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Your guide to a better future. Tech Computing. Sean Hollister. April 11, p. Try Windows Update Obvious, yes? It looks like this: Enlarge Image. Enlarge Image. Receive expert tips on using phones, computers, smart home gear and more. Remember, though, that Insiders are tech-savvy users who are comfortable running beta software that could be unstable.

Microsoft expects Insiders to try every new build and provide feedback. Finally, because Insiders by definition receive things early, the build you receive may not be the final one that ships April In fact, you could receive a beta that looks ahead to the Redstone 3 update expected in the fall—and has the bugs to prove it. Previously, the company had focused on receiving feedback from early adopters and working on errors read: compatibility issues before the updates were made available to everyone.

It is unclear whether the Redmond software maker will follow the same strategy it did with the Anniversary Update last year, or if it will try to remove all the bugs using its internal teams and a strong Insider community.

However, April’s update won’t be as big as the Windows 10 Redstone 3 that is slated for a release later this year. As shown in several leaks, Microsoft has already started to work on Redstone 3, which will bring significant improvements, including the rumored Neon design overhaul. By Rafia Shaikh. In this case, your Windows 10 machine will show the message “We removed some recently installed updates to recover your device from a startup failure.

After the update has been removed, Microsoft will block the update from being applied again within 30 days. Presumably, the company would have fixed the bug and the update will install seamlessly. After 30 days, Windows will again try to install the updates. Privacy watchdog Fix it Already has called for Microsoft to stop its Windows 10 platform from sharing encryption keys. Although only a problem with the Windows 10 Home Edition, the campaign launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF wants the process of sharing keys with Microsoft to be eradicated, enforcing that the disk encryption key is only shared with users.

Fix it Already said Microsoft is unfairly treating users of Home Edition because both Enterprise and Pro editions of its platform work differently and encryption keys aren’t shared with the company at all. Called ‘Device Encryption’, it only works if you have certain hardware and if you sign into your computer with a Microsoft accountwhich means you have to trust Microsoft with the backup keys.

This is bad encryption design by Microsoft: users should never have to give their encryption keys to a third-party,” explained the EFF. Although giving the key to Microsoft means users are able to recover data, even if the backup is lost, those keys could be exposed if a data breach occurs and this means hackers could potentially steal information stored on user computers.

But other users may have different concerns, and may not be technically savvy enough to remove the backup key and generate a new one. Microsoft has formally announced its Office app for Windows 10, helping Windows 10 users organise and access their documents, apps and files on demand, even if they aren’t paying for the company’s full-fat productivity suite.

It’s an update to the former My Office app and will come preinstalled on Windows 10 machines, allowing users to access the power of Office, even if they don’t have an Office subscription and are using the free version of Office Online. If the user has Microsoft’s productivity applications installed on their device, it will open from the Office app, but if they don’t, they will be taken to the online version of Office, where they are able to read and edit files.

The Office app will also keep track of the most-used documents so they can be accessed faster and from a centralised place. As is the case with rival Google Drive, these are pinned to the opening screen of Office, where you can also view files shared with you by others in a few clicks. In future, Microsoft will introduce extra capabilities for IT administrators, including the ability to brand it with their organisation’s logo and colour scheme, access third-party apps using AAD and integrate Microsoft Search so users can use a single dashboard to find documents and people from across the organisation.

Microsoft has announced it has begun beta testing a major Windows 10 upgrade due in despite the operating system’s next two flagship updates still months from release. Windows Insiders who have opted into the ‘skip ahead’ developer programme will be granted access to a new build, dubbed “20H1”, in order to test features not due for release until next year.

This timetable is especially premature considering the next major upgrade, due in April, is just reaching the “nearly finished and ready” development stage, and the update after that, due in October, won’t begin testing until this point. The decision to begin assessing certain elements of 20H1 at this stage was made, however, because these features require a “longer lead time”, the firm’s head of the Windows Insider Program Dona Sarkar said in a blog post.

Microsoft hasn’t announced any of the new features expected in the Windows 10 update, and has warned developers who have opted in to test this build that they should expect a greater level of instability.

The decision to test 20H1 far earlier than expected also comes in light of Microsoft’s sequentially botched Windows 10 upgrades last year. Both the April and October updates encountered severe difficulties and brought disruption to many Windows users. The April update, for instance, wasn’t fully released until a week after it was initially slated to appear, because developers discovered a critical ‘blocking bug’ that could have caused millions to experience the infamous Blue Screen of Death BSOD.

