As is customary in the Windows ecosystem, two different updates are released per month. On the one hand we have the cumulative patches, the second Tuesday of the month, which include corrections for all the security patches released in the last month and the quality patches of the last month. And, on the other hand, we have the new quality patches, available at the end of the month, which seek to correct bugs and problems in the operating system not related to security. So, after the May security patches, now it is the turn of the KB5003214 quality update.
For a few hours, Microsoft has made available to users its new optional , quality update for Windows 10. This update is the first that does not reach version 1909 after it reached its end of life two years ago. weeks. In addition, it is the first quality update that users who have already updated to the May 2021 Update , Windows 10 update 21H1, will receive.What the KB5003214 patch brings to Windows 10
The only “novelty” that we can find in this new update is that the ” News and Interests ” panel is now available to more users. If the new Bing news and weather widget has not yet appeared, after installing this new quality update it is easy to finally have it available.
In addition to this new feature, this new patch brings a large number of bug fixes . Many of them are very low-level bugs that could only be experienced by users performing very specific tasks. However, there are several bugs that could affect our team:
This update has fixed an issue that caused the Your Phone app to consume huge amounts of resources on the PC. And it has also fixed an issue that prevented launching Android apps from the system taskbar.
After installing the update, HDR videos can be played back smoothly on non-HDR-enabled monitors, and noises, crackles, or pops when using 5.1 surround sound headphones are gone. And some bugs that could negatively affect PC performance have also been fixed.
Download the patch … if you dare
After this update reached Insider users within the Beta and Release channels, now it is the turn of all non-Insider users, those who use stable versions of the operating system. This patch is currently only available to download and install by hand from the Microsoft Update catalog. Therefore, to install it, we will have to download it from this link .
We hope that, in the next few hours, this update will reach all users through Windows Update , but for now, it has not yet appeared. When it does, we can see it as an optional update, which we can choose if we want to download it or leave it as “pending”. And, seeing the problems that the latest quality patches have brought, the best option is to let it go.
On June 8, Patch Tuesday, the new security patches will arrive for Windows 10. And they will include this quality patch, with all the corrections.