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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
Like the old SP system but with build numbers only.
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?
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!
I've been through two major OS upgrades and even more minor ones since purchasing my Mac mini, none of which I paid for. Either you're misinformed or Apple just really likes me for some reason.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Linux has been seeing notable gains in the desktop in the form of Chrome OS.
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.
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?
trying to understand that summary, can we complain about fragmentation with the various distros of windows yet?
Just don't install anything with systemd
it is just as bad as having windows 10
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.
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.
"Millions of use Windows,"
So? Doesn't mean it's good, millions of people die every year, does that mean dying is good?
Win10 is 100% spyware, it completely ticks the necessary boxes for being spyware. So it's fair enough that people don't like it, people don't like spyware and they especially don't like the OS they use being spyware since it can spy on everything the user does. What is worst is Microsoft's dishonestly in not saying what metrics it collects, most of all those metrics it still collects even when all privacy settings have been set to maximum privacy.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Windows 10.1 is now out, with Windows 10.2 and Windows 10.3 expected next year...
What's in a name?
I still think they should have called it Windows X, and started designated the major releases using names of various rodents. Windows X Hamster, Windows X Squirrel, Windows X Guinea Pig, etc
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Win32 direct to the user is the issue from the distant past that can soon be fixed.
Stability will be enforced when all apps are developed via and can only be signed for from a big bright new Shopping gui.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I'm torn, myself---trying to decide whether "Pharoah of Fail" or perhaps "Dauphin of Fail" sounds better.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I was really interested in your comment, but you seem to have a word....
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Why is Debian in that list? Also--Redhat and Fedora, but not CentOS?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I don't use Windows at all, and I'm still interested in what MS are doing/saying. They're, you know, a major player in the industry and stuff.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Or alternatively, they can go the movie/game reboot route and call it just Windows, without any indication of the version of the system in the name.
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you will keep Windows and and believe whatever they want you to believe. You take the red pill -- you will format your HD and I show you how to install Linux.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
> 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...
windows isn't done until linux doesn't run.
Apple still CHARGES you for those updates every year where MS you get them for free.
It's early days for Win10, which MS has told us is the last ever Windows. We have yet to see if MS gives free updates in the longer term. I very much suspect you will need to sign up to rental for that, sooner or later.
I still think they should have .... designated the major releases using names of various rodents. Windows X Hamster, Windows X Squirrel, Windows X Guinea Pig, etc
Windows 10 Rat
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.
Now to truly mock the end user, they expect you to pay for that probe, seriously. Invade your privacy at your cost, not just the software but also computer processing time and network bandwidth, charging you to invade your privacy.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
Two PowerShell commands = no more Metro apps at all. Unfortunately, it takes more precision to avoid removing the calculator app, but if you can live without it, removing everything is indeed possible.
As for Cortana, my procedure to shut her up is to go to task manager, right click the Cortana process, click "open file location", go up a level in the file system...and deny all file permissions to the system accounts to the entire folder. The system can't access the file, so no respawning process.
...and, you helped make the parent poster's point by posting nothing of value.
I don't respond to AC's.
Pot Kettle Black.
Since when did slashdot posts have value?
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Wrong, you only install Linux and tell it to overwrite what's there. FORMAT C: is totally redundant.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Mountain Lion(2012): US$19.99
Lion (2011): US$29.99
Snow Leopard (2009): US$29.99
Leopard (2007): US$129
So almost ten years ago it was almost accurate.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I did the Anniversary update on one of my desktops that dual-boots to Fedora, and it did not mess up the linux partitions. What it does, however, is set itself as default boot option instead of grub, but that's easily fixed with an one-line command.
What about: "Windows will not start. We have detected that your use of Microsoft Windows is too limited. This may be because you only use a specific Microsoft Windows application, or only certain types of applications such as games. A normal user of Microsoft Windows uses a number of applications including a web browser. To reinstate your Microsoft Windows License you must link your activities using third party software with your Microsoft Customer Profile. If you have used a linux system to circumvent your Microsoft Profile, Microsoft has prepared special software to collect the missing information from your third party system. Click here for more information"
Good thing Android has no telemetry or any affiliation with advertising at all! You can trust them
http://saveie6.com/
+1
"UWP first step towards "locking down the consumer PC ecosystem," (3/5/2016) (Universal Windows Platform)
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Insects work better.
Windows X Aphid
Windows X Flea
Windows X Gnat
Windows X Mosquito
Windows X Termite
Windows X Cockroach