Windows 10 news recap: 21H1 arrives for “seekers” in Beta, Outlook for Windows gains “Meet Now” button, and more

Welcome back to our Windows 10 news recap, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s flagship operating system.

New optional patches are available for Windows 10 versions 1909 and 1809

Windows 10 versions 1909 and 1809 have received some optional updates this week that focus on resolving some bugs. If you’re running either of those versions of Windows 10, it’s recommended that you update.

Outlook for Windows adds “Meet Now” button to start Teams meeting even faster

To make it easier to start a meeting in Microsoft Teams, Outlook for Windows has a new “Meet Now” button to make it faster to start a meeting.

You can now start an ad-hoc #MicrosoftTeams meeting from the Outlook desktop client via the new "Meet Now" button in the calendar pic.twitter.com/jJvdXsaRKX

— Randy Chapman (@randychapman) February 12, 2021

Windows 10 version 21H1 is now available for “seekers” in the Beta Channel

For those on the Beta Channel of the Windows 10 Insider program, Windows 10 version 21H1 is now available to ‘seekers’. It’s a small update, but if you’re part of the Beta Channel, head over to Windows Update within Settings in order to download and install the update.

That’s it for this week. We will be back next week with more Windows 10 news.