Windows 10 Cumulative Update and More News

Microsoft released cumulative update KB4512941 with non-security improvements and fixes for Windows 10 Version 1903 today.  A long list of non-security quality improvements is included in the update.  Highlights were listed as follows:

• Updates an issue that prevents certain games from leveraging Spatial Audio capabilities. 
• Updates an issue that fails to provide a cursor when you select a text input box using touch. 
• Updates an issue that may cause the name of an unsupported application to appear as default text, such as “ms-resource:AppName/Text” in the Start menu after upgrading the operating system. 
• Updates an issue with downloading copyrighted digital media (music, TV shows, movies, and so on) from certain websites using Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer.
• Improves the user experience and app compatibility so that more Win32 apps will work with Windows Mixed Reality. 

To download and install the update, go to Settings -> Update and Security ->  Windows Update and select Check for updates.

 ePub Support

 Included in the KB Article was the following announcement:

"ePub support ending in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge will end support for e-books that use the .epub file extension over the next several months. For more information, see Download an ePub app to keep reading e-books."

Adobe Flash Player

A separate announcement was made by Colleen Williams, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Edge in Update on removing Flash from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer:

"In 2017, we published a roadmap to remove Adobe Flash from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer by 2020. Since that post, we announced our intent to build Microsoft Edge on the Chromium open source project. In this post, we will provide an update on what to expect for the Flash retirement in Microsoft browsers.

Here's what you can expect for each Microsoft browser:

In the next version of Microsoft Edge (built on Chromium), we will continue to retire Flash in the same timeframe as other Chromium based browsers. You can learn more of that timeline in this blog post. Flash will initially be disabled, and the user will need to re-enable Flash on a site-by-site basis; Flash will be completely removed from the browser towards the end of 2020. Group policies are available for enterprise admins and IT pros to change the Flash behavior prior to that date.

For both the in-market version of Microsoft Edge (built on EdgeHTML) and Internet Explorer 11, the current experience will continue as-is through 2019. We plan to fully remove Flash by December 2020."

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