Security News > 2021 > February > Microsoft releases the Windows 10 21H1 feature update to Insiders
Today, Microsoft announced that they have started to roll out a preview of the Windows 10 21H1 feature update to Windows Insiders in the Beta channel.
Microsoft also confirmed that the Windows 10 21H1 feature update would be delivered as an enablement package, allow Windows 10 2004 and 20H2 users to install the feature update very quickly.
"For consumer or commercial users coming from versions of Windows 10 earlier than the May 2020 Update, the process of updating to the new release will be the same as it has been and will work in a similar manner to previous Windows 10 feature updates, using the same tools and processes,".
Some of the new features announced in Windows 10 21H1 include Windows Hello multicamera support, Windows Defender Application Guard improvements, and Windows Management Instrumentation Group Policy Service performance improvements.
A preview release of Windows 10 21H1 is available now to Windows Insiders in the Beta channel.
If you are on the Windows Insider 'Release' channel, you can install Windows 10 21H1 by switching to the 'Beta' channel and performing a 'Check for Update' in Windows Update.
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