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Windows 10 Anniversary Update: the Best New Features (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-windows-update dept.

A year after the release of Windows 10, Microsoft is gearing up for Anniversary Update, the first major update to the company's desktop operating system. Ahead of the public release of Anniversary Update on August 2, Microsoft provided media outlets with the Anniversary Update, and their first impressions and reviews are out. The Verge has listed the big changes Windows 10 Anniversary ships with. From the article: Windows Ink: Windows Ink is without a doubt the best part of the Anniversary Update. It's essentially a central location to find built-in or third-party apps that work with your stylus. You can use the new sticky notes to note down reminders, and they'll even transform into true reminders as Cortana understands what you write.
Microsoft Edge extensions: If you're a fan of Chrome extensions, then you'll be glad to hear that they're heading to Microsoft's Edge browser. The Anniversary Update brings support for extensions, and it's now up to third-party developers to fill the Windows Store with their add-ons.
Cortana improvements: Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana, debuted on Windows 10 last year, and the software maker is bringing it to the lock screen with the Anniversary Update. You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in. Cortana is also getting a little more intelligent, with the ability to schedule appointments in Outlook or options to send friends a document you were working on a week ago.
Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings, and it will switch built-in apps that typically use a white background over to black.Other improvements include things like Windows 10's ability to set your time zone automatically, and opening up of Windows Hello, the biometric feature to apps and websites. Additionally, the Xbox One is getting Windows apps. The Verge adds, "It feels like a promise that was made years ago, but it's finally coming true with the Anniversary Update. As Windows 10 now powers the Xbox One, Microsoft will start rolling out an update to its console to provide support for Cortana on Xbox One and the new universal apps." Microsoft is also adding Bash, the Linux command line to Windows with the new update. It's an optional feature and users will need to enable it to use it. Users will also be able to "project to PC," a feature that will allow one to easily find a PC to project to from a phone or another PC. There's also a new Skype app, and syncing of notifications between PC and phone is getting better.
Going by the reviews, it appears Windows 10 Anniversary Update is substantially more stable, and has interesting new features. You can read the first impressions of it on ZDNet, and review on PCWorld.

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  1. Basically... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Basically, there's still nothing in it for us workstation/desktop users, it's all about mobile and apps. I'm definitely staying on Windows 7.

    1. Re: Basically... by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Windows Ink big deal. Why do I need that when I can just talk to my phone?

      The problem is that Microsoft is trying to Horn in on the market it doesn't have but that's already taken over by the smartphones.

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    2. Re:Basically... by chaosmind · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Bash.... my all-time favorite piece of software, is coming to Windows 10 (which I am forced to use at work). This is cause to rejoice!

    3. Re:Basically... by exomondo · · Score: 2

      Basically, there's still nothing in it for us workstation/desktop users, it's all about mobile and apps. I'm definitely staying on Windows 7.

      What is it you want? Personally I don't think there's much else I need in the OS for workstation tasks and frankly my day to day experience using Windows 10 is pretty much the same as Windows 7, but then again I'm not an IT guy spending time fixing and configuring the OS. The improvements of interest to me there are the DPI scaling for multiple monitors and Bash in Windows (mainly because I work mostly on Linux and OSX so having a common shell is nice).

    4. Re:Basically... by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2

      Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka "Bash for Windows", but that's a horrible misnomer IMO) is a big deal for power users.

    5. Re: Basically... by Miamicanes · · Score: 3, Insightful

      > What is it you want

      1. A Start menu that isn't the nemesis of anyone who has ADHD who gets easily distracted.

      2. A start menu that works like Windows 7's. I'm not a Luddite. If Microsoft came up with a genuinely better idea, I'd use it happily. Windows 10's start menu is an unambiguous step downward from Windows 7's. And it's butt-ugly, too.

      3. I want Microsoft to quit crippling desktop apps and making them ugly for the benefit of tablets and phones that statistically, nobody even owns or wants anyway. I want Ubuntu to quit doing it, too, btw. At least with Ubuntu, Unity can be ignored and replaced.

      4. I want the ability and right to decline future updates. Microsoft wants to make sure we can never again snub a future fuckup like Windows 8 and turn our backs on it. Sure, it's only a matter of time until openwrt adds an option to block windows update... But it's also only a matter of time until Microsoft has Windows deactivate itself if its attempts to download updates get frustrated too many times.

