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Microsoft To Release Two Major Windows 10 Updates Next Year (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, aka Windows 10 version 1607, released earlier this week, it's time to look forward to what's next. Windows 10 has multiple release tracks to address the needs of its various customer types. The mainstream consumer release, the one that received the Anniversary Update on Tuesday, is dubbed the Current Branch (CB). The Current Branch for Business (CBB) trails the CB by several months, giving it greater time to bed in and receive another few rounds of bug fixing. Currently the CBB is using last year's November Update, version 1511. In about four months, Microsoft plans to bump CBB up to version 1607, putting both CB and CBB on the same major version. [The Long Term Servicing Branch, an Enterprise-only version that will receive security and critical issue support for 10 years, will also be updated.] Going forward, however, the differences between both current branch variants (CB and CBB) and LTSB will become more marked. Microsoft is not planning another major update this year. There will be no equivalent to last year's 1511 release, but Microsoft will have two next year. These are believed to be codenamed Redstone 2 (rs2) and Redstone 3 (rs3), with this week's 1607 release being Redstone 1 (rs1). Current expectation is that rs2 will have a heavy mobile focus and be shipped simultaneously with new Surface branded hardware.
it might be with you
Windows 10.1 is now out, with Windows 10.2 and Windows 10.3 expected next year...
What's in a name?
is it still wiping random partitions during update?
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
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Now I'm reading that there will be two updates in 2017.
What other Windows 10 disappointments are on the horizon?
And Microsoft plans to charge a monthly fee for this?
is control, real control over the OS, that's it!
If MS keeps "telemetry", I see BSD/Android in the future...
*PS No, Linux can't be seen in the future...sorry, political agendas and all that crap...
That summary said absolutely nothing! What the fuck is the matter with you people?! This is just so sad! Garbage garbage garbage! Nothing but garbage. Not a single technical detail anywhere to be seen. Just advertising. What shit!
Why do people even bother posting Windows/Microsoft stuff on Slashdot any more? The comments are always a useless shit-storm. Millions of use Windows, it is sad that we have to elsewhere to actually find useful discussion.
It's still marked as a beta right now. Hope they push hard and get into general availability this year. It's useful. Running unmodified console mode apps from the Ubuntu user space is a useful thing.
and the new tracking software, if there's one thing I don't get enough of it's Ads! Hopefully they'll just put them on the desktop background and remove the problems of too much choice Windows users have when setting desktop backgrounds.
One for each orifice. (female users will be addressed in a separate update)
Windows 10 has multiple release tracks to address the needs of its various customer types
My needs are A) be stable (bzzzt!); and B) don't spy on me (bzzzt! bzzzt! bzzzt!)
exactly what I don't need.
I held off of upgrading to W10 with the expectation that they would fix the weird parts of the UI, and do something about the intrusive behavior of the OS, forced updates, and so on.
It seems the next time I install an OS for my desktop, it will have to be W7 again, or Linux.
I am sick and tired of the Microsoft propaganda that gets published here on a regular basis. Anybody know it is possible to set a filter to eliminate such stories from every showing up when accessing Slashdot?
I wonder if not opening the subject might work for you?
1 distrowatch.com and download any linux besides debian, ubuntu, redhat, and fedora
2 format c:\
done.
trying to understand that summary, can we complain about fragmentation with the various distros of windows yet?
This story is nothing but SPAM, nobody is interested in MS propaganda, and slashdot just became their mouthpiece..
Please stop or your some of your audience will leave.
"we can charge them for the damages on our systems instead."
Interesting idea. Microsoft should pay for all damage.
Aside the privacy-invading features of Windows 10, what positively peeves me off and is actually the main reason I will never use Windows 10, is that it reboots immediately as an update is installed/about to be installed, without any possibility for the user to control this event. Sorry, but I actually do some productive work with my computer, I cannot risk a reboot in the middle of my work.
Hence I have a host of Windows 7 laptops and desktops stashed away.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
'Blue Pill' empowers your life with the power of Azure. Microsoft agents like Clip...er, Cortana now use technologies like UEFI Secure Boot and the Microsoft Store to guide you and protect you from hacking. You can purchase the ID 'Master chief john 117' as your local PC username (additional fee applies). You can also partake of selected offers from select Microsoft partners presented at select times in your daily workflow (for instance, when Cortana detects you starting blankly at the primary screen. After all, human attention is a terrible thing to waste.)
'Red Pill' awakens you to the horrible reality -- you've been lying comatose in a Microsoft pod all along; your 'reality' a hallucination crafted on Microsoft servers....
Hahah! Just kidding - the red pill does no such thing -- its just the blue pill painted red.
TFA mentions Current Branch and Current Branch for Business, without explaining them too much. I doubt that many folks here are aware of them and the differences, so...
