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Microsoft Temporarily Suspends Availability of Windows 10 Builds

Posted by samzenpus on from the that's-it-for-now dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Dammit by PsychoSlashDot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I botched up my disk drive's EFI partition while trying to install Windows 10. By the time I resolve all my problems, I may not be able to activate the damn install!

    Fortunately you weren't trying out a beta on your production machine, so the two weeks without Win10 won't matter, right?

    --
    "Oh no... he found the .sig setting."
  2. Re: Wonder what MS might be adding for the RTM bui by epyT-R · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.