The issues that blighted the October update were on a far grander scale, however, with a series of critical bugs, including two separate file-deleting glitches, causing massive disruption to its rollout.

The October update didn’t see the light of day, as far as general users were concerned, until mid-November, with Microsoft having initially released it on 3 October only to pull it a few days later.

Windows 10 Mobile, once touted as a competitor to Android and iOS, will no longer receive critical security updates from December this year as Microsoft sounded its final death knell. From 10 December , Microsoft’s mobile operating system OS will no longer receive any security updates or hotfixes for free, with Windows 10 Mobile users recommended to migrate to iPhone or Android devices. Microsoft quietly announced the news in an update to its Windows Mobile FAQs , saying that all support for both its OS, as well as Windows 10 Mobile devices such as the discontinued Windows Lumia, will be withdrawn.

The December end-date applies for both consumer and enterprise customers, Microsoft confirmed, with business users encouraged to contact their account team with the firm for any further questions. Its decision to kill off support for its flagship smartphone OS may not come as a surprise given the last major update, version , was released more than a year ago in October Moreover, Windows 10 Mobile’s market share for December stood at a paltry 0. This, for reference, is against Android’s Windows Phone OS never truly took off in the same manner as Google’s competing platform since its first iteration, Windows Phone 7, was released in October Microsoft has now seemingly killed off its entire venture into the Mobile OS market with end-of-life for Windows 10 Mobile’s latest version set for just under a year from now.

Devices serviced by the previous version , however, will reach end-of-life far sooner, on 11 June Support for device backups, meanwhile, will end on 10 March Windows 10 Mobile has undergone a slow and drawn-out death, with Microsoft gradually decommissioning its mobile platform in small and incremental ways.

For instance, a number of apps pertinent to the workplace such as Teams and Skype for Business were pulled from the Microsoft Store in May last year. The decision to pull support for these apps, which Microsoft explained at the time by suggesting “we are not focused on building new features for the system”, was seen at the time as indicative of Windows 10 Mobile’s inevitable demise.

Microsoft has revealed it will be splitting Cortana and search in the latest build of Windows 10, so voice searches are handled separately from text-based searches in the Windows taskbar.

From that update, anyone wanting to search their computer for a file or folder will be directed to the text-based search tool, while those wanting to use voice-based searches will use a new Cortana voice UI instead. Presumably, these changes have been made following extensive research into how people use Cortana and text-based searches differently.

It will allow Microsoft to focus on improving the accuracy of text-based searches without getting caught up in voice recognition too.

Microsoft testers enrolled in the company’s Windows Insider scheme have already been playing around with the update in their preview build for the last few weeks and apparently the tech giant has had some encouraging feedback on the decision. Microsoft has announced a new security feature that will allow its professional and enterprise users to run suspicious programmes in complete isolation. The new desktop tool, dubbed Windows Sandbox, will create a virtual machine-like desktop environment that can allow users to run any software, regardless of how harmful it is, without risking lasting impact on their device.

A form of sandbox-style ‘private desktop’ tool has been in the works for months, with Windows Insiders previously finding evidence for a VM environment in August, at the time dubbed ‘InPrivate Desktop’.

Windows Sandbox will be packaged into Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise build or newer, by default, and runs in complete isolation to a user’s machine. Running the tool will be like opening a clean install of Windows 10 in a windowed application, with everything done within this isolated environment wiped completely upon shutting the app. Moreover, the tool uses hardware-based virtualisation, relying on Microsoft’s hypervisor, which creates Windows virtual machines, to run Windows Sandbox separately from the host.

Windows Sandbox is currently subject to testing, with users welcome to provide feedback via a specified hub. The ill-fated Windows 10 version seems to have been released with more problems after it was discovered that the latest update breaks Windows Media Player. This latest issue adds to the current woes the upgrade has experienced. In a recently updated Microsoft support document note , the firm said it was “working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.

Not only do bugs affect Windows Media Player in the latest release, it appears that the update means some users are unable to set Win32 program defaults for certain app and file type combinations. Microsoft said as far as this issue is concerned it was “working on a resolution and estimates a solution will be available in late November The current Windows 10 October update is also blocked from installing on some Intel-based PCs due to faulty drivers.

