A number of things took place this past week, among which the arrival of official Edgium preview builds, and the unveiling of the May 2019 Update release candidate. Be sure to catch up below.
It’s that time of the week once more, when take a look at what’s happened the previous seven days in the world of Microsoft. Edgium previews were at long last made available to the those interested, the May 2019 Update arrived in the Release Preview ring, and that’s not all. You can find everything mentioned – as well as the usual little bit extra – below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of April 6-12.
We start with what’s perhaps the most relevant bit of information that’s surfaced in the last seven days, and that’s the arrival of the May 2019 Update release candidate in the Release Preview ring. For those keeping score at home, it’s build 18362.30, and save for a couple cumulative updates between now and GA, the main build number will stay the same. The only instance in which that would change, would be the discovery of some nasty bug like the file deletion one in the October 2018 Update.
As we just mentioned the subject of cumulative updates, 18362.50 (KB4495666) was pushed to Insiders. It has no specific changelog, though there is one known issue to be aware of regarding the launch of Windows Defender Application Guard or Windows Sandbox. Folks may encounter error “0x800705b4”, which is fixed by adding «DisableClone»=dword:00000001 and «DisableSnapshot»=dword:00000001 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Containers\CmService\Policy, and rebooting.
This past week, folks stuck in the Fast ring have gotten their first taste of 20H1 with build 18875, which brought IME improvements. At this point in development, the bulk of changes will be seen in the fixes department, with patches for the lock screen freeze upon interacting with the touch keyboard and switching layouts, plus some Settings crash-related fixes, and a resolution for the Photos tile animation which could cause unexpected battery drain due to the animation playing even when Start wasn’t open.
Those who have opted to stay away from all the Insider kerfuffle got a set of updates too, as is the case when Patch Tuesday rolls around. Let’s kick off with what you need to be on the lookout for if you’re running various flavors of Windows 10:
Please keep in mind that after the set of updates above, Home and Pro SKUs of the Fall Creators Update (1709) are no longer supported. Also on the no longer supported list are the Enterprise and Education SKUs for the Anniversary Update (1607).
Naturally, Windows 7 and 8.1 – as well as their server equivalents – have gotten a round of patches too.
