Microsoft Releases New Windows 10 Preview with Emoji 12.0

Microsoft today released a new preview of Windows 10 with Emoji 12.0. The update forces Windows 10 from version 18841 (made available to testers on February 20) to version 18845. These versions come from branch 20H1, which represents the Windows 10 update that will arrive in the first half of the year. next year.

Windows 10 is developed as a service, which means that it regularly receives new features. Until now, Microsoft has released six major updates: November update, birthday update, creator updates, fall creators update, updates to day of April 2018 and update of October 2018.

Emoji 12.0 was finalized earlier this month. The emoji game to be included in Emoji 12.0 is now decided by Unicode, Microsoft has added it to Windows 10. When you press WIN + (dot) or WIN + (semicolon), all these emoji appear when you look for their name. keywords (otter, laziness, waffle, ballet shoes, etc.).

This release is for Windows insiders who have chosen the Ignore Advance option, which only a small subset of insiders can choose. Normally this would have meant 19H2 builds, since 19H1 has not been released yet, but Microsoft has chosen to really skip this time. That said, Microsoft has not added many new features yet. Careful people will notice that the changes and fixes in this release are very similar to the 18342 version of the 19H1 branch.

Bug fixes and known issues

This 20H1 release includes the following general bug fixes and enhancements:

• Fixed an issue that caused the Bluetooth Hands-Free audio driver to hang.
• Fixed a problem preventing some insiders from accessing the quest section of the comment center.
• Fixed a problem causing a decrease in the reliability of the Start menu during the previous flight.
• Fixed a problem causing Microsoft Edge to crash when launching some insiders during the previous flight.
• Small adjustments so that the help icon in the file explorer looks better when the dark theme is activated.
• Issue resolved: In some languages, if you pressed WIN + V before choosing the clipboard history, the clipboard history user interface would be truncated.
• Fixed a problem with the new Adlam keyboard that prevented the input of some common words.
• Problem solved: when typing in Vietnamese, the touch keyboard automatically capitalized each word in some applications.
• Fixed a problem that could cause unexpected flickering if you use a stylus or key in some win32 applications to launch a second instance of the application in tablet mode.
• Fixed a problem that could cause DWM to hang after activating high contrast.
• Issue resolved: When certain friendly dates were enabled in the File Explorer, in some languages ​​(such as Japanese and Chinese), the wrong day name was displayed by insiders.
• Fixed a problem that caused an unexpected and non-functional family safety icon to appear in the notification area of ​​the taskbar.
• Fixed an issue where the search box text on the taskbar could become black on a black background.
• Issue resolved: The Start menu was crashing while using Narrator to browse folders pinned in Start.

This version has nine known issues:

• Launching games using anti-cheat software may trigger a bug check (GSOD).
• Some reliability issues with the night light remain.
• For display calibration scenarios, it is possible that monitors are missing from the built-in color management application. To work around the problem, use the Settings application to select the color profile on the Display Settings page.
• Some Realtek SD card readers do not work properly.
• In Windows Sandbox, if you try to access the Narrator settings, the Settings application crashes.
• It is possible that the color of the mouse pointer is incorrectly blank after disconnection and reconnection.
• Creative X-Fi sound cards do not work properly.
• If you install one of the recent versions from the Ignore option in advance and switch to fast ring or slow ring, the optional content such as the activation of the developer mode will fail. You will need to stay in the Quick Ring to add / install / activate optional content. This is because the optional content installs only on approved versions for specific rings.

As always, do not install this on your production machine.