Just because it is the weekend it doesn’t mean Microsoft aren’t working on new builds. Last night they released 14385 for PC and Mobile. The fixes for PC include removing the Windows expiry warning and improved battery life for the Surface.

 You should no longer see a notification pop-up once a day saying that your Windows evaluation copy expires on 7/15/2016. I know this has caused a lot of you some angst so thank you for being patient.

 We have improved battery life for Surface devices.

 We fixed an issue resulting in Spotify sometimes crashing while playing music.

 We fixed an issue resulting in the Google Chrome window being clipped on the top when maximized.

 We fixed an issue with Mobile Hotspot that could result the host device bug-checking (bluescreen) and rebooting if it was sharing on a 5GHz band and the connected device browsed to certain websites.

 We fixed an issue where the pin prompt shown when connecting to certain VPNs would display behind the other open windows.

 We fixed an issue resulting in LastPass and AdBlock extensions for Microsoft Edge not showing the expected context menu items or status information in subsequently opened Edge windows. We also fixed an issue where the current tab in Edge might hang after exiting Web Notes.

 Projecting to a PC auto-discoverability is off by default. To have your PC beacon so it can be discovered and you can project to it through the Connect quick action from a Continuum enabled phone or another PC, go to Settings > System > Projecting to this PC and set “Windows PCs and phones can project to this PC when you say it’s OK” to “Available everywhere” or “Available everywhere on secure networks”. You can also set other settings on this page to your preference.

The known issues are just for Hyper V and developer mode:

 A recent fix went into place for the Hyper-V firmware that will that affect the ability to boot Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 5 VMs with Secure Boot enabled. A fix for TP5 builds has been developed however, due to release schedules, the Insider Preview build changes will be released before the TP5 fix is released. During that time, if you try to boot a new TP5 VM with Secure Boot enabled, it will fail. The workaround is to disable Secure Boot during this period.

 After you install this build on a PC using a non-EN-US language, you may get error code 0x80004005 when enabling Developer Mode on the “For Developers” Settings Page. Even after seeing this error message, your machine is in developer mode and you should still be able to use Visual Studio to develop Universal Windows Applications. In most cases, this error indicates that extra components required by the operating system to enable additional debugging features in Visual Studio or the Windows Device Portal could not be installed automatically.

For the Mobile battery life has improved and you can once again scroll in PDFs

 You can open PDFs in Microsoft Edge and use touch to interact with the PDF (such as scrolling, pan or zoom) again without it constantly reloading the PDF.

 We have improved battery life for older devices, such as the Lumia 830, 930, and 1520.

 We fixed an issue where setting the SIM name on a dual SIM phone would sometimes fail.

Know issues:

 Voice Recorder does not show up consistently as an option for Call Recording. We heard your feedback and are working actively on this.

 The keyboard doesn’t show up consistently for InPrivate mode on Microsoft Edge. We’re working on this. A workaround is to click on the Microsoft privacy statement hyperlink on that page and then the keyboard works in the search/address bar. We’re working on fixing this.

More details at Microsoft and look out for my hands on video soon.

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