Microsoft does not abandon Windows 10, despite the arrival on the market of Windows 11: here are the new features coming with the next update
Windows 11 has finally arrived. On October 5, the adventure of Microsoft’s new operating system has officially started, with the start of the distribution for all users after the announcement in June the availability of the system had been limited to Windows Insider subscribers.
And the latest Windows 10 November 2021 update is also limited to Insiders. Not in an absolute sense, because this operating system will live on for a long time thanks to the support guaranteed by the Redmond company, even though from October 2021 Windows 11 is the new while Windows 10 is the past. Not everyone, for example, is going to upgrade the machine they may be working with or that is otherwise used on a daily basis to the new operating system that may introduce major bugs – or at least this is the fear of many. And then there are also those who are fine with Windows 10 and want to exploit its life cycle to the last – although in this scenario it will be difficult to continuously disable Windows Update.
Windows 10, what’s new in the next update
With the Windows 10 November 2021 update, Microsoft’s operating system will introduce support for the WPA3 H2E standard, which will increase the security of Wi-Fi networks, as well as simplified password-free distribution models for the Windows Hello for Business feature, GPU compute support in Windows Subsystem for Linux and Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) environments, which will come in handy when dealing with tasks that are particularly demanding on PC hardware or other machine learning tasks.
These are the main novelties of Windows 10 November 2021 or 21H2, which is currently being distributed in the Release Preview channel dedicated to Windows Insiders, i.e. developers or “simple” users who like to have preview versions of Windows, even if they should have some bugs or some instability absent on the “final” version, the stable one.
How to get the update now
The update, as mentioned, is available now for Windows Insiders, and will arrive for everyone only later, when Microsoft will be sure to distribute an update free of bugs and adequately stable for everyday use. Should you want to install it anyway, here are the steps.
Click on Start, then on Settings to choose Update and Security and then Windows Insider Program. Click Get Started: you will see the message Loading in progress, so wait. Next you will see the message You will be installing non-final software and services, which may not be fully tested, so read this carefully and only then click Next.
This will show the message Before confirming, which you should also read carefully before clicking Confirm. The last message before the final ok is One more step…, which you should also read carefully before clicking Restart now.
After the restart, one last check before using the system: just go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Insider Program to make sure you are part of the Insider program.