Tuesday, October 20th 2020
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 October 2020 Update
Microsoft late Tuesday released the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, the year's second major update to the operating system. This update focuses on improving the user interface, without too many under-the-hood changes. It sees closer integration of the Edge web-browser with Windows, where Alt+Tab lets you cycle not only among open windows but also among web-browser tabs. Edge also introduces Collections, a feature akin to Firefox Pocket, which lets you easily organize and save content you find on the web.
Updates to the Start menu and Taskbar see app icons do away with the square "modern UI" background in the apps list. The Display Settings now include refresh-rate setting. Windows comes with closer integration of 2-in-1 device context switching (between tablet to laptop modes). Commercial users get simpler mobile device management, improved Windows Hello biometric sign-in, and Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG), which uses hardware isolation to protect supported apps such as Edge and Office, by leveraging hardware virtualization. Microsoft started releasing the Windows 10 October 2020 Update (free for existing Windows 10 users), through Windows Update.
A video presentation by Microsoft follows.
Updates to the Start menu and Taskbar see app icons do away with the square "modern UI" background in the apps list. The Display Settings now include refresh-rate setting. Windows comes with closer integration of 2-in-1 device context switching (between tablet to laptop modes). Commercial users get simpler mobile device management, improved Windows Hello biometric sign-in, and Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG), which uses hardware isolation to protect supported apps such as Edge and Office, by leveraging hardware virtualization. Microsoft started releasing the Windows 10 October 2020 Update (free for existing Windows 10 users), through Windows Update.
40 Comments on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 October 2020 Update
I don't use Edge all that often, but like it when I do. I primarily stick to Chrome and Vivaldi anymore. Don't really have the issue of Edge opening up all that often. At least its not still IE 9/10/11 opening up (in my case.).
Some of our machines run W10 Enterprise and I GP all that stuff away but there are enough running regular W10 Pro that it'll result in 50-100 pointless support calls to the department as the confusing junk apps confuse users who either don't know better or annoys users that simply don't want clutter they didn't ask for getting in the way...
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Bad, but still a lot better than I expected.
I'll find out tomorrow at work how bad things are on a "stock" (non-sycnex/scripted) version of Windows 10 in terms of stolen associations and reinstalled junk, bloat, and adverts. It looks like there are two main marketing pushes this launch:
- A renewed push for Edge, trying to steal that browser telemetry to sell and clogging up ALT+TAB for any saps who jumped on that landmine. Perhaps there's a feature to turn that off because I don't know about you but the average number of tabs I have open is in the dozens. That crap is absolutely NOT what ALT-TAB is for because every browser already has CTRL+TAB for this feature.
- XBOX Game Pass. Fine, I guess, if you're a subscriber, but the Venn-diagram of gaming PC owner and XBOX owner is pretty small. If you have one you don't need the other. I can't complain too hard though, XBGP actually seems to be a half-decent platform for gaming if you like the subscription model.
As far as feature updates go, this one is pretty light on features and It's pretty light on anything at all, in fact.It's really quite sad that I consider this a good thing - a good thing because feature updates are more commonly a burden of broken slowdowns and added junk that nobody asked for and nobody wants. Today, at least, no serious damage seems to have been done to the world's most popular OS so I guess this is considered 'a win' if it's not a stalemate :\
Either way, cable is not your issue source.
For a laugh, I tried with a DP 1.4 cable, no luck.
So yeah, Asus is talking crap.
One would think a workaround would be mapping network drives? Nope, because a restart eliminates the connection but leaves the icon corpses on your file explorer map. So, until I know they fixed this with 2020, I’m back on 1909 with a 300 day wait policy in place under Group Policy Editor.
Decided to go revert from safe mode, and by mistake forgot to reset. Windows loaded normally (on the forth reboot:confused:). I suspect a running service was the issue. I'll check logs later today