AMD has announced the availability of a new version of their Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Graphics driver, namely the 19.12.3 (19.50.03.05) package, which resolves the crash/hangs experienced when playing Rocket League and includes several other fixes.

Specifically speaking, the current release improves Radeon Chill's experience, fixes the bottom screen corruption observed in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, makes sure Radeon Anti-Lag enables in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive each time, and enhances compatibility between Radeon Image Sharpening and The exorcist Jedi: Fallen Order.

In addition to that, the 19.12.3 build removes several bugs that lead to problems when using Performance Metrics Overlay, Radeon ReLive, Radeon FreeSync, and Radeon Anti-Lag, and fixes a few issues with Radeon RX 5500 XT, RX 5700 XT, and Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.

Moreover, AMD seems to fix an issue regarding newly added game profiles (may neglect to enable), ensures users can select dropdowns in graphics settings for Tessellation Mode, and resolves other small problems as highlighted in the Release Note below.

However, version 19.12.3 might still notice a few problems with some Radeon R9 200, R9 300 and R9 Fury series GPUs, certain Vulkan gaming applications, as well as with games such as Battlefield V and Mortal Kombat 11.

Regarding compatibility, besides a supported GPU, take into account that your configuration must be managing a 64-bit variant of Microsoft's Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems. Also, it comes with an "Auto-Detect and Install" package that downloads the right driver for the hardware.

Therefore, remove any previous version present on your computer, save and run the appropriate package for the computer, watch for all files required to be made available, and follow all instructions shown on the screen for an entire upgrade.

With this in mind, should you consider employing this release, download AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition Graphics Driver 19.12.3 Optional, do the installation and execute a reboot once finished. Also, check back around to stay "updated about a minute ago."

Currently available in preview, Windows Terminal is an app that evolves in a super-fast pace, and each monthly release brings further improvements and polishing that pave the way for a highly-anticipated debut of the stable version.

Looking back at how Windows Terminal improved all year round, the app debuted back in June with version 0.2 within the Microsoft Store, and since them, the software giant added several notable features, including accessibility support, Cascadia Code, dynamic profiles, panes, and full-screen mode.

Going forward, Microsoft says it'll continue to release updates for Windows Terminal on the monthly schedule, however the goal would be to make the app feature-complete in February or March. In other words, the entire feature lineup that's supposed to be part of the stable version of Windows Terminal ought to be finalized in only 2 or 3 months.

Public launch in H1 2020

Microsoft says it wants to bring Windows Terminal towards the market like a stable release within the first half of the year, which means it'll make use of the months between the feature-complete stage and also the public debut from the app for bug fixes along with other tweaks for more polishing.

"The Terminal team will continue developing preview releases on a monthly cadence. We're likely to be feature complete around February/March. After that, we will focus on polish and gratifaction to guarantee the Terminal is able to be considered a v1.0 product. Windows Terminal v1.0 is scheduled to be released within the first half of 2020," Microsoft explains.

You can download Windows Terminal now to give it a try, but bear in mind the app continues to be in preview stage, so some features might not work exactly as anticipated. The app only creates Windows 10, and when you're running one of the supported versions from the OS, you're all set.

Windows 10 has become active on over 825 million devices worldwide, based on internal documentation spotted by Thurrott.com.

While Microsoft hasn't released any official numbers regarding Windows 10's install base recently - and last week's Build 2019 developer conference could have been the perfect time to do so - if those numbers are correct, it implies that Microsoft's latest operating-system is within pretty good shape.

The documentation also sheds light on some impressive numbers from Microsoft's Essential Products (EPIC) group. Based on Thurrot.com, Windows 10's mobile apps - for example Android and iOS versions of Edge, Onenote and Microsoft To-Do happen to be downloaded 32 millions times.

The mobile form of Edge has been doing surprisingly well, with 4.5 million downloads, and Microsoft Launcher, a person interface for Android smartphones with a focus on Microsoft services and products, has 4 million monthly active users.

Office 365 is bigger than Spotify and Amazon Prime combined

In other news, it looks like Microsoft's Office 365 subscription services are also succeeding, with a recent tweet by Tren Griffin, a senior director at Microsoft, disclosing that there are now 214 million Office 365 subscribers - which is a lot more than Amazon Prime (101 million subscribers) and Spotify Premium (107 million) combined.

