14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just released new Windows 11 ISO images, but very important to know is that they are exclusive to insiders.
In other words, if you download the Windows 11 build 25140 ISO images, you will only run a preview version of the operating system that’s currently available for the Dev channel in the Windows Insider program.
The new ISO images, however, come in handy to users who want to start from scratch in the Windows Insider program due to a critical bug in the operating system but also to those who want to see what’s new in the latest release in a virtual machine.
Windows 11 build 25140 comes with several notable changes, also in terms of input.
- Fixed an issue where selecting English (New Zealand) in OOBE was unexpectedly leading to the Arabic (101) keyboard getting selected.
- Setting language bar hotkeys for switching input directly to specific non-IME input method should work now.
- Some languages don’t support the speech recognition FOD. When an admin user tried to install one of those languages using the new Install-Language CopyToSettings command, some settings such as new user account locale, Input (Keyboard), and UPLL (User Preferred Language List) were not getting updated. This issue has now been fixed.
- Fixed an issue causing Batang, BatangChe, Gungsuh, and GungsuhChe fonts to not render Korean correctly when using Office online apps when these fonts were not locally present on your PC.
All these improvements are exclusively aimed at the Dev channel, and in case you’re wondering when they are supposed to go live for production devices, there’s no ETA on this front. Microsoft reminds users that all the tests that it’s running in the Windows Insider Dev channel don’t come with a specific release date in mind, and some of the features that go live for testing could end up being ditched entirely.