Windows 10 October 2020 Update has arrived... and so have the fixes. Plus: Fancy a discount on a Surface Duo?

Windows 10 20H2 is out. And yet Windows 10 20H2 also remains lurking in both the Beta and Release Preview Channel for the company's loyal army of unpaid testers. While the latter is understandable, those running the former would be forgiven for hoping that there might be a whiff of things to come in the form of 21H1 (or whatever …

[J. R. Hartley]

SHART

Perfectly named.

[Steve Davies 3]

Just in time for

Bork Tuesday followed by

Patch Wednesday.

Don't cry MS fans. The Apple team have the delights (sic) of 'Big Sur' to come. That is gonna cause problems the side of Mount St Helens before it blew its top.

[Richard Jones 1]

Does Windows 10 20H2 Exist? Should I Care?

My 10-month-old PC has no sight of Windows 10 20H2 and its claimed contents failed to set my pulse racing.

[Terry 6]

20H2

None of my home machines have 2004 yet. No sign of it being offered.

Not greatly bothered tbh.

[Real Ale is Best]

That's great...

... if I could get Windows to update at all.

It tells me there are missing updates, tries to install them, then:

Windows Error 0x800f0988 - I can't be arsed.

Reboot, disconnect hardware, run trouble shooter, make more free space. Nope, not going to work.