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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella speaking at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) conference in Munich, Germany on January 16, 2017. Guests at the 3-day conference discussed trends and developments in digitization.
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Microsoft said Tuesday that it is beginning to release the next version of its Windows 10 operating system for PCs and tablets. The Windows 10 October 2020 Update, also known as version 20H2, fixes security and technical issues and provides a handful of software enhancements.
More than 1 billion devices run Windows 10, making it more popular than Apple’s MacOS and Google’s Chrome OS. Windows contributes about 16% of Microsoft’s revenue, as consumers and businesses buy machines with the operating system installed.
Microsoft introduced Windows 10 in 2015. Since then, the company has released two updates per year. This is the second year that Microsoft has introduced a relatively low-profile update in the fall that seeks to improve Windows performance and quality, rather than a release packed with attention-grabbing new features that people might have to learn how to use. use.
These are some of the changes in version 20H2:
- The new version of the Edge browser is here with the open source Chromium engine, for those who do not have it yet. Compared to the Microsoft-made Edge that debuted with Windows 10 in 2015, Chromium-based Edge supports more websites and browser extensions. Microsoft had made the first versions of Chromium-based Edge available for people to download in 2019, but the company hadn’t pre-packaged it with a Windows update until now. (Chromium is the same core technology that powers Google’s popular Chrome browser, but released under an open source license for third parties to modify and redistribute.)
- If you choose to use Edge, the Alt + Tab keyboard shortcut will allow you to switch between different browser tabs, as well as any open programs. Users can adjust or disable that new behavior by going to Settings> System> Multitasking.
- If you pin a website, for example CNBC.com, to your taskbar in Edge, now when you hover over the app icon for that website on the taskbar, Windows will show you all open tabs browser from that website in multiple browser windows. . It is similar to the way you can see all open windows for a given program, such as Excel, by hovering over its icon on the taskbar.
- If you have a two-in-one PC, like the Surface Pro, and you remove the keyboard, Windows will no longer display a dialog box asking if you want to switch to tablet mode; it will just do it automatically.
- The background color of the icons that appear in the Start menu will appear uniform and will match well with the light or dark color of the entire Start menu, depending on whether the machine uses a light or dark theme.
- Microsoft will try to do a better job of selecting the app icons that will appear by default on the taskbar when people create new accounts or log in for the first time. For example, the taskbar can display the Your Phone app instead of the standard Mail app for people who have linked their Android phones to Windows. Microsoft said it won’t change the taskbar app icons for existing accounts.
- It is easier to act on the specifications of a given PC and its version of Windows. Microsoft has added copy buttons to the Settings> System> About page.
You can check if the update is available for your PC by going to Settings> Update & Security> Windows Update and clicking the “check for updates” button.
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