Someone asked me what's the most interesting part of my work. It is this;"Microsoft's Office has become a cloud-based service boasting a lot more than 214 million subscribers who pay around $99 annually; it has more subscribers than Spotify and Amazon Prime combined."May 5, 2019

With those subscribers paying $99 annually each, that's a hefty wad of money heading into Microsoft's coffers.

If anyone doubted that Microsoft could convince people - and businesses - to pay for a regular membership because of its Office products, then these results prove that it can. Very successfully.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update has experienced an enormous spike in adoption, and has already overtaken the October 2018 Update having a seriously speedy rollout, at least based on some stats.

Fundamental essentials monthly figures from AdDuplex, which show that the May 2019 Update has tripled its degree of adoption in August, and is now on 33% of Windows 10 PCs (the stats are derived via adverts run on apps from the Microsoft Store, having a sample size over 100,000 devices).

You may recall that whenever Microsoft first started deploying the May 2019 Update, it took a really cautious approach, although that was hardly surprising given the disastrous previous (October 2018 Update) upgrade. In the first week of its release (the ultimate week in May), the May 2019 Update only found a home on 1.4% of PCs based on AdDuplex.

That increased to six.3% in June, and 11.4% last month in July, so essentially that's a stable 5% monthly for those initial few months. However, now the floodgates have evidently opened, as the jump to 33% in August represents an almost 22% increase.

And clearly what's promising for Microsoft is the fact that despite this much faster pace of deployment, no serious problems have emerged (even though some minor niggles have popped up with cumulative updates recently).

Neatly divided

Interestingly, the stats for August show that Windows 10 versions are roughly split into three across the users list - with a third on the May 2019 Update, a third on the October 2018 Update, along with a third around the April 2018 Update.

The majority of the users upgrading towards the May 2018 Update come from the April 2018 Update, and are skipping straight within the famously wobbly October 2018 Update.

This is no real surprise as Microsoft had previously stated that it's forcing upgrades on April 2018 Update users, as they are with an old version of Windows 10 that the end-of-service date is coming closer and closer (November 12).

Obviously, we are saying the upgrade has been forced on machines, however, you can still delay it by as much as 35 days (even on Windows 10 Home), but going through these latest figures, it seems most people are now keen to move to the latest version of Microsoft's desktop operating-system.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update recently had a patch issued to repair problems with game audio, and also at time of its release, we noted that everybody wondered what it really might break - and now (sadly) we have our answer: printers, in some instances.

This really is according to user reports on Microsoft's Answers.com site, and also a thread on Google's Chrome Help forum (oddly enough) as spotted by Windows Latest, along with more complaints via Ask Woody.

The issue is the cumulative update KB4517211, which fixed a number of problems including muffled game audio, is seemingly causing major problems mainly for HP printers, but potentially with other brands too.

The Answers.com post notes: "The Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1903 [Windows 10 May 2019 Update] KB4517211 is causing the printer spooler service to stop and also the installed printer is not recognized. It's an HP Officejet Pro 8210 printer.

"When I go into services.msc I can start the spooler and my printer then reappears but because soon as I attempt to print the spooler service stops. If I uninstall update KB4517211, my printer again works."

A number of users then chime in struggling with similar printer-breaking issues, all of them seemingly running HP models.

However, in the Ask Woody thread, GBorn - who blogged about this issue on Born's Tech and Windows World - noted that he'd sought and received feedback from his readers to determine if this is an issue which is specific to HP printers.

However, other medication is reportedly being hit by problems caused by the KB4517211 patch that is interfering with PDF printer drivers and Kyocera network printers. So it would seem that this gremlin isn't only being encountered by HP printer users - but they certainly seem to be the majority of those affected.

The road to reputational ruin?

Once we recently observed, Microsoft is having an entire nightmare here - a potentially very expensive one in terms of its reputation - cheap another fix has seemingly caused yet another bug just pours more fuel around the fire.

There has been a clattering 'domino effect' of bug fixes causing yet more bugs in recent times, with an initial patch to solve some long-standing minor bugs introducing a brand new trouble with Cortana and CPU usage.

