What’s New IN THE Windows 10 May 2020 Update
the Windows 10 May 2020 Update has started to become available to customers around the world as a free update.
Here’s what’s new in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Faster and easier connections. Windows has made it easier and
faster to pair your Bluetooth devices to your compatible Windows 10 PC. Now you
can take care of everything in notifications (instead of Settings) with fewer
steps.
Go passwordless. Did you know—for improved
security and a simple sign-in experience, you can sign in with your face,
fingerprint or PIN? It’s easier than ever to enable passwordless sign-in for
your Microsoft accounts: just go to Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options
on your Windows 10 PC and select ‘On’ under ‘Require Windows Hello sign-in for
Microsoft accounts’. Note that this is hardware dependent.
More ლ(╹◡╹ლ) (Emoji). More fun is brought by making more kaomoji available directly in
the Windows emoji keyboard. To access you can use the shortcut, Windows key +
Period key to access (⌐■_■).
Name your desktops. Now instead of “Desktop 1” or
“Desktop 2” you can give your Virtual Desktops more descriptive, clever, or
amusing names. Using Virtual Desktop in Windows 10 allows you to expand your
desktop beyond the physical limitations of the space, organize groups of
related tasks, and easily switch between them. Tackling what you want to—when
you want to—just got a whole lot easier. Click Here to learn more on
how to access Virtual Desktop in Windows 10.
See gaming in a whole new light. New DirectX 12 Ultimate features
provide smoother graphics with increased detail—all without sacrificing
framerate*.
Customization and utility at your fingertips. Xbox Game Bar now supports third-party
widgets, helping you customize the overlay experience to fit with the way you
game.
Note: Improvement to some go-to-apps help make that job, assignment, side
hustle, homework, workday, work week and all of it just that much better.
Memory improvements in Microsoft Edge. The browser is the most used
application and where people spend a large portion of their time on
Windows. Segment heap has been the default heap for UWP apps for a while now.
Windows is excited to announce that one of the
first Win32 applications that will take advantage of
segment heap capabilities is Microsoft Edge. The early internal
testing results of devices on the May 2020 Update are showing a memory usage
reduction of up to 27% when browsing with Microsoft Edge. Individual
device performance will vary based upon configuration and usage, but the lower
memory usage could provide a better device experience because more memory would
be available for apps to use. Microsoft will be opening this capability to
more developers very soon with supporting materials. Developers that take
advantage of the expanded availability of segment
heap memory improvements can also optimize their Win32 app
memory utilization on Windows.
Stay on top of your numbers. Keep the calculator close by—now you
can choose to keep the Calculator app on top of everything.
Notepad newness. The beloved 30-year-old text editor
has some small but mighty improvements. There’s now wrap around find/replace,
quick text zooming, and when you see an asterisk in the title bar you’ll know
you have unsaved changes.
Bringing your smartphone and Windows PC closer
together. The
May 2020 Update brings the popular Your Phone app’s Calls feature to ARM
supported PCs from Microsoft and our OEM partners. You will now be able to
place, receive, or text reply to your incoming phone calls directly on your PC
without having your Android phone right next to your PC. That’s not all, with
the Your Phone app, you can stay in your flow by sending or receiving texts,
checking notifications and getting instant access to your Android phone’s
photos and apps via your computer’s large screen and keyboard.
The new Cortana chat-based experience is here. Your personal productivity
assistant now has an updated chat-based user interface where you can type
or speak requests in natural language to save time finding what you need and
stay on track. For the best experience, sign in with your work or school
account and connect with people, check your schedule, add tasks, set reminders
and more**.
Accessibility
improvements in Windows 10 to help empower everyone, everywhere
Narrator news. Narrator sounds have been
revamped and are now more functional and responsive. There’s also a new command
to summarize a webpage, and you’ll also hear some table reading improvements.
Plus, Narrator will automatically start reading webpages and emails (when
they’re opened in Outlook and the Mail app).
Find that cursor faster. Windows Magnifier has a new
ability to keep the text cursor in the center of the screen, making it easier
and smoother to type.
More Eye Control. Drag and drop is now here! We’ve
also made improvements to the pause experience and provided some new
opportunities in Settings. Note that a third-party accessory is required to
access this experience.
Language learnings. The Global Language Experience
team continues to revamp Language Settings, bringing you quick and easy ways to
check your settings at a glance. You’ll also find improved typing experiences
in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
We
believe that Windows is the most powerful, productive and secure platform to
help you do your best work, learn, connect with the ones you love, and have
fun. We are excited to deliver the Windows 10 May 2020 Update to the over a
billion people around the world using Windows today. And we want to extend a
sincere thank you to our customers and the millions of Windows Insiders who
have been on the Windows journey with us and helped provide important feedback
throughout the development process. Windows will continue to get better and
better. Today is just the next step in our journey. More to come.
*
DirectX 12 Ultimate available with supported games and graphics
chips, and requires the latest Windows 10 update.
**Cortana
in Windows 10 productivity capabilities is currently available in English in
the United States and will roll out in the coming months to more regions and
languages with regular app updates through the Microsoft Store. Until then,
international users and non-English speakers can use Cortana to get answers
from Bing and chat with Cortana.
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