Microsoft continues to apply the electrodes to Windows 10 with an Insider build to deal with single sign-on problems arising from changes made for the European Digital Markets Act and Edge freezing when using Internet Explorer mode.
In December 2023, Microsoft said that one of the ways it'd comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA) was to alter how signing into apps on Windows worked.
If a user with a region set to a country in the EEA signed into Windows, the first application they accessed showed a prompt asking the user if they wished to use the credentials used to sign in to Windows.
All those months back, Microsoft promised: "If the user chooses to use the same credentials they used to sign in to Windows, this notice will not appear again."
The company began to roll out the functionality starting in early 2024.
In August, Microsoft admitted the single sign-on (SSO) notice was still prompting too often under Windows 11 when the user was authenticating using a certificate. The same fix has now arrived for Windows 10 for both Release Preview and Beta Channels.
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It's almost as if Windows 10 and 11 were the same thing, just with the latter having a curvier user interface and a set of hardware requirements that necessitate purchasing new hardware.
The latest Insider build update is understandably lighter in features than its Windows 11 stablemate. After all, a little more than a year is left before Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows 10 support for most users. Still, there are some fixes for the army of users still running the doomed operating system.
Windows freezing when customers use File Explorer and the taskbar, media playback issues, and Microsoft Edge ceasing to respond in Internet Explorer mode are among the resolutions.
While such a browser crash might be maddening for administrators trying to support legacy web applications in a corporate environment, Edge's apparent tendency to ignore any further requests when forced into IE mode is more than understandable as Microsoft ended support for IE in June 2022. ®