Then the treatment for that broke the beginning menu and Taskbar, as well as causing the aforementioned audio issues in certain games - and today the fix for the latter appears to have ushered during these serious printer gremlins.

'Oh dear' doesn't quite pay for it.

Windows 10 Mobile will get its last updates in a few days, so Microsoft has become making the final plans to leave the entire platform behind for good.

Within an announcement this week, Microsoft reveals that Office apps for Windows 10 Mobile will be retired in January 21, which means that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Onenote wouldn't get any security updates, non-security hotfixes, free assisted support, and online technical content updates following this date.

Office apps will work after Windows 10 Mobile reaches the end-of-support in a few days, but Microsoft emphasizes that no security updates would be shipped.

On the other hand, Office apps is going to be completely pulled in January 2021, and the download links will be removed. This means that only devices where they're installed during the time of the retirement date would be able to use Office.

Next thing: moving to Android or iPhone

The organization recommends everyone to switch to Android and iOS where Office apps continue to receiving updates at a regular pace.

"Because of the insufficient security updates, we highly recommend that if you intend to use Office on the phone you transition to the latest Microsoft Office apps with an iOS or Android phone. Not only will you find Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Onenote apps in the iOS and Android app stores, you will also find new innovations such as the Office app which provides a simple, integrated knowledge about Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all-in-one app with all the mobile features you already know and employ," Microsoft says.

Windows 10 Mobile has been around an inactive state for a few years already, so this month's end-of-support date is more of a formality. The majority of users have already migrated to Android and iOS, so few people are apt to be impacted by these retirement dates.

Microsoft has silently started the rollout of the updated New Tab Page (NTP) for the InPrivate mode in its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser.

At this point, the new Edge continues to be in preview stage and can be downloaded by users on Windows and macOS included in the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels.

The redesigned NTP is available in the Canary and Dev builds, though not all users are getting it, as it's included in a controlled feature rollout. This means only a limited set of users has got the feature in order for Microsoft to buy additional time for further fixes and polishing. The rollout advances gradually, so more users should start seeing the updated NTP as reliability is determined.

First of all, what is the reason for InPrivate in Microsoft Edge?

Just like Google Chrome's Incognito mode, Microsoft Edge InPrivate allows you to see the web without leaving traces like browsing history, cookies, site data, passwords, and such things as that. Favorites and downloaded files continue to be saved, but apart from that, you should use the InPrivate mode to see the web securely without storing any information about the session in your device.

This new update for that NTP causes it to be clearer what information is removed automatically while using the browser in the InPrivate mode, with all of details displayed in a way that reminds of the traditional FAQ.

The NTP thus answers questions such as "what does Microsoft Edge collect?" and "How does InPrivate search with Microsoft Bing protect me?" that are presumably among the key details that users have to know when launching the browser within this mode.

Microsoft also insists for implementing InPrivate for searching with Bing, with an InPrivate tag displayed in the actual search engine on the Bing search engines.

"When searching totally submitted using InPrivate search, data you can use to recognize your bank account or device is removed, and no personalized content will appear on Bing. Bing will still provide local results based on your IP location, which can't be traced to your bank account or devices. Links to sign in together with your Microsoft Account won't appear towards the top of the page on Bing while using InPrivate search, and automatic sign in on Bing is going to be disabled," Microsoft explains.

"Nothing you look for using InPrivate search is saved to your Bing search. Such searches won't ever come in or influence your Bing search suggestions."

Furthermore, the company has restyled the brand new InPrivate window icon, albeit this is something which not all users might notice at first glance. This change comes alongside a rather redesigned InPrivate popup displayed when clicking the consumer icon in the toolbar.

As explained by reddit user Leopeva64-2, the InPrivate indicator continues to be updated within the latest Canary version, but it should escape to the Dev channel within the coming updates too.

Bear in mind, however, that the improvements here could further alternation in the coming weeks as Microsoft is yet to produce a reliable build of Microsoft Edge.