      5. I want Aero Glass back, dammit. I paid $400 extra to get a discrete Quadro 3-D graphics card for my laptop just so I could enjoy Aero Glass in all its hardware-accelerated splendor. I really like it. Yes, I know we can (temporarily) re-enable it by copying dll files from Windows 7, but how long until Microsoft takes that away, too (see point 4)

      6. I want Windows Media Center with full CableLabs-certified support for DVR'ing cablecard content flagged COPY_ONCE... Just like Windows 7 has.

      Did I miss anything?

    6. Re: Basically... by exomondo · · Score: 2

      1. A Start menu that isn't the nemesis of anyone who has ADHD who gets easily distracted.

      2. A start menu that works like Windows 7's. I'm not a Luddite. If Microsoft came up with a genuinely better idea, I'd use it happily. Windows 10's start menu is an unambiguous step downward from Windows 7's. And it's butt-ugly, too.

      If you don't like the built in one then use a custom shell. This is what we have been doing on Linux for as long as we have had desktop linux and even for many years on Windows with custom shells, sadly this concept of customizing the default system is lost on most Windows users.

      3. I want Microsoft to quit crippling desktop apps and making them ugly for the benefit of tablets and phones that statistically, nobody even owns or wants anyway.

      What desktop apps are you talking about? The key desktop apps I use: Visual Studio, 3ds max & Photoshop look the same on 10 as they did on 7.

      At least with Ubuntu, Unity can be ignored and replaced.

      You've always been able to replace the shell on Windows too, it's just that for the most part nobody cared enough to do it.

      5. I want Aero Glass back, dammit. I paid $400 extra to get a discrete Quadro 3-D graphics card for my laptop just so I could enjoy Aero Glass in all its hardware-accelerated splendor.

      Each to their own but I'm glad they finally got rid of that, it was mostly hated when it came out too.

      6. I want Windows Media Center with full CableLabs-certified support for DVR'ing cablecard content flagged COPY_ONCE... Just like Windows 7 has.

      That's not really an operating system thing and was pretty limited in its audience even in the US so I can see why they dropped it.

    7. Re: Basically... by Darinbob · · Score: 2

      It's been shown that writing something down helps you remember it more. If you just listen then you've probably forgotten most of it by the time the lecture is over.

      And that's writing it down, which meant pen and paper most likely, not sure how it compares to typing it in. As for stylus, sheesh, stop being so elite and get a friggin pad of paper. College is expensive enough without getting the latest conspicuous consumption toy.

  2. Best new feature.... by thundercattt · · Score: 5, Funny

    It rolls back to Windows 7. The villagers rejoice

  3. Slashvertisements by LichtSpektren · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Going by the reviews, it appears Windows 10 Anniversary Update is substantially more stable"

    How the hell can you judge an OS's stability before it's even out?

    1. Re:Slashvertisements by b0bby · · Score: 3, Informative

      Agreed; and since both Windows 7 and 10 are already pretty darn stable, it's hard to imagine how they could make it substantially more so in a way anyone could notice.

    2. Re:Slashvertisements by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      Windows 8.1 is my current favourite. 7 is getting a bit long in the tooth now, and 8.1 has some nice security enhancements. Bitlocker with SSD self-encryption is really nice too, no performance loss and pretty good security. 8.1 also handles monitors with different DPIs and apps that don't support DPI settings much better.

      With Classic Start Menu installed it's my new default choice.

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    3. Re:Slashvertisements by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2

      A few tens of thousands of users have been using it for a few months now.

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  4. "Substantially more stable" is a feature?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Public beta testing has never been more blatant.

  5. Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by ICantFindADecentNick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Automatic timezone, Dark theme. Whoopy do. Sounds like the bottom of the features barrel being scraped to make items for the story. I'm still sticking with Win7. My laptop doesn't need to be confused with a phone - and I don't want all of the telemetry/spyware.

  6. Slashdot Commenter by Merk42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't read the summary, but It's Microsoft, and therefore bad.
    Now everyone pat me on the pack because of my wit with +5 Insightful.

  7. Interesting ... but not things I use much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Going from what's mentioned in the summary...

