Microsoft yanks internal Windows 11 testing tool soon after release
participant, two of the latest Bug Bash quests included links to StagingTool and instructions to download the app and use it to enable certain features for testing.
So far so good. But then those links to StagingTool were torn down not long after XenoPanther's discovery, they told, and the download was removed from Microsoft's website. There are now copies of the StagingTool executable floating around the internet, as one would expect, though we wouldn't trust them.
For Windows bug hunters and ultra-early adopters, StagingTool may seem familiar. The internal application does much of the same things as third-party apps like, which were developed"for power users" who want to dig into the latest Windows features without waiting for a release – or for Microsoft to sneak out its own tool.
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