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Microsoft has officially confirmed that Windows 10, version 21H1 will be the next Windows 10 update to be released later during the spring of 2021. Windows 10 21H1 will come with no hardware requirement changes when compared to Windows 10 20H2, the previous release, according to a blog post on the company's official Windows Hardware Certification blog.
Microsoft has pulled a problematic Windows servicing stack update after blocking Windows 10 and Windows Server customers from installing the security updates released during this month Patch Tuesday. Servicing stack updates are designed to provide fixes to the Windows servicing stack, the component used by the OS to correctly receive and install updates.
If you are not familiar with Windows Terminal, it is an open-source application developed by Microsoft that allows you to open multiple console tabs in the same Windows. In the current Windows Terminal 1.5 release, you need to modify a settings.
Microsoft is adding new security warnings to the Security and Compliance Center default alert policies to inform IT admins of detected phishing attempts abusing Microsoft Forms in their tenants. It has recently been made available for personal use to anyone with a Microsoft account after previously being available only to business users with Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions.
Microsoft president Brad Smith said the software giant's analysis of the SolarWinds hack suggests the code behind the crack was the work of a thousand or more developers. Speaking on US news magazine program 60 Minutes, Smith labelled the attack "The largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen."
Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 56 flaws, including a critical vulnerability that's known to be actively exploited in the wild. The most critical of the flaws is a Windows Win32k privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers with access to a target system to run malicious code with elevated permissions.
Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome will soon support the Intel CET security feature to prevent a wide range of vulnerabilities. Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology is a hardware security feature initially introduced in 2016 and added to Intel's 11th generation CPUs in 2020.
Microsoft has started replacing the legacy version of the Edge browser with the new Chromium-based Edge in Windows 10 Dev builds. This change is rolling out to all customers installing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21313, offered through the Dev Channel and available after joining the Windows 10 Insider Program.
Microsoft has reminded customers that some editions of Windows 10, version 1909 will reach end of service in May 2021. Other versions also reaching end of support in May. "On May 11, 2021, the Home, Pro, Pro Education, Pro for Workstations editions of Windows 10 version 1909 and all editions of Windows Server, version 1909 will reach end of service," Microsoft says on the Windows 10 Health Dashboard.
Microsoft has released an emergency KB5001028 out-of-band update to fix a bug causing Windows 10 to crash when connecting to WPA3 Wi-Fi networks. According to a new support issue posted to Microsoft's Windows Message Center, the bug was introduced in the recent Windows 10 1909 cumulative updates.