Latest Experimental (Canary) Build 29585 Moves Windows 11 Printer Driver Support Into Next Phase

Microsoft has wrapped up this week with four new builds for Windows 11 Insiders. Speaking of which, the Experimental (Future Platforms) channel is now getting Build 29585.1000. As a reminder, all the improvements and changes in this release are also rolling out to Insiders in the optional Canary 29500 series channel.

Windows 11 Experimental Build 29585.1000 brings touch keyboard and print driver changes

Talking of improvements, Build 29585.1000 includes several platform-level changes as Microsoft continues moving toward a new active development build. One notable update arrives for print drivers, where the Internet Protocol Print driver (prnms012) is getting new hardware IDs ahead of upcoming changes to printer driver ranking order.

At a time when Microsoft is gradually phasing out support for third-party printer drivers, this appears to be another step toward that broader transition. The company has already shared its long-term deprecation timeline for third-party printer drivers on Windows 11.

Another noticeable change comes to the touch keyboard experience for voice typing. Microsoft is redesigning how voice typing works by removing the old full-screen overlay. Instead, voice typing animations now appear directly on the dictation key itself, making the overall experience feel more streamlined and less distracting while typing.

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That’s not all; Microsoft has also improved the reliability of Japanese IME usage when Administrator Protection is enabled. The update also fixes an underlying issue that reportedly impacted sign-in state persistence for certain apps in recent Canary flights.