Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18282

2018-11-15 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18282 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18282 (19H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. REMINDER: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, builds may contain bugs that might be painful for some. If this makes you uncomfortable, you may want to consider switching to the Slow ring. Slow ring builds will continue to be higher quality. If you are looking for a complete look at what build is in which Insider ring – head on over to Flight Hub. You can also check out the rest of our documentation here including a complete list of new features and updates that have gone out as part of Insider flights for the current development cycle (which currently is 19H1). What’s new in Build 18282 Windows [ more… ]

Microsoft News puts a special focus on poverty in November

2018-11-15 KENNETH 0

Microsoft News puts a special focus on poverty in November Across geographic, social and cultural landscapes, Americans from backgrounds of all kinds don’t have enough money to meet their basic needs. Even when the larger economy is robust and job reports are positive, millions of Americans aren’t a part of that picture. They are white, rural, urban, black, married, single, Native American, Hispanic, gay, straight and gender nonconforming. They are religious and they are not. They are elderly and they are just babies. They are our relatives and neighbors – they are us. This November, Microsoft News is putting a focus on Poverty in America with a 2-week series examining the root causes of poverty, what poverty really means to the many different kinds of people affected, and what we can do to contribute to the most meaningful solutions. We [ more… ]

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November 2018 Security Update Release

2018-11-14 KENNETH 0

November 2018 Security Update Release Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates.   More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Security Update Guide.  Source: November 2018 Security Update Release

Windows 10 Quality approach for a complex ecosystem

2018-11-14 KENNETH 0

Windows 10 Quality approach for a complex ecosystem Today we are re-releasing the October 2018 Update after pausing to investigate a small but serious issue.   This is the first time in Windows 10’s “Windows as a Service” history that we have taken such an action, and as such it has naturally led to questions about the work we do to test and validate Windows quality before we begin rolling it out broadly. While our measurements of quality show improving trends on aggregate for each successive Windows 10 release, if a single customer experiences an issue with any of our updates, we take it seriously. Today, I will share an overview of how we work to continuously improve the quality of Windows and our Windows as a Service approach.  As part of our commitment to being more transparent about our approach [ more… ]