Microsoft finally releases the first preview build of Windows 10 version 21H1 (Spring 2021 Update). This comes after the official announcement of introducing the next feature update to Windows 10, version 21H1. As we informed you earlier, it is going to be a minor update and will be available through the enablement package.

The latest Windows 10 Preview Build 19043.844 (KB4601382) is now rolling out to the Beta Channel Windows Insiders via the "seeker" experience and includes the following new features. To grab the build navigate to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click Download and install.

Microsoft, in a blog post on the Tech Community forum, acknowledged the next version of Windows 10. In that post, the company also confirmed that Windows 10 version 21H1 won't have any new updates to the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program, and thus, no major hardware certification changes in that build.

Microsoft, in a note to the hardware partners, stated that Windows 10 version 21H1 will follow the same guidelines as Windows 10 version 20H2. So, all existing PCs, apps, and drivers will be compatible with the next version of Windows 10.

Microsoft releases a new Windows 10 Preview build to the Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21313 from the RS_PRERELEASE is now being offered to all insiders who are in the Dev Channel. But those who are using ARM64 devices, won't get this build due to an app compatibility issue.

With this new build, Microsoft is now expanding the news and interests experience on the taskbar to a broader set of international markets. Microsoft is also replacing the legacy Microsoft Edge with the new Chromium-powered Edge browser. Continue reading to know more about this build.

Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser was considered to be generally available on 15th January 2020, and after that, Microsoft Edge went through a couple of release schedules that added many new features and enhancements to the product. Now, the company has decided to completely wipe out the legacy Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.

Microsoft has published a time schedule to wipe off the legacy Edge and install the latest version of Chromium Edge on Windows 10, starting April 2021. Continue reading to know more about the schedule.

Microsoft is working on a new download manager for the Chromium Edge that will make your downloading experience even simpler by showing a menu in the toolbar when you start downloading files. The new experience will also allow you to manage your downloads directly from the Microsoft Edge toolbar.

The new download experience is now rolling out to the Edge Insiders in the Canary channel and will be available to the stable release channel later this year.

Microsoft released a new version of PowerToys that adds a bunch of fixes and improvements. Microsoft said that the focus of this release was to improve the FancyZones editor, add some new toys into PowerToys Run, some ARM64 work, and stability. The company also said that it internally tested version 0.31.0 but didn't release it due to a bug in the FancyZonez Editor.

Regarding the Video Conference Mute Utility, the wait might be longer than expected. Microsoft plans to roll out a DirectShow based version in February and will merge the utility into the main PowerToys repository sometime in March.

Application Guard is an enterprise security feature that isolates untrusted documents in an exceedingly virtualized sandbox to guard your users against malicious and potentially harmful threats. When users encounter documents from untrusted sources that are not malicious, they will still be productive without fear about putting devices, data, or identities in their organization in danger.

To help protect your users against zero-day exploits and other advanced attacks through Office 365 documents, Microsoft announced the general availability of Application Guard for Office.

Microsoft announced the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21301 from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. The build is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. With the latest Windows 10 build, Microsoft adds some refinements to the touch keyboard design and some other improvements.

If you are a Windows Insider, in the Dev Channel, can grab the build through Windows Update. If you are not on the Insiders Dev channel yet, can sign up via the Windows Insider Program settings tab.

Microsoft announced the release of the new Windows Feature Experience Pack. The latest build (version: 120.2212.2020.0) of Windows Feature Experience Pack is now being rolled out through Windows Update. Windows Insiders who are in the Beta Channel can now grab this build.

With the latest Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.2020.0, Microsoft is now improving the reliability of the screen snipping experience. Also, they are removing the capability to copy and paste a screen snip directly into a folder in File Explorer. Continue reading further to know about it.

Microsoft releases a new Windows 10 Preview Build 21296 from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. The build is now rolling out to the Windows Insiders who are in the Dev Channel. Though there are no new features released along with this build, the build contains some minor changes, improvements, and bug fixes.

