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May 16, 2021 11:00 EDT with 0 comments In the past seven days, we’ve seen the usual set of Patch Tuesday updates, a number of productivity improvements for Teams, and even a confirmation from The Coalition that it’s working on multiple projects using Unreal Engine 5. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of May 9 - 15. Patch Tuesday Microsoft, right on cue, decided to release its latest set of Windows updates. For some ...

Release notes for todays Windows 10 21H2 Build 21382 Bringing HDR support to color managed apps HDR mode changes the behavior of some creative and artistic apps that use International Color Consortium (ICC) display color profiles, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom Classic, and CorelDraw (amongst others). In the past, these apps were limited to targeting the sRGB color gamut. We have added a new feature that lets these apps get accurate color and access the full gamut of your HDR display....

Microsoft releases Windows 10 Build 21376 with a new font for better scaling Build 21376 comes with an updated UI font, and other cosmetic tweaks. The updated font, Segoe UI Variable, includes an optical axis that lets font outlines scale seamlessly from small to larger display sizes. This also means better legibility at small sizes. Advertisement Microsoft explains: Historically, fonts for printing small text were designed differently than fonts designed for large displ...

Here is the complete changelog of Windows 10 Build 21376 Updated Segoe UI font We are introducing Segoe UI Variable which includes an optical axis so that font outlines can scale seamlessly from small to larger display sizes. Segoe UI Variable is a refreshed take on the classic Segoe, now with improved legibility at small sizes, and much improved outlines at display sizes. Historically, fonts for printing small text were designed differently than fonts designed for large display text. Segoe UI ...

Add yet another Chromium browser to your collection Richard Speed Wed 5 May 2021 // 15:30 UTC Share Copy Microsofts Edge browser has taken another step to stability on Linux with the addition of the operating system to its Beta Channel. Quite why anyone would actually want Microsofts latest attempt at a browser on Linux is open to question. From the perspective of the Windows giant, getting developers to test their code on the platform is the name of the game and the mov...

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21370 is now available. It brings a lot of fixes and a few changes. It does not bring any major features. Insiders in the Dev Channel can now grab Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21370. Its not packing any new major features, but it does include a lot of minor issues across the board and includes a handful of new changes. The Windows Insider Blog kicks off its 21370 build announcement post with an update on Bluetooth improvements, which include the following: U...

Apr 28, 2021 17:47 EDT Microsoft has started preparing the upcoming Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1) for release. In a blog post earlier today, the company said that Build 19043.928, released earlier this month, will be the final build. However, the Windows maker will continue to deliver other fixes and improvements through cumulative updates. The Windows development team has already dropped Build 19043.964 (KB5001391) for Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel & Release Preview C...

Source: Windows Central Windows 10 devices enrolled in the Windows Insider Programs Dev Channel recently picked up Windows 10 build 21364, a new preview that includes a couple of significant changes and several improvements. For example, in this release, Microsoft is shipping a new update version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux that brings support for Linux GUI apps to Windows 10. Task Manager gets a new Eco mode to limit app access to resources to improve performance, and now the tool displ...

Picked by Techconnects Editors Microsoft said Thursday that the company plans to migrate its News and Interests feed to all Windows 10 users, adding a small weather icon to the Windows 10 taskbar that can expand into news and interests. In January, Microsoft unveiled “news and interests” as an addition to Windows 10 Insider Build 21286. That build was part of the Dev Channel, where new code is tested before it’s deployed (or not) in a future build of Windows. In this case, it will be depl...

Microsoft is making it easy to speed up Windows 10 using Eco mode resource throttling In the latest build of Windows 10, Microsoft has introduced various changes and additions, but one of the most useful comes in a somewhat surprising place. It is perhaps not one of the most exciting Windows 10 utilities, but Task Manager is about to get much more useful, particularly for anyone looking to boost the performance of their system. Microsoft has introduced a new "Eco mode" option that makes it poss...