Windows 10 Anniversary Update Rollout May Not Be Done Until Early November (zdnet.com)

Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary Update last month. But the trickling of the company's latest major update users could take as much as three months, the company has said. Many users have been complaining about not seeing an update pop-up on their system. When ZDNet's reporter Mary Jo Foley asked Microsoft about this, the company confirmed that it hadn't seeded the update to all Windows 10 users. From the report: Microsoft began rolling out the latest version of Windows 10, the Anniversary Update, on August 2. At that time, Microsoft officials said the rollout would be staggered, but didn't get too explicit as to how -- or how long it might take the company to push Windows 10 Anniversary to consumers and business users who are on the so-called Current Branch of Windows 10. It's worth repeating that those who really want the Anniversary Update immediately have options to proactively go get it. I received a Microsoft blast email just over a week ago that included a footnote that mentioned it might take up to three months for Microsoft to push the Anniversary Update to those set up to get it. That means those currently waiting may still have another month and a half to wait.

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Lack of QA in Redmond?

[QuietLagoon]

Maybe Microsoft wants to roll it out slowly because it did not do enough QA on the release to assure it would be a smooth release cycle. So the early ones to get it are likely the real-world testers.

Re:Lack of QA in Redmond?

[Anonymous Coward]

its not untrue. there have been 4 additional patches already.

Re:Lack of QA in Redmond?

[Anonymous Coward]

More like NO QA in Redmond, they were all laid off. The SDLC concept for Windows 10 seems to be:

• * Insiders are the alpha testers, but at least they volunteered for that.
• * The general public are unwitting surveillance subjects and beta testers. Microsoft will Do The Needful to your computer whether you want it done or not. These mandatory patches can make your computer stop working, blue screen, lose data, or somehow fuck up previously perfectly working peripherals at any time. You can't decline a patch even if you know in advance it's going to fuck you up!
• * Only Enterprise users get the finished product and they have to pay through the teeth for that privilege. Whatever patches didn't fuck up millions of consumer PCs may eventually make their way here.

My take is, Windows 10 isn't ready for prime time at all. It may never be, because it's a constantly moving target. Unlike every prior edition of Windows, with 10 you can't lock-in a working system with known good drivers. You wake up one morning and suddenly your computer is broken because Microsoft decided to push an update, and there's no option to decline it, you're just fucked. Microsoft broke millions of peoples' webcams last month with a botched update and they still haven't fixed that. Meanwhile they're pushing more updates causing more new problems and more pain.

Add in the telemetry/spying and there's just no way. Windows 10 isn't worth it. The only winning move is not to play.

Rolled out first on modern hardware

[Anonymous Coward]

It was rolled out to newer systems with UEFI and Secureboot first. My new laptop got it day one.

If you use the media creation tool it will create a windows 10 ISO/DVD/USB drive with the anniversary update (Version 1607) already installed.

The big releases are pretty much a reinstall anyway - The entire OS get swapped out during the update. One of the reasons they are going these "big" releases is so you don't end up with the problem of previous windows versions - IE the latest official media (Win7 sp1, win 8 RTM, or win 8.1 RTM) All have 150+ updates or more after a clean install.In win7's case you end up downloading 2x more data than the original size of the win7 media itself.

Another problem with all those updates is you run in to platform constancy issues. After hundreds of updates something can go wrong, and you end up with situations like windows update being broken out of the box. Big releases are a periodic refresh that gets everything back to a reference point. Do that at least once a year and updates are easier to deal with.

Re:Ok, we have until November

[The-Ixian]

I run Linux on my personal laptop. Always have. My gaming rig runs Windows 10 and is perfectly fine; It runs like a top.

Operating systems are just tools, use whatever makes the most sense for the job.