It’s been a big week for flight sim enthusiasts, as the latest entry in Microsoft’s long-running series was finally made available. That’s not all that happened this week, so make sure to catch up.
It’s been a rather big week, especially for Flight Simulator enthusiasts, since Microsoft’s latest entry in the series was officially made available. Furthermore, updates to Windows 10 and Edge popped up too, as did some Office enhancements. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of August 15 – 21. As is often the case, Microsoft can’t quite stop itself from updating Windows 10, so folks running versions 1809,1903, and 1909 have received a bunch of mid-stream updates this week. One of the more important aspects of this wave of updates is the backporting of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) to versions 1903 and 1909, a feature previously exclusive to the May 2020 Update (version 2004). Either way, here’s what you need to look out for if you’re running any of the three versions mentioned previously: There was some activity in the Insider Program too, with Microsoft stating that Windows 10 20H2 is ready for commercial testing, which suggests ISOs may arrive soon. As far as the other Insider channel is concerned, testers got to play with build 20197 of the vNext branch, which brought a very early (and very rough) Disk Management capability to the Settings app. There’s naturally a very long list of fixes to go with the arrival of the build, including fixes for issues with ALT+Tabbing to a browser tab or bugchecks citing a hyperguard violation. Quite a few known issues remain. There is however some good news for those eager to grab the May 2020 Update, as more blocks have been lifted, which should allow many more people to finally install version 2004. In even more good news, Microsoft has just fixed a security flaw first reported in 2018. Folks using Microsoft’s various productivity apps, in other words the Office suite, and Office-adjacent offerings like Teams, have gotten some updates to play with this week, too. First and foremost, the suggested replies feature for Outlook on the web has gotten a suggested attachments option, which does exactly what it says on the tin. These are suggested files that the service pulls from OneDrive, and it chooses what to recommend based on the content of the email. Staying on the web but switching apps, we arrive at Excel, which now has Workbook Link support. This allows users to paste direct links to data from other workbooks, just like the native applications, but without needing to fall back to them.