If you're on CB, you get major feature updates (e.g. the Anniversary Edition) pushed to you as soon as it's made generally available. Folks on CBB will still get those updates pushed to them, but a while later (MS says around four months delay), and with all the fixes made in that time.
Now, if you have the Pro or Enterprise editions (sorry Home users, you guys are stuck on CB only), you can quite easily switch between the two by means of checking (or unchecking) the "Defer upgrades" option that's somewhere in the Windows Update options. Want to live on MS's cutting edge? Leave it off. Want to use those Home peasants as your beta testers? Switch it on.
Then, there's the LTSB edition of Enterprise, which is basically RTM that just receives security patches and the like (MS will make newer versions available -- I believe there's a 2016 update to LTSB coming later this year -- but, as far as I'm aware, there's no obligation to upgrade to a newer LTSB version, and MS claims that they'll support each version for ~10 years anyway). Because MS doesn't want too many things in this edition to change, things like Edge, Cortana and the Windows Store are stripped out of it. MS's intended usage scenarios for this edition are things like POS machines and the like.
You can actually compare this to Ubuntu upgrades. If you're on CB, you're like the Ubuntu user who upgrades between point releases as soon as the new one becomes available. If you're on CBB, you're like the Ubuntu user who upgrades between point releases as soon as the old one is about to become unsupported. If you're on LTSB, then you're the Ubuntu user who only ever uses the LTS releases.
If you run Windows 10 you no longer have any control over your computer. It is no longer yours. It's now just another node in the Microsoft Botnet.
Programs that cannot be uninstalled. Services that cannot be switched off (or uninstalled). Telemetry that cannot be stopped. BIOS code that tells you what you can load. Cortana that listens to *everything*, and reports *everything*, back to the hive.
"But I can block it at my router/hosts file". Yeah right. And the next forced update installs another new way of returning the data using another channel.. Try blocking port 80 and see how much fun you can have. No reason all data can't be returned using bog standard HTTP POST/GET.
"But program X switches the spying off". Yeah right. Of course it does. And the next forced update bypasses program X's defences entirely or silently patches it to neuter it but leaves it in place to allow you the illusion of control.
If you run Windows 10 "your" computer is now a wholly owned node in the Microsoft botnet. *NO EXCEPTIONS* No fucking arguments..
The only update Microsoft will give you is (if they're in a good mood) is some lube for your wholly owned anus.
If you're running Windows 10 you are a totally willing, utterly submissive, little slave chained to the wall in the MS dungeon crying out for "Daddy" to "Please use some lube tie time".
Windows 10 "users" = Fucking loser faggots.
You are the sort of people who probably helped build the gas chambers because "it was the only work going and my family needed the money". "I din;t pull the lever's myself"...
> A few shills a.k.a. reviewers will manage to find 4 or 5 irrelevant points to discuss for 2 pages, touting them as upgrades.
The poor wretch has to make a living. Batting his eyelids and wiggling his big fat butt at Microsoft puts food on his table. http://www.extremetech.com/com... http://www.zdnet.com/article/i...
I just got tired of being a beta tester in Windows 10. Seems they just get stuff worked out and along comes another update. More fixes, and more glitches. I finally got fed up and installed Linux. The last straw with Windows 10 came after the Anniversary update deleted my printer, restored default settings, and signed me out of Chrome browser. It also turned back on all live tiles, and restored Edge and Store icon's to taskbar. It seems Microsoft does not respect the user any more.
Not to mention the updates totally come at the wrong times and you have no options but to accept them. I would advise any user who still has Windows 7 to stick with it as long as you can.
I think Windows 10 is a wonderful and amazing piece of software from Microsoft. It single-handedly unequivocally convinced me to switch everything to Linux and for it I will always be eternally grateful to Microsoft and the most amazing/repellent piece of software ever created! I hope that everybody finds Windows 10 an equally gratifying first-class experience! Thank you Microsoft!
# scrub -fS -p fillzero /dev/sda /dev/sda /dev/sda1
# fdisk
# mkfs.jfs
And install *nix on it.
^D
I am sick and tired of the Microsoft propaganda that gets published here
Was TFA propaganda? Sorry, I hadn't realised. TFA left me cold, I assumed it was just factual. I didn't rush off to install Windows, sorry.
It still astounds me the number of folks that love the windows... let's see what they get:
forced updates - whether you want them or not and, more importantly, even if they break stuff
telemetry that reports your activity and you can't control it (not really)
a user interface that sucks big time and you can't easily revert to something useful (like the Win2K interface)
and while they haven't started yet you can bet that sooner or later we'll see MS finding a way to charge folks, but only after they have hooked all the gullible first. ...now let's hear from the fanboys, I'm sure you'll tell me how I have it all wrong.
Treadstone did he say? Sounds ominous.