According to this web page, Intel inadvertently released versions This has led to Microsoft blocking version for systems using these display drivers. Microsoft has not disclosed when the update will be available for users of affected systems. In the meantime, users running iCloud for Windows have also reported issues with the latest update. It appears that Apple has identified an incompatibility with iCloud for Windows version 7.

It has also blocked devices with iCloud for Windows version 7. Microsoft has resumed the rollout of its October Update six weeks after it was first made available and subsequently pulled due to a number of serious flaws. Version , released on 3 October, was pulled just a few days later after reports of incompatibility issues with drivers, reduced battery life, and a file-deletion bug.

Subsequent testing by Windows Insiders uncovered a series of further glitches, including a ZIP file-deletion bug. The firm has assured users any document-deletion errors, in which entire folders were wiped in the most extreme cases, were resolved following extensive user-testing by Windows Insiders, and data analysis from “millions of devices”. With this year’s April Update seeing a very quick rollout, Cable added, the company decided to take a more measured approach in releasing its October package to consumer and business users.

Microsoft is advising users to wait for version to be made available to their machines as part of a phased approach, with the option still there to manually download via “Check for Updates”. This is so the company can study device health data and release quick fixes. Microsoft says it can establish whether a user’s device has any driver incompatibility issues prior to downloading the October Update, and automatically block installation until the issue is resolved.

The company has also promised a status dashboard within the next year that will provide more information on any issues that lead to update blocks. The month support lifecycle for the Education and Enterprise iterations of version will begin from 13 November, meanwhile, as will Windows 10 Pro’s month support lifecycle. Microsoft has also released several tools for enterprises including an assessment and deployment kit Windows ADK for large-scale Windows deployment, and a day enterprise evaluation kit for users to test Windows 10 Enterprise in their environments.

Microsoft has released a fix for a bug found in the Windows 10 October Update that led to users to inadvertently overwriting files when moving them from compressed folders.

Redmond yesterday released a cumulative update to the maligned version , currently just available for Windows Insiders, that fixed the compressed files bug, as well as a separate issue that caused roaming profiles to not work correctly. The bug affected the built-in ZIP tool in Windows File Explorer when users moved files from a compressed folder, to another folder containing files with the same name. A dialogue box asking users whether they wish to replace an identical file, skip, or compare information failed to show, and skipped these files by default.

Because files would ‘skip’, cutting-and-pasting them meant users would have inadvertently deleted the files they had wished to move across. Users who copy-and-pasted compressed files could have been given the impression their files were seamlessly copied over, before subsequently deleting the compressed folder. The fix, released with Build Microsoft had initially warned users with version not to cut and paste items from compressed folders. This has been released following a previous update to the current Windows 10 iteration, version , which fixed up to 40 separate bugs including a handful of Bluetooth errors and glitches that enterprise admins had complained update.

Update meanwhile has been ridden with several errors since Microsoft first began rolling it out at the beginning of October, including a high-profile file-deletion error. This led to Microsoft pulling the October Update entirely in order to correct the issues, before undergoing a second roll-out to Windows Insiders. The major update is still only available to Windows Insiders, who continue testing the operating system for any further bugs, and there is no concrete word as to when it will again be made generally available.

The next Windows 10 update will allow users to uninstall most built-in apps that they do not regularly use or want taking up space on their desktop or laptop. Microsoft revealed it will be debuting the feature in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build , which is currently being rolled out to members of the Windows Insiders scheme. As such, the feature is highly likely to be part of the next major update Microsoft will push out to all its Windows 10 users.

With Windows 10, Microsoft has arguably been rather draconian in pushing features to its operating system users who may not have wanted them yet Redmond considers to be core to the Windows 10 experience. But it looks like Microsoft is changing its stance somewhat and will allow apps such as the Calculator, Groove Music, Paint 3D, Sticky Notes, and Mail to be easily removed without opting for some complicated workarounds.

However, some apps look to be firmly cemented in Windows 10, with Cortana, Edge and the Microsoft Store remaining fully locked down in Redmond’s latest operating system. Nevertheless, introducing such an uninstall option gives Windows 10 users more flexibility with what they can do in the operating system.

And following the Insiders’ testing, there is scope for Microsoft to learn from that testing and potentially allow users to eventually uninstall more native apps they do not want in their take on Windows Microsoft is relaunching a tweaked version of its latest Windows 10 update, after fixing issues that caused a previous build to accidentally delete users’ data.

