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Version 2004 is on the left, 20H2 on the right. Removing the color background boxes allows icons in the app list to stand out. It's a particularly nice refresh on the scrolling apps list, helping the program icons stand out in much the same way favicons identify tabs in a web browser. Start menu, notification, and taskbar tweaksīeginning with this release, the visual design of the Start menu changes, dropping the solid color behind tiles and replacing it with a partially transparent background. When signing in with a new account, you're prompted to complete setup of the new Edge, with no trace of the old browser visible. This will be the first edition of Windows 10 that automatically includes the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser instead of the legacy version of Edge.

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The fact that this is a "light" update doesn't mean it's completely devoid of new features. Expect that one to take the normal 20-30 minutes (or even longer on older hardware).īecause this is an H2 release, businesses that have deployed Windows 10 Enterprise qualify for a greatly expanded support lifecycle of 30 months instead of the usual 18 months.

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Upgrading from an older version downloads and installs the full feature update.

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On a PC that's already running version 2004, the upgrade takes just a few minutes. Once again, the version numbering follows last year's playbook, incrementing the major build number by 1, from 19041 to 19042. So, instead, the company changed the way it labels new feature updates to use H1 and H2 where the month number used to be. Had Microsoft stuck to the same naming convention, the H2 version number would have been either 2009 or 2010. The previous "version yymm" naming convention resulted in 2020's first release appearing as though it had been released 16 years ago, in 2004. The most obvious change, of course, is the name of the release. The 20H2 update is optional for most Windows 10 users.

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It will be available as an optional update, meaning you'll have to explicitly choose to download and install the 20H2 update unless your device has reached the end of support for your current Windows 10 version.

See also: Next for Windows 10: What to expect from the version 2004 update.

Just as it did with last year's second-half release, Microsoft announced months in advance that the October 2020 Update would "offer a scoped set of features to improve performance and enhance quality." If you're not up on your Microsoft jargon, allow me to translate: There are very few new features in this update. Version 20H2 is following the exact same playbook. That's what happened in 2019, when Microsoft released version 1909 as a small "enablement package" that took only a few minutes to download and install on systems that were already running version 1903. It's also an accurate description of the new release cadence for Windows 10, with each tick representing a major release in the first half of the year and the tock marking the release of a minor update in the second half of the year. That's the sound of Microsoft's update servers, counting down to the public release of Windows 10 version 20H2, aka the October 2020 Update.