    Ink - no touch screen
    Edge - I don't use either it or Chrome
    Cortana - I only use it in my Windows Phone which is stuck at 8.1 (and probably better for it); aggressively disabled in the laptop
    Dark Theme - why revert to the b/w TV look of my original Radio Shack Model 1?
    Auto Time Zone Setting - requires Location Services, which I have disabled for privacy reasons except on the phone
    Windows Hello - don't have a fingerprint sensor, and keep the camera off/covered
    Xbox - don't have one
    BASH - interesting, but if I want Linux I'll get Linux (it's in a VirtualBox for now)
    Project to PC - how is this different from Remote Access, which I normally block for privacy/security reasons?
    New Skype - I never used the old one, and since it no longer supports any Windows but 10 why bother (phone is 8.1)?
    Phone/PC Sync - works fine now using BT or cable; which lily are they gilding?

    No mention of whether they've fixed the massive latency issues that forced me to roll back the desktop used for sound editing to Win7.

    I'll get it automagically (if it doesn't just crash things) in the laptops, but based on this list it doesn't look like it'll be an improvement, though maybe not any worse. Will probably have to spend a day ferreting out the new and reset privacy settings, though. Meh?

    1. Re:Interesting ... but not things I use much by iampiti · · Score: 2

      Dark Theme? How about a Windows 7 theme. That's one that I'd use.
      I don't know how integrated with the OS this Bash is but you can already get Bash for Windows from Mingw-w64 and others.

    2. Re:Interesting ... but not things I use much by dargaud · · Score: 2, Interesting
      100% behind you. Did they add what I actually need ?
      • - readable fonts. The current font aliasing is horrible, horrible, horrible. Yes, they provide ways to tweak it, but it's useless gobshite. Even external tweakers can't seem to make them less fuzzy and more readable.
      • - a Win2K theme. WinXP if you want to go extra fancy (not me).
      • - a file explorer window without all the extra shit of 'anything goes' as virtual folders. And with proper indentation of trees, not just 2 pixels. And lines.
      • - actual buttons where there is something to press. Grey on grey without border doesn't fucking count. I have to click at random on your stupid shit of a user interface to figure out where the buttons are and where the comments are yah fucking cunts.
      • - a single button (or a single page) to disable all the spy stuff, instead of having to find 2 page-long list on forums and downloads utility progs to do it for me.
      • - give us an option to get rid of all the ribbons and replace them with old-style menus with accelerator keys, it saves a lot of vertical real estate and your icons look like shit. If I wanted to have stupid looking icons everywhere instead of plain text, I'd learn chinese (no offence to the chinese).

      Yes, I hate it. All the good stuff has been replaced with wastes of time and ugly shit. If I hate it so much, why do I use it ? It's in a VM under Linux for the 3 windows programs I still need to use.

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  8. BASH by Spock151 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is Slashdot.. The best and "only" new feature is BASH.. Who cares about the rest...

    1. Re:BASH by bigdady92 · · Score: 2

      Wish I had mod points to give this +5 ALLIGIVEASHITABOUT

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    2. Re:BASH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The description is terrible. It's not bash; it's the ability to execute Linux binaries natively (one of which happens to be bash) as an NT subsystem. So you can run basically any Linux binary and it includes a complete Ubuntu (for whatever reason) userland.

    3. Re:BASH by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Informative

      Windows now runs Linux binaries. Just install the damn underpinnings if you want to. Nothing's stopping you. You can run an entire Linux DE now naively under Windows which is effectively the most complicated desktop application your computer's likely to execute.

      If you don't understand the significance of this then it's not Microsoft's problem.

    4. Re:BASH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Windows now runs Linux binaries.

      Wait, so now I can run wine inside windows? That would probably solve most incompatibility problems for windows applications. :-)

    5. Re:BASH by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      Don't worry systemd will be ported to Windows soon.

    6. Re:BASH by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      As reliable as wikipedia is there's instructions on how to get Ubuntu's Unity to run full desktop apps under Windows 10 and a working preview was discussed here a few weeks ago.

    7. Re:BASH by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's effectively a Linux syscall emulation layer + ELF loader, and Ubuntu running on top of that.

      So kernelspace is entirely Windows (including drivers, filesystem support etc), but it presents Linux kernel ABI to the userspace. So userspace is just regular Linux. So there's no special "knowledge" between the two parts, aside from the ABI.

