Microsoft is rolling out assist for third-party widget growth and new video calling capabilities for Chat from Microsoft Teams in its newest developer construct of Windows 11. The new options in Preview Build 25217 can be found for people enrolled within the Windows Insider program.

Now, builders can create and take a look at widgets that may be added to the Windows 11 widgets panel. New third-party widgets can solely be examined domestically on the newest Insider Preview construct for now, however can later seem within the Microsoft Store for the transport model of their apps as soon as the construct is formally launched to the general public. Microsoft says that Widgets can solely be created for packaged Win32 apps at the moment, however assist for Progressive Web App (PWA) Widgets is deliberate as a part of Microsoft Edge 108.

The Insider preview additionally features a sneak peek (for a restricted group of Insiders) at a brand new video calling expertise for Chat from Microsoft Teams on Windows 11. When you open Chat from the taskbar, you’ll quickly have the ability to see a preview of your individual video feed, permitting you to repair your look or spot any background points earlier than beginning a name. Microsoft hopes to make this expertise extra broadly obtainable within the coming months, however a ‘small subset of users’ will have already got entry to the characteristic as a part of a sneak preview launch. You can launch Chat out of your Windows 11 taskbar your self to examine in the event you’re one of many fortunate few chosen.

The Insider Preview Build 25217 additionally comprises a couple of different characteristic updates, together with improved cloud recommendations and built-in search recommendations for Simplified Chinese, and a few design adjustments to the Microsoft Store. Now, the shop makes it clearer if a sport is included as a part of Game Pass to spare you from by chance buying a sport you could have free entry to. The Game Pass library can be getting a efficiency enhance and a few extra simplified choices.

It’ll be some time till these updates make it onto the general public Windows 11 construct, however in the event you’re particularly eager to attempt them out then you may join the Windows Insider Program and obtain the newest developer builds as they launch.