Windows 10: Windows 10’s 20H1 update is a step closer to formal release

The RTM candidate of Windows 10’s Spring 2020 update, codenamed 20H1 and also known as version 2004, is moving from uncertainty to near-reality.

On Tuesday, Microsoft published ISO images of Windows 10 20H1’s long-rumoured RTM (final build) candidate, which will allow users to clean install the OS wait until it’s pushed to consumers.

Traditionally, Microsoft releases ISO files of Windows 10’s release candidate before seeding the update to Release Preview Ring users and the public. Now if you’re a Windows Insider, you can download Windows 10 Build 19041 ISO file and test it in a Virtual Machine or your spare computer.

At the moment, you shouldn’t install 20H1 on your primary PC as it may still have bugs due to the incompatible drivers and software. Although 20H1’s RTM build finalized back in December, the update is still not going to ship until the spring and there’ll be several cumulative updates during the next weeks.

In the past, Microsoft has targeted April and September for new Windows 10 feature updates. If the same release pattern is repeated this time, Windows 10 version 2004 could be shipped to consumers in the third or fourth week of April.

Unlike Windows 10 November 2019 Update, 20H1 is a big release and it comes with multiple new features. Primarily, 20H1 will allow users to recover their PCs when Windows 10 is unable to restore the system with ‘Reset this PC’ feature.

In addition to the new recovery experience, you can expect the most significant changes in Windows Search, Cortana, Task Manager, and there’s also the usual mix of performance improvements and bug fixes.

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• New MM number and S-spec numbers for the converted products;
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Although it is listed that the MRC update enables 'future processors', Intel, in a statement issued to X-bit labs assured that the current B2 stepping of the chipset (found on current socket LGA-1156 motherboards) does not leave out support for any of Intel's new LGA-1156 processors that are slated for release in the very near future. The dual-core "Clarkale" 32 nm processor will be supported by both B2 and B3 steppings of the chipset.

P55 B3 stepping is pin-identical to P55 B2, and hence motherboard vendors will not have to come up with new designs. Sampling of the new stepping began as early as on October 02, 2009, and it is scheduled for shipment to manufacturers by the 7th of December, 2009. P55 is the performance core-logic for the LGA-1156 platform. It supports Core i5 and Core i7 "Lynnfield" processors with discrete graphics.

Source: X-bit labs

 

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20H1 due for Release December 2019?

I've seen several press articles which say that 20H1 is due to be released early - in December 2019. Apparently, the logic (?) behind this is that Microsoft are to align Windows 10 & Azure development cycles and release dates.

Is there any credence to this?