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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the like-it-or-hate-it,-you-can't-ignore-it dept.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update is now rolling out, Microsoft announced Tuesday. The major update brings with it Windows Ink, a dedicated hub designed especially for 2-in-1 devices with styluses, and improvements to Cortana among others. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley writes: I'm hearing that the first users to get Anniversary Update via Windows Update will be those with the newest hardware, BIOSes and firmware. Those who may encounter compatibility issues because of drivers may get it slightly later through Windows Update, my contacts say. Microsoft actually delivered some of the Anniversary Update features for Xbox One on July 30. On August 1, Microsoft made Windows 10 Anniversary Update available to its volume licensees in the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. It also made the Anniversary Update code available to its reseller partners via its Partner Portal yesterday. MSDN users can get the Anniversary Update bits today. Microsoft officials said a week ago to expect Microsoft to make Anniversary Update ISOs available today, August 2. The Media Creation Tool seems to now be updated to include the Anniversary Update release.We asked readers last week whether they would update their computers to Windows 10, and the majority of people indicated they wouldn't.

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  1. Daily winspam by arth1 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We asked readers last week whether they would update their computers to Windows 10, and the majority of people indicated they wouldn't.

    What you should have asked was whether we want more Windows 10 stories.

  2. windows 10 windows 10 windows 10 windows 10 by tomxor · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Let me summarise:

    Microsoft: Windows 10, WinDows 10! Windows 10!!!!!! WwInDows 10!!!!11! WIIINNDDOOOOWWWWSSS

    Slashdot User: FUCK OFF!

  3. Please stop by El+Cubano · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look, I know that I can filter stories, but the fact is I don't mind the occasional story about Microsoft. Like it or not, they are an integral piece of the tech space and what they do is important to nerds. However, I do object to the constant promotion/bashing/click-baiting with the nearly daily (sometimes multiple times daily) Windows 10 stories. Please either ease up or add a Windows 10 story tag (and then apply it to all Windows 10 stories) so that they can be filtered out specifically.

    1. Re:Please stop by RubberDogBone · · Score: 2, Insightful

      A friend of mine does consulting work for software companies, often involving Microsoft products. He has shelves full of the software at home. A lot of his friends, myself included, are more into alternate OSs and homebrew and other similar things. We used to rib this guy for working so closely with Microsoft. But he shut us all down with one simple comment: He's made a LOT of money working with those products. Bought two houses, supported three kids and ex-wife and managed to acquire a mid-life crisis convertible car and a much younger new wife.

      And he asked us, collectively, which was like five people at that moment, how much we had made off FOSS and AmigaOS and whatever. And the answer is, one guy works as a package handler at UPS, one works for Subway, one can't keep any job and the last guy still lives with his mom. So it's hard to say who has it best here. All are happy. But one of us has leveraged Microsoft to make a living.

      It changed how I felt about the company. I keep hearing his words "Hey Microsoft has helped me make a LOT of money!" echo in my head.

      --
      Sig for hire.
  4. Re:Declutter an OEM install by fizzer06 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Download and install Linux Mint 18. Done.

  5. CAN you even refuse it? by Miamicanes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait... CAN you even REFUSE the anniversary update if you have non-Enterprise-licensed Windows?

    I was under the impression that 10 Home & 10 Pro users could -- at best -- defer it for ever-decreasing amounts of time, until it eventually loses patience, installs it anyway, then informs you after the fact that a reboot has been scheduled for tomorrow whether you like it or not. Or the "install and reboot in 10 minutes" countdown appears while you're getting lunch, or you accidentally click the wrong square millimeter of the screen while distracted by something else, like whatever you're working on instead of satisfying Windows' demands.