      Filesystem is effectively shared, with a mapping system in place (Linux "partition" is in reality just an NTFS folder, while Windows drive letters are exposed as mount points in Linux).

      Because the implementation sits directly on top of the NT kernel, side-by-side with Win32 (and not on top of it, like Cygwin does), it can efficiently provide proper semantics for things like fork().

    8. Re:BASH by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2

      You should be able to, yes. Running GUI apps is still a bit of a hassle right now, since the emulation layer doesn't extend to graphics drivers and X. But you can run an X server for Windows (e.g. Xming), and tell your Linux apps to use that.

  9. Not much features when they list non-features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's see, four major features

    - "You can use your stylus..." uh, my PC doesn't have a stylus or a touchscreen, so this is a non-feature developed just so you can further push your Surface tablets.
    - "WE HAVE BROWSER EXTENSIONS TOO!" - it is now an OS feature when you add missing bits to your bundled browser
    - "We're improving Cortana" - which nobody uses. Another non-feature. I don't want to talk to my PC because it is stupid and because it means piping everything from my mic to Microsoft servers
    - "Dark UI theme" - see, we can do PALETTE SWAPS! Major OS feature right there.

    XBox One software - all tied to Windows Store which means all your purchases go byebye the moment Microsoft decides to drop this feature (they very quick to drop everything they do, so no, I'm not going to buy anything that is tied to MS-controlled service that can be killed without warning as soon as MS beancounter or two decides that it is not making enough money this quarter). Yes, Windows is also tied to MS servers these days, but at least with their OS I don't think they're going to scrap it quite so easily. Their store I'm far less sure about (see: Games for Windows live store, for an example)

    1. Re: Not much features when they list non-features by Miamicanes · · Score: 2

      And loss of access WILL eventually happen. I made the mistake of buying three WMV-HD discs back around 2006 (when Microsoft was threatening to back a renegade red-laser DVD-ROM based 720p24 competing format unless Blu Ray and HD-DVD made VC9 a mandatory codec). None of them will play as HD .wmv files anymore, because Microsoft took down their fucking DRM keyserver.

  10. Re:Noooooooo by LichtSpektren · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is days before a huge LAN party I'm going to, I finally got everything set up the way I want it in Windows 10

    IT BURNS

    Isn't life grand, when you rent your computer from Microsoft rather than owning and controlling it?

  11. No, that's not insecure at all... by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in. "

    All I can think when reading that is "attack vector." No matter how much they claim it's limited, sand-boxed, walled off and segregated from the rest of the system, someone will figure out a way to gain system access through it. Microsoft may as well advertise Windows 10, Now With Built In Password Bypass!

    1. Re:No, that's not insecure at all... by UnknowingFool · · Score: 2

      Can you turn it off is the question? Given the way MS has behaved with the Windows 10 Upgrades, I wouldn't be surprised if the "Off" setting merely was "Hide". The true Off setting might be a Registry key change.

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  12. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by kruug · · Score: 2

    Cortana only logs what is necessary to do her job. Want to be reminded of calendar events? Well, then you'll have to give Cortana access to your calendar. Want to have package tracking automatically from e-mails? Well, then Cortana will need access to your email account. People want features but bitch about the data necessary to drive these features. It's funny how that works.

  13. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that by this point, anyone who is aware of and cares about Win10 spyware has already disabled automatic updates on their Win7 machines, and goes through the list manually every week or two to pick up actually-critical updates.

  14. Super Exciting! by idontgno · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's run through that announced feature list.

    • Windows Ink: Windows Ink is without a doubt the best part of the Anniversary Update. It's essentially a central location to find built-in or third-party apps that work with your stylus. -- Irrelevant. Don't use a stylus on my Win 10 machine.
    • Microsoft Edge extensions: If you're a fan of Chrome extensions, then you'll be glad to hear that they're heading to Microsoft's Edge browser. -- Irrelevant. If I were a fan of Chrome extensions, I'd continue using Chrome. I wouldn't use Edge at gunpoint.
    • Cortana improvements: Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana, debuted on Windows 10 last year, and the software maker is bringing it to the lock screen with the Anniversary Update. -- Irrelevant. I neutralized Cortana as effectively as I could as soon as I could, and the only improvement Win 10 Anniversary could bring would be the ability to completely uninstall it.
    • Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings -- Irrelevant, because I am not a emo self-cutter in black duster and unlaced combat boots. But, uh, yaaay for those guys?

