Category: Windows 10

According to the regular schedule, Microsoft plans to ship monthly cumulative updates for all supported Windows versions on September 14, 2021. As usual, before public rollout, Microsoft releases a preview of updates to come. If you own a Windows 10-based PC with versions 21H1, 20H2, or 2004, you can install monthly preview updates with a hefty list of quality-of-life improvements.

Microsoft has updated the Release Preview channel for Insiders running Windows 10. The patch KB5005101 is now available for both Windows 10, version 21H1, and version 21H2, and comes with a single fix.

Microsoft releases cumulative Windows updates with bug fixes and security patches every second Tuesday of a month. Sometimes, the company pushes additional out-of-band updates to curb troubles that pop along the way. KB5005103 is one of those unscheduled updates for systems with Windows 10 version 1909 (also known as the October 2019 update).

After installing KB5003214 and KB5003690, released on May 25, 2021 and June 21, 2021 respectively, users started facing a bug in Windows 10. When installing updates, Windows 10 shows a PSFX_E_MATCHING_BINARY_MISSING error message. The affected versions of the OS include 2004, 20H2 and 21H1, which share the same code base.

Microsoft today released a new build of Windows 10 version 21H2 to Insiders in the Release Preview channel. These builds are available to users whose devices do not meet minimum hardware requirements of Windows 11, so they receive 21H2 instead. Today's build 19044.1200 is released with patch KB5005101. It adds support for WPA3 H2E for Wi-Fi, and includes a number of fixes and improvements to Windows Hello, WSL, and more.

Microsoft today released monthly cumulative updates for all supported operating systems. As usual, such updates do not bring with them any new features, but are aimed at fixing discovered bugs and vulnerabilities. Updates are already available in Windows Update.

Steam Hardware Survey for July 2021 reveals the latest data about gamers' hardware and software preferences. According to Steam, almost 90% of users (89.66%, to be precise) prefer Windows 10 over any other platform (it is not like they have that much choice). Now-unsupported Windows 7 remains relatively popular with 5.48% of users. Combined with the 32-bit version, Windows 7 occupies 5.59% of the entire userbase and sits tightly in second place.

Microsoft today introduced a new feature for IT Pros, layered Group Policy. This new feature allows configuring which devices can be installed on machines across your organization and which are prohibited.

Here are the latest firmware updates available for a bunch of Surface computers. This time, new patches are available Surface Pro 4, the original Surface Book, and Surface Laptop 3. Here is what is new in those updates.