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Microsoft has resolved a known issue leading to missing system and user certificates after updating managed Windows 10 systems using outdated installation media. The lost Windows 10 certificates issue impacts client and server platforms in managed environments.
After upgrading to the Windows 10 October 2020 update, a bug is not allowing users to perform in-place upgrades using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool. As Windows Latest reported, since the Windows 10 October 2020 Update release, users are no longer able to select the choice to keep their data, which effectively breaks in-place upgrades.
More recently, the software giant has added a new modern disk management tool to the Settings, and the feature is already live for Insiders. The modern solution is called "Manage Disks and Volumes" and Microsoft calls it a modern take on Windows 10's current disk management tool.
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.