    So, a hugely marketed mixed bag of fail and irrelevant. I am soooo glad I upgraded to Win 10 on my guinea pig machine.

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  15. Only one "feature" I want. by ilsaloving · · Score: 2

    I want control of my f__king computer back.

    Until Microsoft decides that we have to at least give them permission before they shove their hand up to the elbow into my computers lower colon, I will never use Windows 10.

  16. Re:But it's still Windows 10 by ljw1004 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so it's still a mobile UI forced onto a workstation OS? No thanks.

    Yeah, nothing quite says "mobile UI" like a bash command prompt...

  17. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by LichtSpektren · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cortana only logs what is necessary to do her job.

    You sound pretty confident of that (even though the source is closed so unless you're the one who wrote Cortana you would have no idea). Perhaps then you can explain why opening Notepad will result in Windows 10 contacting 107 different domains, including watson.live.com and m.adnxs.com?

  18. Re:Is Microsoft paying you? by chipschap · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article is some of the most blatant pro-MS advertising I've seen on /. to date. If I want to read MS ads, there are plenty of other sources.

  19. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by Eponymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm genuinely curious about this - what exactly is it that you want to do with Cortana? I've been running W10 on my home machine (desktop) since the original release and I've always had it configured to deactivate Cortana as much as possible (it's still always running though). I've never once been tempted to turn it on. Is there some use case that I'm not thinking about?

    I understand the use case on mobile, but I don't see the value on a desktop machine.

  20. #1 on my wishlist if I used 10 by ihtoit · · Score: 2

    ...would be "Can we have a one-click solution to REMOVING CORTANA FOR GOOD if we don't actually want it?"

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  21. Re:But it's still Windows 10 by ihtoit · · Score: 2

    So much this. I was a bit pensive with Win7, but seeing the taskbar and quicklaunch integrated made it soooo slick... like what OSX has had since FOREVER... changed the theme to 2K and went full performance rather than choke my laptop up with pretties (I want my databases to respond YESTERDAY). I have a Beryl desktop on a Linux VM which is what I have going when I'm not doing the ironing with the machine. Kicks arse out of Aero.

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  22. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by ihtoit · · Score: 2

    much.

    http://www.techradar.com/news/...

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  23. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    telemetry is back-ported

    The backported telemetry is part of CEIP and you just need to keep that disabled. But to be sure you can simply uninstall or not install those telemetry updates in the first place.

    It's really not the same as using Windows 10, at all. Once (if) Windows 10 gets an off switch we can talk.

  24. It's Not THAT Bad... by WheezyJoe · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took the plunge and upgraded my last and more important PC this weekend, 'cause I don't want to be on the hook to pay $199 for a new Pro license when something forces me off 7.

    I swear I'm not a shill; I bitch regularly about Microsoft because my job forces me to bear with it. But I was pleasantly surprised how well the in-place upgrade went. Nothing broke, even my old copy of Office 2003 (from my cold, dead hands...) The only thing the upgrade removed without asking were a couple of 3d-party diagnostic utilities like speccy, which doesn't bother me in the slightest. Even Steam fired back up without a hitch.

    Now, about that ugliness. You don't have Aero transparency or rounded edges, but with Classic Shell and WinAero Tweeker, you can do a lot to make 10 more livable. A right-click on the taskbar can make Cortana go away, and ClassicShell separates Windows programs from Metro Apps in separate sub-menus, so you never have to look at them if you don't want to. Also, you do NOT have to use a Microsoft/Outlook cloud account. With this kind of setup, it's pretty much the same Windows as before.

    Finally, I haven't tried this yet, but there's Spybot Anti-Beacon to address the "phone-home" issues that might be nagging you.

    So, here's an idea to grab Windows 10 while its still free with the least risk. Shop for an SSD upgrade, like a 1TB Samsung Evo because damn it's gotten cheap. Clone your precious Windows 7/8/8.1 drive to the new SSD, remove it, set it aside. Then, perform an in-place upgrade as described here on the clone. Try it out. Something go wrong? Hate it? Swap back your old drive; clone again, do what you like. Your old build is safe and sound.