Along with Windows 10 Build 21296, Microsoft is now revamping the Clipboard history design, and the ability to manage Storage Spaces from the Settings app. Here's everything that you would like to know about this build.

If you are using Windows 10, it requires you to activate the license in order to get the most out of it. If you are a retail user and have a single license Product Key of Windows 10, you can't use the same key on another system unless you deactivate the key on the first device.

In case you didn't yet enter a product key during the installation, or used a generic key that you want to change, or want to upgrade your installation with a new Windows 10 product key, here are simple steps to follow.

When you install any operating system on your PC, it gives a unique name to it. This helps you to identify the system over a network when you have multiple systems connected in the same network. It also helps you to easily manage apps and security updates for individual PCs.

As the auto-generated names are obscure and hard to remember, it is difficult to identify the correct system by name. Here we will show you how to change the name of your Windows 10 system.

Microsoft recently announced a new personalized Taskbar feature for Windows 10, called "News and Interests". The said feature is already available to Windows Insiders, who are on the Dev channel. Now the company announced some new improvements along with the Windows 10 preview build 21292.

To know what's new and improved in the latest Windows 10 Insiders Preview Build 21292 (RS_PRERELEASE branch), continue reading further.

Microsoft announces a brand new feature called "News and Interests" for Windows 10. The feature is now rolling out with Windows 10 Preview Build 21286. If you are a Windows Insider, and in the Dev Channel, you can upgrade your system to this build to have an early preview of the updated Taskbar.

As the feature is part of the Windows Shell Experience, you will have to restart the system after the update for the changes to take effect. To know more about the feature, continue reading next.

A new update of Microsoft Edge is now rolling out to the stable release channel. The latest Microsoft Edge now comes with the History and Open Tabs sync feature. In October 2020, this feature was first previewed to the Edge Insiders in the Canary build channel.

If you are a Microsoft Edge user, you can now easily access your open tabs and browsing history across all your devices. You won't require to manually share the links to access between devices.

Microsoft Teams is now one of the most popular platforms heavily used in several organizations. It offers employees to communicate with colleagues, transfer files, and stay connected within the teams. Though it is mainly focused to use within the organization, you can also communicate with people outside your organization.

In this post, we will learn how to enable your team to communicate with people (guests) outside your organization. The guests in Microsoft Teams will be covered by the same compliance and auditing protection.

Microsoft releases PowerToys version 0.29.0. The latest version of PowerToys includes several improvements and bug fixes for Color Picker, FancyZones, and PowerToys Run. Microsoft says that the focus of this release was to add stability, accessibility, localization, and quality improvements.

Due to the holiday season, PowerToys will get features such as FZ editor improvements and three new plug-ins for PowerToys Run in the next release. Continue reading to know what has been improved in PowerToys v0.29.0.

Windows 10 version 21H1 is the next feature update coming on the way and is supposed to release in the first half of 2021. The new official documentation reveals that Windows 10 version 21H1 to receive a new feature that will get support for the TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.3 protocol.

Though the next feature update of Windows 10 won't bring any major features, the inclusion of TLS 1.3 is going to give better and safer transport layer security to the end-user.

From a security point of view, it is always good to keep your computer system updated at regular intervals. But, it is often seen that the latest Windows 10 updates causing mid to critical issues to end-users. The same happened with the latest security release that affected Windows 10 version 2004 and 20H2.

Though the issue was caused to a limited set of users, resulting in a boot issue and an unusual BSOD, Microsoft now rolling out a fix that will resolve this issue caused by the chkdsk command.

Microsoft Teams getting many new features these days and becoming one of the popular business communication platforms. It is also getting deep integration to the Windows 10 operating system. With this effort, Microsoft is now allowing you to change the desktop notification style of Microsoft Teams.

If you are not liking the default purple notification style of Microsoft Teams, here's how you can change it to native Windows 10 style notifications.