According to previous leaks, Microsoft is also expected to overhaul the app store as part of Windows 11. Some have speculated that Microsoft could deliver some pieces of Windows 11 via the Feature Experience Pack - a mechanism Microsoft currently uses to deliver OS components and apps that can be updated independently from the base operating system. The icons on the screenshot of this build are transparent and Live Tiles are completely gone. Windows 10X, which Microsoft officials recently acknowledged they had decided to drop, featured a centered taskbar and a fly-out Start menu. It also shows Windows Feature Experience Pack 321.14700.0.3 alongside the 'Windows 11 Pro' dev build.Īlso: Best Windows 10 laptops: Top notebooks compared This is from the 'Cobalt' engineering branch. The leaked build - which I first saw via XDA Developers (which credited BetaWorld on Baidu as the source) shows Build 21996.1 as the build number. In addition, as many of us expected, the new Windows 11 shell looks a lot like Windows 10X builds we've seen previously. There's still a little more than a week left before Microsoft officially unveils 'the new Windows.' A new leaked build, which appears to be legitimate, makes it seem as if the rumored 'Windows 11' branding is likely to stick.
