You’ll see the local weather to the left of your notification area icons on the taskbar. Microsoft is adding a “News and Interests” pane to the taskbar. Weather and News on the Taskbar Microsoft RELATED: Windows 11: What's New In Microsoft's New OSīelow, you can see what Microsoft was originally working on. If you want more features, take a look at Windows 11-there’s where Microsoft added them. That’s it! As usual, the update also includes various minor bug fixes, security patches, and performance improvements. (The standard Windows Hello feature is available to everyone.) Cloud Trust is a new method businesses can use to deploy Windows Hello for Business.

Windows Hello for Business Cloud Trust: Windows Hello for Business is designed to help businesses deploy devices that don’t need passwords to sign in.

Microsoft says it will be delivered in a future monthly update after the release: One of the update’s features isn’t even available at release.

GPU Compute Support in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): Windows 10 will make your computer’s GPU available to software running in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW.) This means applications that require GPU acceleration-like machine learning computing workflows-will work with WSL on Windows 10.

This is required when using WPA3 with Wi-Fi 6E (on the 6 GHz band.)

WPA3 H2E support: The “SAE Hash to Element” standard improves Wi-Fi security when you use WPA3-enabled hardware that supports the standard.

Here’s the final, very limited list of new features:

However, we will leave the article largely intact for historical reference. They have largely been moved to the Windows 11 release. We were originally tracking a variety of features, which Microsoft was working on for the 21H2 update.

Windows 21h2 release date