This week saw the release of a bunch of Surface devices, Halo 2 Anniversary on PC, the May 2020 Update to MSDN and so much more. Be sure to check out our overview to catch up on all the news.
Patch Tuesday rolled around, we got to see the May 2020 Update being made available via MSDN, as well as finally being able to purchase a bunch of the new Surface devices. You can find that, as well as much more, below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of May 9 – May 15.
You may remember that back in December of last year, Microsoft turned the Fast ring into what essentially amounts to a perpetual testing ring, with builds coming from the rs_prerelease branch. There was a change related to this the past week, but we’ll touch upon that later. First off, let’s take a look at the Patch Tuesday builds.
If you’re running any of the Windows 10 versions besides 1511, you should have gotten or should shortly be getting a patch (depending on settings). Here’s what you need to look out for:
Patch Tuesday of course means some of the other supported operating systems also get patches, such as Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 (the latter only if you are a business paying for ESUs). Here’s what’s in store for folks running either of these:
In other Windows news, the SDK for version 2004 (or the May 2020 Update for Windows 10) is now generally available, as is the feature update itself to MSDN subscribers. In addition, build 19041.264 has been pushed out to both Slow and Release Preview rings, meaning we’re not too far off from general availability. As previously rumored, this very well could be May 26. Given this, Microsoft has also updated the processor requirements for this soon to be released feature update, with only the Ryzen 4000 series of processors from AMD being added.
Rather interestingly, and as alluded to in the opening paragraph of this section, the company also pushed out a new build to the Fast ring, namely 19628.
