Microsoft unleashes Windows 10 October 2020 Update
Microsoft late Tuesday issued the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, the year's second major update to the operating system. The new update will be rolling out slowly world-wide.
Microsoft: As part of this commitment, we’re pleased to share the features and improvements coming with the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, many of which are requested features from you to help make your experience on Windows even better. Some of the new features include the fan favorite shortcut Alt + Tab which now lets you access your Microsoft Edge tabs, a streamlined design for the Start menu and more.
With this update comes the latest and greatest version of the new Microsoft Edge. Since launching back in January, we’ve seen phenomenal growth and we’re excited it’s included in this update. If you haven’t yet tried the new Microsoft Edge, you should launch it and try it out since we’ve built a better browser with more performance, more privacy and more value back while you browse. If you’re already using our new browser, then you’ve seen first-hand how fast it is and we’re adding great new features every six weeks. Try out Collections to easily save and share content you find online. It’s perfect for holiday shopping, school research and even planning next spring’s camping trip. And it works across PC and mobile so you’re always in sync. We’ve also added Price Comparison so you can easily find the best price when you add an item to a collection, just in time for holiday shopping. In fact, we’re proud to say Microsoft Edge is the best browser for shopping this holiday.
- A refreshing Start. The Start menu has a more streamlined design. A uniform, partially transparent background to the tiles creates a beautiful stage for the redesigned app icons like Calculator, Mail and Calendar. This refined Start design looks great in both dark and light themes, but if you’re looking for a splash of color, first make sure to turn on Windows dark theme and then toggle “Show accent color on the following surfaces” for “Start, taskbar, and action center” under Settings > Personalization > Color to elegantly apply your accent color to the Start frame and tiles.
- Smooth Settings. Settings continues to become a more robust place to access security and device details. Also, now when you go to Settings > System > Display, Advanced display settings, you can change the refresh rate of your display. A higher refresh rate allows for smoother motion of visuals, and depending on what kind of display or monitor you have, you may be able to really crank it up—makes for a great gaming experience.
- 2 in 1 toast elimination. 2-in-1 devices now naturally switch by default to the new tablet experience without the notification toast asking you to switch into the tablet mode when you detach the keyboard, helping to keep you in your flow.
- Noticeable notifications. New app logos at the top of notifications now make it much easier to identify who they are from. And the new “X marks the spot” lets you quickly click, close and get back at it.
- A Taskbar tuned to your liking. Getting a new Windows PC? You will enjoy a cleaner, more personalized, out-of-box experience featuring a taskbar specifically curated for you—less clutter and more content that you’ll love. (This experience is limited to new account creation or first logon scenarios.)
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Btw, 1903 and 1909 got update (October 20, 2020—KB4580386 (OS Builds 18362.1171 and 18363.1171) Preview) and among other things:
Adds functionality that shows a preview of the features and capabilities included in an update when a new update is offered to your device. On the Windows Update page (Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update), there’s an option to “See what’s in this update.”
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MS does not show company name field, but exe-file you show does not fill the copyright field.

Back in XP "Company name" was the first field, it was removed in either Vista or 7.
You can fire up an XP VM to confirm this.
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I mean I reckon this hidden company field is strange but completely minor thing.
IMO, its more than strange. With all of the information still shown, why would you pick "Company name" to be the one that gets hidden? Other than wanting to have other companies to have less exposure within their OS I can't see why they would have done this.
BTW, you can switch to details view in explorer and enable company name to be displayed, so is not like the ability to show this was removed, it is literally hidden from the details tab.
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Installed it yesterday. Upgrade went fine and haven't ran into any issues.
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I am still on 1903. I haven't even installed 2004 yet. That is on my laptop and my Desktop as well. I had to reinstall Windows on my desktop due to my upgrade of my hardware (Going from Intel to AMD) and I chose 1903 at the time for stability purposes because of how 2004 was about 6months old at the time. I will upgrade 2004 as soon as MS gives me the green light to do so.