Microsoft has continued its efforts to nudge users toward the Windows Settings app from the venerable Control Panel, with language and time settings making the jump.

The changes have been made in build 27928 for the Windows 11 Insider Preview Canary Channel and were accompanied by Semantic Search (for Copilot+ PCs) and tweaks to the Copilot App for all Windows Insiders.

The settings include the ability to add additional clocks and select a time server. Time formatting settings have moved, and now you can also change the number and currency formats in Settings. You can also enable Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support there.

Microsoft caused a bit of a furor last year by dropping the word "deprecated" into a support document for the Control Panel. It hastily stepped back from the

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