Category: Windows 10

Windows 11 is now available to eligible devices, but Microsoft is not giving up on Windows 10 yet. While it is true that the most exciting new features may be Windows 11-exclusive, the Software giant will continue supporting Windows 10 with bug fixes and noticeable improvements at least until October 2025. One of such improvements is an updated Windows Search, which now has a dark theme.

Microsoft has updated the official documentation for Windows 10 21H1, notifying users about the status change for the most recent version of Windows 10. According to Microsoft, Windows 10 21H1 (May 2021 Update) is now available to everyone (broad deployment).

Alongside Windows 11, in June 2021, Microsoft announced a brand-new Microsoft Store with a refreshed design and new policies. Back in the day, the Software giant promised to release the new Microsoft Store not only on Windows 11 but on Windows 10 as well. A couple of weeks after launching Windows 11 for the general public, Microsoft released the updated Microsoft Store for Windows 10 Insiders. Rudy Huyn, the principal architect at the Microsoft Store, announced the release on his Twitter account.

In addition to regular monthly cumulative updates Microsoft releases every second Tuesday of a month, the company often pushes additional patches (also known as C-updates) with non-security updates. Today is that day. Optional C-updates are now available for all supported Windows 10 versions. Here is what is new.

If you often use the good old classic WMIC tool, here is a bit of bad news. The Redmond software giant deprecated it in Windows 10 version 21H1, and even removed it from Dev versions of Windows 11.  Microsoft points users to PowerShell instead of WMIC.

A couple of months ago, Microsoft released an updated version of the PC Health Check tool that lets you check whether your computer is Windows 11-compatible. The utility compares your hardware with the Windows 11 requirements and checks software configuration (SecureBoot, UEFI, and TPM). If PC Health Check finds issues with your computer, it displays recommendations and tips that might help you fix compatibility conflicts, for example, update BIOS settings.

Microsoft is almost finished development of Windows 10 November 2021 Update (Windows 10, version 21H2). The company is polishing the final bits, and names Build 19044.1288 as the final build for the OS. That build is now available in the Release Preview channel, with the official ISOs released to Insiders.

The official Windows Update Twitter account has published a notification about the impending end of support for Windows 10 2004. The same update is now available in the official Windows Health documentation.

Microsoft today released a couple of updates for Windows 10 to the Release Preview channel. The target operating system versions are 21H1 and 21H2, which share the common code and receive the same patch, KB5006738.