows 11 22H2 is removing the “Your Microsoft Account” page, and it’s bringing the Microsoft 365 subscription information to the “Accounts” section. As part of the details, you will find your payment information, billing details alerts, OneDrive storage usage, and the people you share the account with.
Microsoft account (paid) (Source: Microsoft)
In the case that you don’t have a subscription, you will find the information about OneDrive and an option to get subscribed.
Microsoft account info (free) (Source: Microsoft)
The page will even show the information for the standalone versions of the suite of apps, including Office 2019 and Office 2021, or the OneDrive Standalone 100GB subscription information if you don’t have a Microsoft 365 subscription.
Family page
The Family page is new to the Accounts section, and it includes the settings previously available on the “Family & other people” page.
Family settings on Windows 11 2022 Update
For instance, you will have quick access to the Family app only to create and manage family members and enforce parental control.
In the “Your Family” section, you can create new accounts for family members.
Other users page
The Other users (previously “Family & other people”) page now only includes the settings to create local and Microsoft accounts for Windows 11.
Windows 11 22H2 では、Microsoft はタッチ キーボードのテーマ エクスペリエンスを絵文字パネル、音声入力、IME などの他の入力機能に拡張しています。
Windows 11 は、このビルドの時点で、手書き入力でハンガリー語をサポートするようになりました。また、同社は、日本語、韓国語、繁体字中国語の IME のタッチ キーボードのスモール レイアウトに IME オン/オフ キーを追加する作業を行っています。さらに、チームは簡体字中国語の Microsoft Pinyin および Microsoft Wubi IME の小さなレイアウト サポートを追加しています。
Microsoft は、Windows 11 での入力エクスペリエンスの改善にも取り組んでいます。まず、フィードバックに基づいて、涙の絵文字、桜の絵文字、色付きのハートの絵文字など、いくつかの絵文字が更新されました。また、UwUなどのフィードバックに基づいて、 Windows キー + ピリオド (.)の顔文字セクションにいくつかの新しい項目が追加されました。
Windows 11 22H2 には、「溶ける顔」、「豆」、「サンゴ」、「ミラー ボール」、「遊び場のスライド」など、絵文字ピッカーに 37 を超える新しい絵文字が同梱されています。さらに、カスタマイズ可能な絵文字の絵文字パネルのエントリの下隅に小さなアクセント カラーのドットがあります。
音声入力
音声入力機能には、次のようないくつかのコマンドが導入されています。
入力するには–「Enter キーを押してください」と言います。
バックスペースへ –「Pres Backspace」、「Backspace」と発声します。
スペースへ –「スペースを押して」、「スペースを挿入して」と言います。
タブへ -「タブを押して」、「タブ」と言います。
スマート アプリ コントロール (SAC)
Smart App Control (SAC) は、信頼されていないアプリケーションや潜在的に危険なアプリケーションをブロックするために、Windows セキュリティ アプリから利用できる新しいセキュリティ機能です。
Windows 11 エクスペリエンスの操作は非常に簡単です。たとえば、「Open Edge」、「Open Word」などのように言って、アプリを開くことができます。または、アクティブなアプリに切り替えるには、「Switch to」、たとえば「Switch to Edge」。または「ウィンドウを最小化」、「ウィンドウを最大化」、「ウィンドウを閉じる」でウィンドウを管理します。または、「クリック」、たとえば「クリック スタート」、「クリック キャンセル」など、ボタンやリンクなどのアイテムをクリックします。
このバージョンでは、より有用な情報を使用して Web をナビゲートする機能も改善され、ダイアログのナビゲートがより自然になり、Microsoft Edge でナレーターを使用する場合のテキストの編集の信頼性が向上するはずです。
Web をナビゲートするときに、ナレーターに現在のアイテム (現在のページ、現在の時刻など) を読み上げさせることができます。Web で表を並べ替える必要がある場合、ナレーターは、選択した並べ替え順序 (昇順、降順など) をアナウンスします。
Windows 11 では、ツリー ビュー コントロールでアイテムが選択されたときと、リストの一部であるチェックボックスの状態を簡単に知ることができます。Microsoft はリンク ナビゲーションも改善しており、Web ページ上のリンクをタブで移動して Enter キーを押すと、常にリンク先に移動することがわかります。
Web でダイアログ ボックスが表示された場合、ナレーターはダイアログ ボックス内に集中し、その背後にあるコンテンツへの移動を防ぐのに役立ちます。
さらに、ナレーターには、Web 上のテキストを編集するための改善点がいくつかあります。フォーム フィールドのテキストを削除すると、ナレーターは削除された文字を読み上げます。大量のテキストを Control + X で切り取る必要がある場合、ナレーターはテキストが切り取られたことを確認します。
Windows 11 Home エディションと同様に、Windows 11 Pro エディションでもインターネット接続が必要になりました。個人用にデバイスをセットアップする場合は、セットアップに Microsoft アカウントも必要になります。以降の WIP フライトでは、Microsoft アカウントが必要になることが予想されます。