New schedule for the release of Win10 version 2004

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“Win10 May 2020 Update” — better known to us as “Win10 version 2004” — also known as “Win10 20H1” is coming. Yesterday Microsoft released what it pr
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woody wrote:

If you’re running Win10 version 1903 or 1909, you won’t get pushed to 2004 for a long, long time — you’ll only get 2004 if you click “Download and install.” That’s the good news.

Applies to version 1809 too (well, for a long time; rather than a long, long time).

What happened since you were dreading May two days ago?

Not looking forward to May

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I’m still dreading the general release.

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Version 1909, Windows 10 Pro:

And you won’t even get the “Download and install” button for another year, if you have Windows Update> Advanced options > Choose when updates are installed > Features Update set to 365, right?

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WCHS wrote:

right?

Right.

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woody wrote:

I’m still dreading the general release.

general release won’t happen on May 12, woody. only MSDN users may get the version 2004 release on that date.
if we go by the recent comments from Mary Jo Foley in her revised ZDNet article, general public release would happen close to the end of May

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Yep, as mentioned in the post, general release is apparently currently scheduled for May 28.

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Since I’m running Win10 Home, I don’t even get the VM benefit (if you call it that) so I’ll wait until I see a compelling reason to upgrade (like it speeds up my aging machine) or until forced to (hopefully that won’t happen until after August; lol).  

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Woody wrote “Cortana gets snubbed”. If by “snubbed” he meant “ignored” why write it, so I assume he meant something different? Is Cortana being removed?

In a similar vein, I assume that the new Chromium based Edge (Chredge) will be included in place of the legacy Edge (Ledge?)? Is Chredge tangled up with other parts of Windows (like Ledge or IE) or a standalone program like other Chromium based browsers such as Chrome or Vivaldi which can be removed in the normal way?

Note: It has been possible to remove Ledge using the “install wim tweak” tool, but I read somewhere that in W10 1909 this breaks the windows update mechanism. It was possible in early versions of W10 (I don’t know when his ended) to remove Cortana using “install wim tweak”, but MS changed the packaging to prevent this. I assume its removal was disrupting their “maximise the monetisation of users” business strategy?

Just curious.

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Cortana is being repurposed to a productivity assistant for use primarily in Office instead of a general purpose agent like Alexa, Siri, etc. What that really means is up in the air right now. From what I’ve seen so far in the preview builds Cortana is much less present.

Chromium Edge will be the default browser for Windows 10. It is going to be a default application that is installed in new Windows 10 instances. It is serviced separately from the OS similarly to Chrome. About once every 6 weeks a new version should be released. Since it is a separate app you should be able to uninstall it.

That would be one of the hazards of some of the third party tweaking tools. The may remove something that is vital to another party of the OS.

--Joe

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I still use Notepad for a number of different applications and will be interested to see what is improved about it.  I’ll wait for the dust to clear as I have things set for a 75 day deferral of this update.

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[doriel]

Hope they wont change much, because the power of notepad is its siplicity. Mostly, MS improvements mean to make things more complicated.
For me then, Notepad++ is must-have. It can highlight reserved words in source codes, you can change page coding and lot more, that still I havent used. Also I like multiple tabs, that stay open when I relaunch this application. I use it for editing *.CSV for example. I need to see SUM of selected text, which I found in no other application.
Also Windows Code Writer can be useful, check it out. It should be pre-installed on Windows 10 in default (although you can install it from Windows store if required).
Hope this will help.

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joep517 wrote:

About once every 6 weeks a new version should be released.

A new release follows always Google’s Chrome updates. It can be once a week…The latest update was on April 30 following Chrome 81.0.4044.129 update.

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV200002

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Regards the Win 10 2004 release, got it last evening via Insider ‘Slow’,

seems to be ok, all running well so far, still using ‘Classic Shell’ for my menu control..

 

Ray

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Born & Bleepingcomputer are recently reporting that MS “leaked” the Win10 v2004 release schedule:

https://borncity.com/win/2020/05/08/windows-10-version-2004-kommt-zwischen-26-und-28-mai/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-leak-windows-10-2004-being-released-last-week-of-may/

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Yeah, I saw that on Mayank Parmar’s WindowsLatest site, too

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/05/08/microsoft-leaks-release-date-of-windows-10-may-2020-update/

Looks like further confirmation of Mary Jo’s leak.

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