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To install new cumulative updates, Windows 10 feature updates, or out-of-band updates, Windows users rely on the Windows Update feature to properly update their computer. The resolve these issues, the first thing you should do if the Windows 10 updates install fails is to try downloading the update manually from Microsoft Update Catalog.
If your PC games are lagging or running slow, you can free up resources in Windows 10 using a new XBOX Game Bar task manager that overlays on top of running games. This week, Microsoft has started to rollout XBOX Game Bar version 5.420.9252.0 to all Windows 10 users via the Microsoft Store.
Windows 10 comes with both the Control Panel and modern Settings, but the modern Settings app provides an unpolished experience with key features missing. God Mode lets you access all management features in one location and it's still better than the modern Windows 10 Settings.
The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux and can be installed from the Canonical Snap Store. In March 2019, Microsoft open-sourced the Windows 10 Calculator and invited other developers to contribute to its development.
One flaw exists in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. The other is in the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library; the codecs module provides stream and file interfaces for transcoding data in Windows programs. According to Microsoft, one "Important" severity flaw stems from the way that Microsoft Windows Codecs Library handles objects in memory.
Microsoft has released two out-of-band security updates designed to address remote code execution bugs found to affect the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code. Microsoft patched two similar RCE bugs in June, leading to user confusion because of the ways the security updates were being delivered - via the Microsoft Store instead of the normal Windows Update channel.
These 4 packages had collected over 1,000 total downloads over the course of the last few months up until being removed by NPM yesterday. Although the malicious packages were spotted and removed by NPM, I was able to dig into Sonatype's automated malware detection system archives to obtain copies of their source code, as it had existed on NPM downloads.
Over the years, Microsoft has extended DLP to more of Office, covering Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive for Business and Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, as well as third-party applications that incorporate the MIP SDK. Now it's integrated into Windows 10 and the new Edge browser, without needing an additional agent. You use the new Microsoft 365 compliance center to start managing devices - although you can onboard devices using Group Policy, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, MDM or a local script.
Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 87 newly discovered security vulnerabilities as part of its October 2020 Patch Tuesday, including two critical remote code execution flaws in Windows TCP/IP stack and Microsoft Outlook. Another critical RCE vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V exists due to improper validation of input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system.
Microsoft is continuing its push to move all Windows 10 configuration options into their modern Settings feature. This year, Microsoft has been making a push to migrate all of the Windows 10 settings into the Settings app.