Now, after having “identified and fixed all known issues in the update, and conducted internal validation”, Microsoft is re-releasing the update to the public. As with all updates, it will be rolling out to Windows Insiders first before going into general release, and Cable said that the company will be closely monitoring the feedback and telemetry from Insiders before the update is put into mainstream release. Cable’s blog post also revealed that the file deletion problem that halted that original version of the update was caused when users have Known Folder Redirection enabled, but also have files still remaining in the old, pre-redirection folder location.

Microsoft has also added a new feature to the Windows Insider Feedback Hub, which it expects to aid in detecting and addressing issues like this in future. When submitting feedback, users can now indicate the severity of the issue, hopefully allowing Microsoft to identify problems that are severe in impact, but low in frequency.

Microsoft has officially pulled the latest Windows 10 Update, after reports surfaced that the upgrade process was unexpectedly wiping files and documents from users’ computers. The Windows 10 October Update version has been indefinitely shelved while Microsoft investigates the issue, which reportedly affects Windows 10 Enterprise, IoT and Windows Server products as well as Microsoft’s desktop software.

Dona Sarkar, who leads Microsoft’s Windows Insider program, advised any affected users to get in touch with Microsoft’s support department, stating that “they have the tools to get you back to a good state”. The company’s support page for the issue also advises any impacted users to “minimize [their] use of the affected device”. Sarkar’s Tweet led some to believe that Microsoft has cooked up a special tool to recover users’ data, but this does not appear to be the case.

Affected users who have called the support line have reported that Microsoft’s support agents are relying on established all-purpose data recovery techniques like System Restore points and NTFS File Recovery. Microsoft has not specified what’s causing the issue, and has not indicated when the update will be made available for users to install again but has promised to “provide an update when we resume rolling out the Windows 10 October Update to customers”.

Just two days after the general release of the Windows 10 October update and users are already reporting serious issues with the software. Apparently, those who were quick off the mark to upgrade their machines have been plagued with incompatibility issues between the platform and Intel Display Audio drivers specifically those running the Users were reporting that their machines were freezing during set up and files and apps kept disappearing into the ether.

There didn’t seem to be any consistency with which files and apps were disappearing at the time of writing. Other issues surfacing on social media included reduced battery life too. One person who upgraded said their battery life was dramatically reduced and they were forced to charge their machines much more frequently than before the upgrade.

Microsoft has now prevented those affected by the flaw from downloading the update, although as is always the case with bodged Microsoft upgrades, those that still want to go ahead can override the block and install regardless. Intel suggested customers with the affected Skylake chips upgrade the drivers to version Microsoft is taking a phased approach to rolling out its October Update to Windows 10 devices, but users who can’t wait can manually download the update for themselves from today. Although the company recommends users wait until it is offered to their devices, ‘advanced users’ are welcome to begin downloading the latest update by checking for updates in System Settings, and starting the download themselves.

Devices are then subject to a compatibility check, with Microsoft’s using tools to detect any potential issues, and blocking the installation process until these are resolved.

Cable also recommended customers use Windows Analytics to guide any phased approach IT administrators take to updating Windows 10 across their organisations.

An infamously disruptive download and installation process is also set to benefit from a raft of changes. For instance, Windows 10 can now understand to a much better extent when a device is not in use, and can perform updates during quiet periods in order to reduce the scope for disruption. The device can also wake from ‘sleep’ to perform updates when plugged in overnight and not on battery mode, and silence any audio so as not to wake up users.

Windows 10 users were left complaining over high memory usage and installation problems after Microsoft accidentally released an encrypted version of Windows However, users were quick report problems downloading and installing the OS. Other issues were excessive memory usage and some users reported green screens of death. Clients get the keys along with the bits so unclear what problem is being solved here,” he added.

A tweet from the Windows Insider team said that when they released the build “we unintentionally released it as encrypted”. We have begun re-publishing Build as unencrypted. We continuing to investigate reports of high memory usage and will monitor to see if the re-published build resolves these issues. The new preview version of the operating system changes the look of the sign-in screen as part of Microsoft’s Fluent Design System. It is a bid by the firm to help users focus more on signing in.

