{"id":296058,"date":"2019-02-15T09:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=296058"},"modified":"2019-02-15T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:49:40","slug":"microsoft-begins-testing-big-windows-10-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/296058-microsoft-begins-testing-big-windows-10-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft begins testing big Windows 10 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has begun testing a Windows 10 update, codenamed 20H1, that it only plans to roll out in 2020, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/14\/18225180\/microsoft-windows-10-codename-20h1-update-testing-2020-release-date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft usually releases updates twice a year and an update is already scheduled to take place in April &#8211; making Microsoft&#8217;s work on this 2020 update unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about what features Microsoft is testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some things we are working on in 20H1 require a longer lead time,&#8221; explained Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Insider lead Dona Sarkar.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming April 2019 update, however, is expected to include a new &#8220;light theme,&#8221; the separation of voice assistant Cortana from Windows&#8217; search feature, and an integrated Microsoft Office app.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Windows update, released in October 2018, has been Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/294216-the-latest-windows-10-update-is-the-least-successful-version-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>least successful<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0one to date.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/295890-windows-10-can-now-run-on-a-raspberry-pi.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 can now run on a Raspberry Pi<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has begun testing a Windows 10 update, codenamed 20H1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26970,13225,35787],"class_list":["post-296058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-os","tag-windows-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296092,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296058\/revisions\/296092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}