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Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com)
Ammalgam writes: Microsoft has rolled out a major update to Windows 10 called the Fall Update, November Update or Threshold 2. The update is now publicly available for everyone to download. Microsoft has confirmed it will be a staggered release. This update is full of fixes and refinements to Windows 10 including substantial changes to Edge, Cortana, icons, the Start Menu, Activation and multiple enterprise features. Here is a full list of changes. Have you updated your Windows 10 install yet? What was your experience?
> Have you updated your Windows 10 install yet?
Windows 10 is more of a downdate.
On the bright side, Microsoft is now claiming that the present-from-launch "disable telemetry" option for Enterprise, not present on anything you or I can buy with dollars, will actually disable telemetry. Previously, disable telemetry did not disable telemetry, only scripts from Russians disabled telemetry. Perhaps now it actually will- though, as always, I'd suggest you use wireshark on an intermediate device to be sure- after all, previously disable telemetry continued to send telemetry.
Spying continues unabated on home and pro- enterprise is corporate only. Corporations can now get some privacy. It would be madness to extend that to individuals, I guess.
You honestly think they are gonna end the "free" upgrade? What I find funny as hell personally is they could have already reached their 1 billion goal if they simply allowed the pirates to become legit Win 10 users, did they do that? Nope it allows them to install then nags the fuck out of them for money until they roll back to their working pirate edition LOL!
What is even more sad is this Win 10 bullshit is making legit users go pirate as I've had several customers come in with the pirate version of Win 7 on their system DESPITE their laptop having a legit key on the bottom, why? Because when the Win 10 update either shat itself or the rolback didn't work they simply used the built in recovery partition and got their legit key marked as bad which would have meant dealing with a phone call to MSFT...or they could just download a Win 7 activator that fixes the problem in 2 seconds flat..../facepalm/.
MSFT, c'mere....WTF are you DOING man? Are you TRYING to kill yourself? I mean for fuck's sake Ballmer ran the place better than Nadella is running it, Good Lord is there NOBODY there that has a functioning brain? I mean you could have knocked it out the park, made Win 10 into the next 95 and all you had to do was LISTEN, it was soooo simple, just 1.- Make Win 10 Win 7 with the faster backend of 8 like WIMBoot, 2.- Set a sensible price like $40 for Home and $60 for Pro for the first year with Win 7 3.- Sell Family packs at 4 licenses for $100 for Home, and TADA! Home run! Everybody is singing your praises and talking about how fucking great you are!
Instead you fill Win 10 so full of spyware any company that has to follow HIPPA or SOX will treat it like plague blankets and the rumors has home users treating it like a malware infection...sigh. I never thought this day would come but now I'm, I swear to God, actually RECOMMENDING Windows 8, because at least with 8 you can kill the telemetry and with Classic Shell you can make it into Win 7...THAT is what you've done MSFT, you have made an OS soooo damned shitty it makes Win 8 a recommendation.....ARGH!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Windows 10 requires SecureBoot, so you can't dual-boot Linux Mint with it. Since Microsoft made me choose between them, I updated to Linux.
Wrong. Win 10 does not require Secure Boot. I have Mint 17.2 dual-booting with Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron. You just have to turn off Secure Boot and install grub in the EFI partition.