The browser happens to be up for testing, and individuals acquainted with Microsoft's plans established that the ultimate build often see daylight as soon as early 2020. The Chromium-based Microsoft Edge should then end up being the new default browser within the Windows 10 20H1 feature update, whose release is projected to begin in April or May. Exactly the same update is expected to become finalized this month, however the stable version of Microsoft Edge would be integrated into the release at another time.

Users seeking to reinstall Windows 10 will quickly be able to do so just by going online, Microsoft has revealed

The most recent Windows 10 Insider Preview Build features a new option when resetting your PC that will tie to a cloud download of Windows.

So far, anyone seeking to reinstall Windows would have required to use an external copy from the software, or decide to utilise a nearby copy, which is often already stored on a PC and therefore at risk of corruption or any other faults.

Reset

The brand new choice is included included in the "Reset this PC" menu within the Recovery section of Windows Settings, and can reinstall the same build, version, and edition of Windows that was placed on the unit. Previously, Reset this PC used local files to build a new Windows installation from exisiting files.

This new cloud download option is open to all Windows 10 devices and it is not the same as the "Recover from the cloud" feature available on some earlier Windows 10 devices. Microsoft says the brand new addition was inspired by users saying they'd would rather use their high-speed internet connection to hurry in the re-install process just by downloading Windows.

The company adds that doing this will remove any apps installed on the unit - which if the "Remove everything" choice is selected, then user data is going to be deleted as well.

Microsoft is going to be hoping that the new release helps encourage even more uptake of the latest versions of Windows 10.

Recent figures in the company reveal that its Windows 10 May 2019 Update rollout has accelerated speedily, using the upgrade now on 33 percent of Windows 10 machines -that figure having tripled since the previous month.

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It's that time again and Microsoft just released a brand new major Windows 10 version. Here are some approaches to direct download Windows 10 v1909 ISO.

Just a few days back, Microsoft released the brand new Windows 10 version 1909. This is a major upgrade. However, unlike another major upgrades which happen twice yearly, v1909 is solely centered on improvements and bug fixes of existing features. Other a few new minor features like Enhanced Search in the start menu and File Explorer, there aren't any additional features within this update. You can imagine this update like a Service Pack for Windows 10, like in the days of XP and 7.

So, without further ado, allow me to show the best way to download Windows 10 v1909 ISO from Microsoft.

There are ways to download the v1909 ISO file. Each method are really quite simple. The first method uses the state tool provided by Microsoft and doesn't support pause and resume while downloading. The 2nd method lets you download the ISO file directly without needing this tool. Follow the method you think is perfect for you.

1. Use the Media Creation Tool

Media Creation Tool may be the official tool that allows you to do an in-place upgrade, create Windows 10 bootable USB media, or download the ISO file. The downside of the tool is it is usually slow to download the ISO and there is no method to pause or resume the download.

1. First, head over to this web site and then click the "Download tool now" button.

2. The above action will download the Media Creation Tool. Once downloaded, double-click around the downloaded EXE file. You'll be prompted towards the accept terms. Click the "Accept" button to continue.

3. Within the next window, select the "Create Installation Media" radio option and click on the "Next" button.

4. The tool is intelligent enough to automatically grab the word what, edition, and architecture from your current installation. If that's not correct or you want to change it, uncheck the "Use the recommended options for this PC" checkbox and customize the options. Click on the "Next" button to continue.

5. Now, select "ISO File" radio option and click on "Next".

6. You'll be prompted to select a destination folder in order to save the downloaded ISO file. Go to where you want to save the file, provide a descriptive name and then click the "Save" button.

7. Once you hit the save button, the tool will begin the downloading process. The ISO file will be anywhere from 3.5 GB to 4 GB. Based on your online connection speed, it can take serious amounts of complete the full download.

After completing the download, there is a Windows 10 v1909 ISO in the location you chose earlier.

2. Direct Download Windows 10 v1909 ISO from Microsoft Website

Other than while using Media Creation Tool, you can also download the ISO directly from the Microsoft website. However, if you try to achieve that, Microsoft will make you download the Media Creation Tool.

So, if you wish to directly download the v1909 ISO, you have to trick the Microsoft website into supplying the ISO file rather than the Media Creation Tool.

That's all. It is that simple to download Windows 10 v1909 ISO.