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Windows 10 Anniversary Update To Roll Out On August 2

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-Windows-updates dept.

Windows 10's first major update -- dubbed Anniversary Update -- will be released to users on August 2, according to a blog post published by Microsoft (Archive link). The company presumably posted the blog post ahead of the original publication plans, and as a result, quickly pulled the story. Windows 10 Anniversary Update will bring with it a number of major changes including extensions to Edge, and improvements to Cortana and Hello biometric feature. It will also mark the end of the one-year free Windows 10 update offer for Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users.

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  1. By any other name... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a service pack.

    1. Re: By any other name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Great! Always good to get a service pack that improves the security, stability, and performance of the system. Call it what you want but I'm excited for it!

    2. Re: By any other name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Great! Always good to get a service pack that improves the security, stability, and performance of the system.

      LOL!! Right!!

      A year later and Windows 10 is still buggy as shit, not to mention all the horrendously bad design decisions. No matter how good an OS is 'under the hood' it's useless when you've destroyed the UI and crammed it full of pointless crap.

    3. Re: By any other name... by LichtSpektren · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You're just jealous that Windows 10 users don't have to deal with Systemd and GNOME 3.

      The most serial criticisms of system and GNOME 3 are that they're too similar to Windows SCM and Metro, respectively. Thus saying that one should then use Windows to avoid them is a collapsing spiral staircase of lunacy.

  2. Anniversary update.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And then I have to re-turnoff Cortana, reset the switches to block MS-bound data, and in general, try
    to discover the new ways MS has made sure to F-up things so they can anal-probe my machine...

  3. Re:great news by jenningsthecat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's great that those of us normal people who have already updated to Windows 10 will receive this update. Meanwhile, the neckbeards and tinfoil hat Lunix zealots will be stuck without a secure and up to date system. Seems like a good deal to me.

    Obviously you don't have much experience at trolling - that attempt was about as subtle a sledgehammer, and reeked of incompetence. Go away, and don't come back 'til you have some skillz.

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  4. Re:Hope they fixed 2 bugs by stackOVFL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't forget the fuzzy fonts issue. That one drives me nuts.