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Visual Studio is crashing when docking or dragging windows around after installing recently released. NET Framework cumulative update previews for Windows 10 and Windows Server.
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10, version 2004 has now been added to the broad deployment channel and will be available to everyone via Windows Update. Microsoft officially started rolling out Windows 10 2004 in May 2020, but for many people, it wasn't yet being offered when checking via Windows Update.
Microsoft has addressed a known issue impacting multiple Windows 10 apps and causing them to forget users' passwords after upgrading devices to certain Windows 10, version 2004 builds. The issue was resolved in the KB4598291 release preview cumulative update for all editions of Windows 10 and Windows Server versions 2004 and 20H2. This update also comes with fixes for device deactivation issues and freezing problems while playing games full-screen.
Microsoft has released the KB4598291 release preview cumulative update for all editions of Windows 10 and Windows Server versions 2004 and 20H2, with fixes for device deactivation issues and unresponsiveness while playing games in full-screen. After installing the KB4598291 non-security update you may experience issues with system and user certificates getting lost when updating from Windows 10 1809 or later versions utilizing outdated update media.
Microsoft has released the KB4598291 release preview cumulative update for all editions of Windows 10 and Windows Server versions 2004 and 20H2, with fixes for device deactivation issues and unresponsiveness while playing games in full-screen. After installing the KB4598291 non-security update you may experience issues with system and user certificates getting lost when updating from Windows 10 1809 or later versions utilizing outdated update media.
Apple has pulled iCloud 12 for Windows 10 from the Microsoft Store for what is believed to be issues with their new Chrome iCloud Keychain password synchronization feature. On January 26th, Apple released iCloud 12 with a new 'Passwords' feature, that when enabled, prompts users to install an 'iCloud Passwords' extension to synchronize and automatically fill in passwords saved in the iCloud Keychain.
Like almost all operating systems, Windows 10 is vulnerable to security and privacy issues, and researchers have proved that Microsoft can track a lot of your activities to improve their products and enable personalized ads and promotions. Thankfully, Windows 10 allows us to improve the operating system's security and privacy using the built-in settings app.
Microsoft has released a new set of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix bugs impacting multiple Intel CPU families. Microcode updates are released by Intel after discovering bugs in their CPUs to allow OS vendors to patch the CPU behavior to address or at least partially mitigate the issues.
Developers have released an unofficial fix for a Windows bug that could lead to the corruption of an NTFS volume by merely viewing a specially crafted file. Earlier this month, BleepingComputer reported that a Windows 10 bug was discovered by security researcher Jonas Lykkegaard that allows non-privileged users to mark an NTFS volume as dirty.
Microsoft has shared a workaround for a known issue impacting Windows 10 devices with Conexant ISST audio drivers and causing update errors and issues. Windows 10 computers affected by this known issue come with Conexant ISST Audio or Conexant HDAudio drivers under 'Sound, video and game controllers' in Device Manager.