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Microsoft Introduces Build Cadence Selection With Windows 10
jones_supa writes: Microsoft has just released Windows 10 TP build 9860. Along with the new release, Microsoft is introducing an interesting cadence option for how quickly you will receive new builds. The "ring progression" goes from development, to testing, to release. By being in the slow cadence, you will get more stable builds, but they will arrive less often. By choosing the fast option, it allows you to receive the build on the same day that it is released. As a quick stats update, to date Microsoft has received over 250,000 pieces of feedback through the Windows Feedback tool, 25,381 community forum posts, and 641 suggestions in the Windows Suggestion Box.
Hopefully all this community feedback translates into functional changes in the operating system. They made a huge mistake with Windows 8 by relying on the standard Windows 7 feedback mechanism (that seemingly most people turned off) so this looks like a much better solution with much broader participation.
As well as Yosemite does?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
This is a good approach from Microsoft, they finally listened to its users.
No. Windows is a dog.
from debian stable/testing/sid, or firefox esr/standard/beta/nightly or any one of the other software products with similar release schemes?
I am waiting for it's return and more sane not all blinding white and borderless pastel colors. Tabs in explorer not implemented yet either.
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Is this anything like Ubuntu Long Term Support as compared to the standard release schedule?
The amount of feedback isn't surprising, but I would be surprised if anyone in the Redmond bubble ever made any changes (even slight) in response to any of that feedback. By the time they have a public release they're too far along in their big-company release process to accomodate changes.
Sticking with windows for software compatibility, full blown and rich feature drivers(video, audio, tv adapter, printer), productive suits(adobe creative suit and autodesk), VS 2013, office 2013, gaming, media center for tv adapter, easy installing software no dependency issues.
I'm not a big fan of the flat color look but I do like the Metro experience. I just hope MS gets rid of the app title bar and context menu for the Metro since the old desktop is coming back and there is no more need trying to turn the Metro into the old desktop way. I never liked the MS start menu or the Aero which strains my eyes. Kde with all the effects barely strains my eyes.
I would drop Windows in a minute If all the things I need were available on Linux or even BSD(freebsd, pc-bsd). I have always liked the themes, desktop customizations, the many DE's for linux. MS have always done things half-ass, windows 7 no second taskbar for dual monitor.
That was under Sinofsky. He was fired.
He wanted to take advantage of old middle aged users afraid of change to get used to it so they will all stick with Windows Phone after being broken in.
MS is on the right step. The feedback tool and not re leasing isos and instead forcing updates to as many users as possible shows they are listening.
Returning the start menu and un-fullscreening applets shows it is paying attention. Tablet and hybrid users get a metroized big left start menu and screen which you can turn off.
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Well at least in theory they are in a faster release cadence/no more big release mode: so "too far along" is now 6 months rather than 6 years: a big improvement.
I'd like to see native virtual monitor display splitting. Large, high-resolution displays often beg to be subdivided into smaller displays but treated as if there were separate monitors. I feel like a lot of screen space is wasted with wide displays, especially with applications and web sites that don't take advantage of it well.
I've tried several utilities that do this, but none were all that usable or useful. Display Fusion will do it well, but only even divisions. Uneven splits are coming but it's been several months since they said they would add it. And I'm not sure it will allow for things like 3 way splits (ie, one portrait with two landscape next to it).
I'd also like to see the opposite, display combining, treating a subset of monitors as a single monitor. Even though the bezel is an irritant, there are times where it would be nice to treat more than one monitor as a single display but not be forced to accept it across all displays.
Being able to scale virtual displays would be nice, too, the way you can with RDP. It'd be nice to take a keep-track logging or status window that really needs a big window to be used but could be scaled into a smaller window to be just kept an eye on, even if it wasn't totally usable.
Anon-coward so not likely to get a response directly but its been a while: does the version of Debian/Ubuntu you install determine what happens when you update? Ie you do an apt-get update do you only get "long term support" updates if that was what you initially installed or does it by default get the newest version of whatever you have installed? If so I guess it is equivalent. I assume internally this has been going on in MS for a while/probably for ever. Devs on the OS team probably have builds running on at least one of their boxes/VMs that are 1 week old: they have to to do their job. It is just a matter of how early on the gravy train customers are allowed in that has changed.
It's very much in the users hands. Generally, a release (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL) sticks to the version for the OS. In Ubuntu and Debian, if you have backports enabled, it will grab newer versions of the software if it has been vetted stable by the OS team. Or you can add a developer PPA and grab the newest releases as they come. In Fedora you have the option to either add a seperate repo to yum (I've got a couple of repos on Fedora to get upstream stable rather then just the OS version) OR you can allow rawhide for certain packages/groups if you want to stay bleeding edge
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
Not surprising about this post, or that it's modded insightful. After all, if anyone bother to read TFA, they'd see that Microsoft is already implementing user-requested changes. But hey, don't let facts ruin a good MS bashing.
Animation for switching desktops. One of the pieces of feedback that you gave us was that it was hard to know when you were switching desktops. We addressed your feedback by adding an animation to make it clear that you are switching. Check it out by creating some new desktops and moving between them.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
As a quick stats update, to date Microsoft has received over 250,000 pieces of feedback through the Windows Feedback tool, 25,381 community forum posts, and 641 suggestions in the Windows Suggestion Box.
And like and good corp they will ignore every single one and do whatever the fuck they want anyway.
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I use a rolling Distro (PCLinuxOS) that doesn't use the bleeding edge, all the apps are put in to "testing" and me and others test the crap out of it before it's put in to the repository proper for the ordinary folks (for want of a better phrase). this way there are a lot less issues to fix, but we still have limited testers, not the Millions Microsoft have and still have a very stable and nice working environment regardless of the DM used, KDE, Mate etc. For some reason Microsoft still haven't fixed the USB feature from 1996 ffs. (The feature is it keeps loading fucking drivers for a USB pen every time you plug the thing in to another USB port, fucking annoying, that goes for my usb DVB-T tvcard and USB Hard drives too, I mean wtf.) Glad they seem to be listening to other complaints though.
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But animation is bad! I always make sure my computer has 16+GB of RAM and top of the line processor and video cards, but am very angry if any of it gets used.
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And that is "upgrade only when I tell you to."
Really -- THAT's how you interpret that sentence?
Me, I figure the process is this;
1) Top Exec gets "vision"
2) Worker drones in various departments feverishly compete for solution.
3) Solution is not compatible with other departments.
4) Hapless new guy gets Vision Solution and the rest implement a generic version that is compatible.
5) Least common denominator patch solution gets implemented.
6) Marketing figures out a way to describe the moderate and stable change as "Visionary".
7) Someone digs up a customer email in their data warehouse of suggesting for a match.
8) Marketing department posts email request from user and let's people know; "Microsoft is Listening"
9) 3 billion suggestions and 4 billion "You suck" comments get compressed and moved back to the data warehouse waiting for the next visionary release, right next to the Arc of the Covenant.
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As long as the issue gets fixed, I don't care if the master plan for Windows 10 was handed down to them by the Freemasons in a bid to tip the balance of power in the ongoing secret war against the Illuminati, both of whom the Catholic Church are quite cleverly pitting against each other in order to weaken and ultimately topple it's centuries old rivals in an epic bid for world domination.
Or maybe Microsoft just got a lot of feedback and decided to fix the problem.
Either one is totally plausible.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.