If you need to save your eyes at night, use the Night Light feature. While they look cool, it is harder to read and scan information. Cortana also supports light and dark themes if that is your preference. The biggest visual change is that Cortana now uses black text on a white background by default if you have Windows set to the standard theme. This allows Microsoft to make changes to Cortana more frequently as development of the app isn’t tied to the core OS. Going forwards, Cortana will be updated via the Microsoft Store. Introducing the new Cortana in Windows 10 version 2004Īs part of the plan to reposition Cortana, Microsoft has separated its personal assistant from the OS and will include it as an inbox app in Windows 10 version 2004. Instead of flogging a dead horse, Microsoft decided to reposition Cortana as a workplace personal assistant that connects to Office 365. Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have this market sewn up with thousands of devices including built-in support. As is usually the case with Microsoft’s consumer efforts it was too little, too late. So, you thought that Cortana was dead and buried? In the consumer space Cortana never really took off. Cortana is now a workplace personal assistant In this article, I’m going to look at how Cortana is changing in the next major feature update for Windows 10. From a user perspective, the major changes are to Cortana and virtual desktops. Windows Sandbox also gets some minor improvements. You can find out more about it in What is Windows Subsystem for Linux 2? on Petri.

The Windows 10 November 2019 Update, otherwise known as 19H2, was a minor upgrade and it brought a few tweaks and improvements for both users and IT professionals.ĭevelopers get the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) in Windows 10 version 2004.

Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1), is the first major feature update to Windows 10 in a year.

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