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Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10 customers with devices running the latest Insider build can launch and interact with multiple Android apps directly on their computers' desktops. Support for streaming and using Android apps on Windows 10 from supported Samsung devices was announced by Microsoft in August.
Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix new hardware vulnerabilities discovered in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds bugs in their CPUs, they release microcode updates that allow operating systems to patch the behavior of the CPU to fix, or at least mitigate, the bug.
It's November 10 and Patch Tuesday, and the first batch of security updates or 'B' updates are now available for all supported versions of Windows 10 including version 20H2. If you want to grab these updates, check for updates in the Settings and the update will begin installing. Below is the list of all new updates for Windows 10.
For Windows 10 PCs, the data security process to follow before donating a computing device involves a couple of steps. Before donating any Windows 10 computer, you want to reinstall a clean copy of Windows 10 using the "Remove everything" option.
Microsoft will soon start force upgrading Windows 10 1903 to Windows 10 1909 to keep them protected from security threats after this Windows version reaches its end of service next month. "All editions of Windows 10, version 1903 and Windows 10 Server, version 1903 will reach end of service on December 8, 2020," Microsoft explains on the Windows 10 Message Center.
Microsoft will soon start force upgrading Windows 10 1903 to Windows 10 1909 to keep them protected from security threats after this Windows version reaches its end of service next month. "All editions of Windows 10, version 1903 and Windows 10 Server, version 1903 will reach end of service on December 8, 2020," Microsoft explains on the Windows 10 Message Center.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. In it, he noted [PDF] that in three years, the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10, while the optimal number had increased by the same factor, from 10 to 100.
Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. "Many mature and hard targets have been pwned on this year's contest," the event organizers said.
Windows Search is one of the flagship features of Windows 10 and it allows you to search for your local files and web. While Windows Search works great, the overall user interface of the search page has largely remained unchanged and it's also missing dark theme in the production builds.
A new script makes it easy to create an ISO for any version of Windows 10, including Windows 10 version 1507 through 20H2. For those not familiar with ISO images, they are a sector-by-sector copy of a DVD. This ISO file can then be written, or burned, to a DVD to create a replica of the original media, mounted as a drive letter in Windows, or extracted by a program like 7-Zip to access the contained files. If you want to perform a clean install of Windows 10 or run into a problem, it is always helpful to download an ISO that can be used to create Windows 10 media.