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Microsoft gave Windows Insiders double-handed treatment last night and threw a bone at the dedicated crowd of Windows Mixed Reality users.

The announcement sees 17723 lobed construction on the targeted branch coming out this fall and building 18204 giving a taste of the delights to come to Windows 10 next spring.

The two builds (also known as RS5 and 19H1 respectively) are pretty much identical at the moment, but insiders quickly enough to end up on the Skip Ahead branch for 19H1 to 2019 before long. The other Insiders still on RS5 (including those in the Slow Ring) get the consolation prize for participating in the next bug bug, helping Microsoft to do a lot of free tests

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Surprisingly at this late stage, Redmond has introduced a new feature with this release. The tiny number of users of Windows Mixed Reality (MR) is ultimately used for cameras mounted on their headsets in the form of the mixed-reality flashlight.

While Acer's MR headsets have the ability to flip over the screen if the user wants a look at the world around him, the new function turns on the camera to open a portal to the real world at any time via a voice command or button. You will be able to see the faces drawn by those around you while remaining immersed in a virtual world.

In addition to the usual set of settings for the Edge Browser, an emojis rafting, a tinkering kiosk mode and some time improvements in accuracy, Redmond is once again trying to tackle Update Rage . The screams of users forced to stop what they do while Windows 10 dives into the waters of Windows Update, sometimes for hours at a time, has reached the ears of the software giant and moves are in course to manage it. [19659002] The new plan is to use a predictive model to determine the best time to restart the device. Not-for-all scary technology will try to predict whether a user has simply left the machine unattended to take a cup of tea or will be gone for the duration before touching the update servers.

Although the technology seems a little exaggerated For what is actually a fairly simple problem, Microsoft believes that the results are "promising".

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The arrival of 19H1 means the end of the RS or Redstone denomination system. This is not the first time that the name Redstone 6 is on the chopping block. NASA astronaut Deke Slayton was scheduled to be flown on a sub-orbital Mercury flight in late 1961 aboard his own Redstone 6 rocket. This mission was canceled in favor of the orbital missions of the Atlas then imminent

Slayton would continue his only spaceflight in the last Apollo capsule as part of the Apollo-Soyuz test project 14 years later.

The remnants of Redstone 6 booster was displayed vertically at the entrance to the Kennedy Space Center until 2004, when he received a full suit of Hurricane Francis.

Microsoft hopes that a similar spell does not expect its own Redstone 5 as the next version of Windows 10 closer. ®