In addition to the normal update cycle, Microsoft releases semi-annual version updates for Windows 10. The company has now received its latest version for publication and general distribution.

Windows 10 October 2020 Update to upgrade to Windows version 20 H2. The company has therefore changed the year-month numbering previously used to simply indicate whether it is a version update for the first or second half of the year.

Windows 10 20 The most significant updates to the H2 are, according to Microsoft, updates to the Edge browser, a new Start menu, Xbox Game Pass for PC, improved notifications, and the ability to change the screen refresh rate added to Settings. Previously, the refresh rate had to be changed from the display properties, which is not directly part of the Settings menu properties.

The launch menu has been redesigned to fit the theme, in addition to which the background color of the bricks has been changed to better suit the theme and to stand out less blatantly from the background color of the menu. However, the appearance of the menu can still be decorated with accent colors, for example, in the Personalization settings in Settings. In the future, notifications will show the icon of the notified application. In addition, 2-in-1 devices will no longer need to be switched to tablet mode themselves, but will do so automatically when the keyboard is removed from the monitor.

Switching between tabs in the Edge browser will be successful in the same way as switching an application, ie with the Alt + Tab key combination. In the future, the Edge tabs will appear in the list of open applications opened by Alt + Tab as their own applications, but this feature is known to be able to be turned off as well. In addition, a new Collections feature has been introduced to the browser, allowing easy content sharing, as well as an integrated price comparison tool. The price comparison tool is most likely tied only to certain markets, and there is no information about its operation in Finland so far. The Xbox Game Pass for PC has been available as a separate download for a long time, but now Microsoft is calculating it for the so-called ready-made application

You can learn more about the features of the Windows 10 October 2020 Update on the Microsoft Blog. The update will be available in stages in a familiar way. It’s you