    But here's the thing: according to the article, you have effectively retrieved/reserved your free Windows 10 license to use... whenever. If you want to try again in a few months, you can take a blank SSD and download/build Windows 10 from scratch, Microsoft will recognize your PC signature (assuming you haven't changed you mobo) and license you (just skip the part where it asks for a key). In the mean time, however, your old Windows will still work for as long as you want to keep it.

    There. Assuming Microsoft doesn't wimp out and extend the deadline, you've just pocketed a $150-200 license for free to use any time you want.

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  25. Re:Unusually +ve but what's in it for refusniks? by citylivin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "If you couldn't justifying the technical improvements of Windows 10 over Windows 7 what made you think that a small service pack would change that?"

    People are still hoping that there will be one killer feature that will make it worthwhile to "upgrade". At work i have a surface so i have to use win10.
    Windows 10 features that I like are 1) better multi monitor support 2) better direct access VPN client 3) wireless display sharing is cool

    Other than that, I really don't see a need for anyone to upgrade. You have a boatload of crap to deal with over 7 and yes as time goes on, the problems with windows 10 keep adding up. As others have mentioned, windows 10 machines frequently get into a state where you have to blow away a user completely to fix it. Sometimes even the whole machine. Something gets corrupted in the microsoft store, and even if you don't use it, it can create negative effects everywhere.

    Patching in the corporate environment is a nightmare now, as each "patch" is actually a brand new operating system. I still haven't got things to go smooth between versions yet and expect another week of fighting before this new edition will image to workstations properly.

    i dont care so much about telemetry. The main problems I have are this rapid feature release cycle ( 2 major updates a year is far too fast), and its various ways that it screws up and requires time to be rebuilt. Another huge annoyance is that they got rid of the file settings and transfer wizard, which has been a godsend since XP in terms of giving people the exact same environment that they started out with before i came in and switched the computer, or the hdd or whatever. Now I have to say "unfortunately we cant copy your profile cleanly anymore, so you have to start fresh", then i have to hand copy bookmarks back in chrome, desktop items, etc. Real annoying and like everythign else bad about windows 10, i blame the new features for causing these sorts of problems: the store and cortana. They couldn't get file and transfer settings wizard working reliably with these new features, so they dropped it as opposed to fixing it.

    Oh and the number one reason i will never go to windows 10 on my home PC is the way in which it was pushed out. I lost all resepect for microsoft when they used windows update to deliver and trick people into installing windows 10. So I am morally opposed to installing it now because of the abuse of a great patch system that was windows update. Now it can no longer be trusted, and that is the real long term damage that they have done to their reputation. Abuse of their position.

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  26. so in summary... by JustNiz · · Score: 2

    ...just more lame shit copied from other OS's, but without exception all with a twist designed to further lock you into their ecosystem.
    I bet the Microsoft koolaid-drinkers will love it and think its crazy innovative though.

  27. Re:But it's still Windows 10 by iampiti · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I'd like that too and I guess technically ir'd be pretty easy but Ms won't do it because they want a single UI for everyone and every device.
    It royally annoys me when something is technically possible but is blocked by other reasons.
    I don't know how good it's for touch but for mouse and keyboard the new UI is mediocre, it's got too much whitespace. I also hate the new mobile-style default apps

  28. Re:But it's still Windows 10 by epyT-R · · Score: 2

    Except that he's actually correct.

  29. Re:The new Bob by tehlinux · · Score: 2

    Cortana is the new Bonzi Buddy.

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  30. Re:Why do we continue to get erroneous reporting? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    WINDOWS: 10
    Users: ZERO

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  31. Does Cygwin run on Win 10? by knorthern+knight · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://www.cygwin.com/

    > What is it?
    >
    > Cygwin is:
    >
    > a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
    >
    > a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality.

    No need to accept Microsoft's half-assed implementation. With Cygwin, you get the whole kit+kaboodle. bash and various other shells. X Window client and server, Firefox, mutt, sendmail, whatever. Even gcc, so you can build from source. And it's free. If the PHBs at work insist, you can buy support from Redhat, who publishes it.

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    I'm not repeating myself
    I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user