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• Windows 10 version 20H2 rolling out to the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel

  Posted on September 18th, 2020 at 12:23 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  The new version is coming. Expect Win10 version 20H2 to start appearing on forced-out PCs in a couple of weeks.

  In case you haven’t been keeping up on the version numbers, the most recent versions of Win10 are:

  Win10 version 1903
  Win10 version 1909
  Win10 version 2004
  Win10 version 20H2

  Let’s hear it for consistency in naming/branding, and failing to foretell a completely predictable conflict. I guess the new names are better than “Fall in the Northern Hemisphere Conflicted Creators Update” or whatever it was called.

  I still don’t recommend that you move to Win10 version 2004 — still too many bugs, most of which aren’t acknowledged — but I strongly recommend that you download and hold onto a clean, free copy of Win10 version 2004.

  Windows 10 Releases Win10 20H2

• It’s time to be thinking about saving a copy of Win10 v2004

  Posted on September 11th, 2020 at 10:00 PKCano Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  It’s time to think about socking away a copy of the v2004 ISO for a rainy day. Once version 20H2 is released, the ISO for Win10 v2004 will no longer be available on the Microsoft Download Center.

  Win10 Insider Preview Build 19042.508 (20H2) has been released to the Insiders Beta Channel on September 8, 2020. It has also been released to commercial customers in the Beta Channel and Release Preview Channel for pre-release validation.

  This means it won’t be long before it is released for Consumers in general, perhaps in the next couple of months. Once that happens, the install media available in the the Microsoft Download Center will be Win10 20H2. In the event you want to install v2004 instead in the future, you should download the ISO soon and store it in a safe place.

  Step-by-step instructions in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Windows 10, Windows 10 Releases Win10 20H2, Win10 ISO