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Microsoft Temporarily Suspends Availability of Windows 10 Builds
Mark Wilson writes: If you haven't already downloaded Windows 10 build 10162 or 10166, you're now too late. Microsoft has suspended the availability of these two builds — previously available on the Slow and Fast rings respectively — in the run up to the big launch day in a couple of weeks' time. As we edge closer and closer to the RTM build of Windows 10, Microsoft is now asking Windows Insiders to stick with the build they currently have installed for the time being. Anyone who hasn't upgraded to these latest preview builds is out of luck. As well as disabling upgrading through Windows Update, Microsoft is also suspending ISOs and activation.
The summary is quite wrong.
Microsoft is asking people to receive the next update via the same channel that they'll eventually use (in a few weeks) to push the operating system to retail users. They didn't say that there would not be more builds (in fact, they explicitly said that there would be). The whole point is to test out the new distribution channel.
Let's see: Windows 3.1 was ok. Win95 sucked. Win98 good. WinME sucked. WinXP great. WinVista sucked. Win7 good. Win8...yeah what about Win8? And what happened to Win9? And now Win10? WTF??!!!
Let me correct you a bit..
Windows 3 (3.1, workgroups) = Great OS for the Time
Windows 95 (a, b, c) = A huge leap forward but very buggy
Windows 98 (rel, SE) = Great but buggy
Windows ME = Useless
Windows 2000 = Excellent OS for the time.
Windows XP = Great
Windows Vista = Great if you had decent driver support.. (the OS was great, was communicability/driver issues people had.)
Windows 7 = Best release to date
Windows 8 (rel, 8.1) = A lesson learned on not listening to the community.
Windows 10 = Good, it's what windows 8 should have been.
As for windows 9, it's been stated several times they would not name of for various 3rd party code comparability reasons.
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) /* 95 and 98 */
{
} else {
Works for me too, and outside the browser, so no cookies needed.
wget http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...
Windows 10 Insider Preview (x64) - Build 10162
Download (3.86 GB)
SHA-1 hash: C1C08D22876F45444880275D26CB5ECB8347620B
http://windows.microsoft.com/e...
It really is in a lot of ways.
1. They still have two separate control panels: The windows vista era one, and the one that uses that butt-ugly 'modern UI' that looks and works like something thrown together on linux 15 years ago, complete with badly rendered fonts. They didn't even try to consolidate them either. Fucking idiotic.
2. The new scheme follows office2013/16's 'all white' mantra, making it hard on the eyes. Like windows vista and up, this is not easily editable. Window metrics are fixed and unchangeable without hacks, like win 8.1.
3. The start menu is usable again, but still isn't as flexible as previous ones. Startisback++ exists and works fine, but still.
4. They totally hosed ddraw fullscreen support which breaks a lot of backward compatibility. There's no reason for this either. Hacks that existed for win 8.1 no longer work (disabledwm.exe).
5. More pointless 'metro' apps that also look like shitty linux X11 from 15 years ago. What's worse is that some of these have replaced traditional windows utilities like calculator.
These are the issues I've noticed. This list is not meant to be all encompassing.