This week saw the May 2020 Update finally reach GA, as well as the release of Minecraft Dungeons, Alpha 3 of Flight Simulator, and so much more. Make sure to catch up via our overview.
This week was pretty much all about the May 2020 Update, or version 2004 of Windows 10, but news regarding Halo 3 Insider tests, Flight Simulator alphas and even some new Edge features was present as well. You can find that, as well as much more, below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of May 23 – May 29.
After several months of testing, Microsoft has finally started to roll out version 2004 of Windows 10 – codenamed 20H1 -, otherwise known as the May 2020 Update.
On Tuesday, the software giant published the release information pages relevant to this update, pointing to an imminent rollout. A day later, version 2004 was listed as arriving that very same day, with the Media Creation Tool being updated to reflect this.
While this feature update did in fact reach GA, there are still some caveats to keep in mind. For one, the presence of a fair few known issues, causing some devices to be blocked from receiving it. Among them are those with Memory Integrity enabled, but it must be said that regardless of the incompatibility reason, a relevant message will be displayed in the Windows Update section of Settings, complete with a link to learn more.
In case you can get version 2004 and are interested in finding out what it brings, you can check out our guide, as well as the list of deprecated features. Furthermore, for folks encountering the ‘Cortana is not available’ error, there’s a solution, as is one for users who would rather uninstall Microsoft’s digital assistant.
Though it may be obvious, version 2004 of Windows Server has reached GA too, bringing in smaller download and on-disk sizes, and overall performance optimizations.
Continuing the theme, build 19635 of the vNext branch reached the Fast ring of the Insider Program and ushered in a number of fixes – for things like Settings crashing while changing display resolution -, but still contained a small selection of known issues. Among those, the update process hanging for extended periods of time, or devices booting from eMMC storage experiencing a bugcheck (GSOD) while resuming from hibernate. The potential instability is however expected, given that these are test builds.
Last but not least, we should touch upon the usage share of the varying Windows 10 versions, among which the November 2019 Update or 1909. The aforementioned feature update saw a slight increase in its share this month from 33.4% to 36.4%, with 1903 and 1809 dropping by 1%, and 1803 seeing a lesser decline of 0.