Microsoft Apps on Android gets rebranded as Your Phone Companion app in this latest build, if you can download it! Microsoft is changing its support cycle for businesses running Windows 10, after responding to feedback. Currently, two major Window 10 updates are sent out each year and businesses have 18 months before they need to move from one to another more recent update. This is part of Microsoft’s “Windows as a service” push, and it’s designed to ensure Windows 10 gets new features instead of the previous three-year cycle for Windows releases.

However, some businesses have said the updates came to fast and that IT departments needed more time and flexibility to the updates. But we recognize that it takes time to both upgrade devices and operationalize new update processes. The new updates will have cloud-based analytics tools to make modern desktop deployment even easier, a program to ensure app compatibility for upgrades and updates of Windows and Office and servicing and support changes to give you additional deployment flexibility.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and look forward to seeing you and discussing in more detail in the keynotes and sessions at Ignite in a few weeks! Microsoft has revealed its Windows 10 Redstone 5 update will be landing in October and will officially be called the Windows 10 October Update. The company hasn’t revealed which specific date the update will appear on, but said it will arrive to users in a staggered roll-out to make sure those able to handle it better get it first.

This particular update will introduce a range of goodies including a cloud clipboard so you can copy and paste text and other components between devices seamlessly, a revamped file explorer that will surface ‘hidden’ files and improvements to Microsoft Edge.

If you’re a gamer, there are also Xbox Game Bar enhancements and an updated snipping tool for taking screenshots. According to Microsoft, million people around the world are using Windows 10, although this doesn’t seem to take into account any new users because Microsoft’s figures have stayed pretty static for six months.

Now the Redstone 5 update is ready to go, Microsoft engineers can push on with the next update – known as 19H1 – and prep that ready for launch.

Apparently, it’s already being tested, with it due to distribute to testers in March next year, with a release date of April. Microsoft is working on a new security feature for Windows 10 Enterprise that will allow network administrators to run untrusted applications in a secure environment.

The new desktop feature, dubbed ‘InPrivate Desktop’, was revealed in a response to a feedback challenge, known as ‘quests’, through the Windows Insider Feedback Hub , seen by Bleeping Computer. Aimed at bolstering Windows 10’s security outlay, the tool will allow IT administrators to execute untrusted apps without risking permanent modifications to their system in a virtual machine-style environment.

Little else is known about InPrivate Desktop, including when the tool will launch. The company has even yet to confirm its existence. IT Pro has approached Microsoft for comment. Microsoft is putting together a desktop-as-a-service DaaS offering that will support Windows 10 devices, that it’s reportedly calling the “Microsoft Managed Desktop”. The service will provide customers with the ability to lease a Windows 10 device, automatically provisioned for them, with the operating system regularly updated, for a single monthly fee, according to Petri.

A key difference between Microsoft’s version of desktop-as-a-service from what many companies already offer under that term is the Windows 10 updating component. Currently, Windows is updated twice a year and can sometimes cause issues with software compatibility and, as a fix, Microsoft is looking to offer the DaaS plan.

According to Peri, Microsoft posted several new positions that suggested Redmond is looking to launch a managed desktop service.

 
 

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Microsoft announced its next major Windows 10 upgrade months agowithout revealing a release date for Windows 10 Источник Update. Now, Microsoft finally confirmed the launch date for Windows 10 Creators Update. Microsoft will start rolling out Windows 10 Creators Update version on April 11th, Microsoft explained in a blog post. Windows 10 Creators Update will roll out to customers around the world as a free download, the company announced, while also revealing that its high-end Windows computers, including the Surface Book and the Surface Studio, will be coming to new markets.

Beyond creativity, it brings new features to Microsoft Edge, additional security capabilities and privacy tools, and so much more. You can read more details about the new features and improvements coming in Windows 10 Creators Update, including the additional security windows 10 creators update release date free privacy features included in the update, at this link.

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The upgrade deleted the cached, or backup, version of Windows 7. For example, the Windows Defender SmartScreen will now show if an employee within the company has clicked on a specific URL while ignoring warning messages in the process. Full instructions can be found on Channel 9. But if you haven’t checked Windows Update in the past couple of weeks, you might want to check again. Files can also be dragged directly to the contact’s picture to share them. Microsoft suggested non-booting errors could be caused by “disk issues, system file corruption, invalid registry keys, or other such causes. The good news for Windows fans is that Creators Update is completely free.

 
 

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