News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support This week, Insiders finally got their hands on Android apps on Windows, new builds for Windows 11, Windows 10 21H1, and Windows 10 21H2. Details about Halo Infinite’s PC version were revealed too.
We’re at the end of the week, which means that it’s time to look at what happened in the world of Microsoft in the past few days. Windows 10 was primarily Microsoft’s focus in terms of new builds, but as we know, the upcoming version 21H2 build is just enablement package so don’t raise your expectations too much. More interestingly, Windows Subsystem for Android finally landed on preview builds of Windows 11. In the cybersecurity space, we also found out that Microsoft digitally signed a driver that was actually malware that can wreak havoc. Find out more about this in our weekly digest for October 17 – October 22. After giving Windows 11 all the attention for the past few weeks, Microsoft finally decided to give some love to Windows 10 too. The company released builds 19043.1319 and 19044.1319 for Insiders running version 21H1 or 21H2, respectively, in the Release Preview ring. Both builds have identical change logs, which makes sense because 21H2 is just an enablement package for 21H1 after all. Tons of bugs were squashed including those that affected subtitles from displaying on certain streaming sites or video playing apps. Enhancements were also made in the department of memory leaks and ransomware protections. You likely won’t notice any front-end enhancements if you install either of these builds though. If you were thinking that build 19044.1319 will be the launch version of Windows 10 version 21H2 – when it eventually rolls out -, you’d be mistaken. Microsoft finally revealed that build 19044.1288 is a candidate build for that rollout and is now available for those on the Release Preview ring. The company has released ISOs too. The improvements offered in 19044.1319 will be provided in the next Patch Tuesday update. While a firm release date wasn’t disclosed, Microsoft referred to version 21H2 as the « November 2021 Update », but also stated that out of the three noteworthy features promised for the update, a new Windows Hello for Business deployment method dubbed « cloud trust » won’t be ready for primetime. You can find out more about what to expect from Windows 10 November 2021 Update in our guide here. Windows 11 received some love in the form of build 22483 for the Dev channel too. It fixes some bugs related to Search and Settings but introduces some new ones to Search, Taskbar, and Start too. ISOs are available for install as well.
