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

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