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The Windows 10 Creators Update Is Now Available (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft will officially release Windows 10 Creators Update on April 11, the same day it will retire Windows Vista, but users unwilling to wait that long can install it starting today, April 5, using the Windows 10 Update Assistant. The tool installs Build 15063 of the Windows 10 Insiders Build program, which is set to become the official Windows 10 Creators Update next week. The Windows 10 Update Assistant, which Microsoft first launched to help users update to Windows 10, has been recently used to upgrade users to the most recent version of Windows 10. The tool is available for download via the Microsoft site, albeit some users reported still getting an older version for download, which doesn't install the Creators Update. The Update Assistant is extremely easy to use and only requires users to click a few buttons.
right after I beat myself in the head with a ball peen hammer
I installed 15063 Enterprise four days ago! Got it from Microsoft. It took a while to figure out how to disable and remove Cortana; you have to boot safe mode with no services and rename the directory, but it was done! I find nothing compelling about Windows 10 Creator, except how difficult MS made it to remove all the spyware and telemetry. Not at all like removing the junk from Windows 10 Anniversary, but still doable. On the other hand, with nothing but fluff, it might be said that if you are not bound to Microsoft products like Visual Studio, or the Office suite, then Windows 10 Creators Edition is a compelling reason to migrate to your flavor of Linux or BSD. Fortunately I run everything in a virtual machine.
Windows 10 - you cannot even give that shit away for free. -fuck MS.
if c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\StateRepository-Machine.srd is still there and can be edited with sqlite cortana should be removable with appx as long as you set IsInbox to 0.
Does it perform better in gaming? That's the only reason why I own a Windows 10 PC.
Is this microsoft's personalized OS for God?
Truly this is news for nerds.
Wow! Slashdot now has special formatting for LUDDITE !
what in the heck is the Creators Update? I've seen that phrase maybe a hundred times, but not once have I seen it explained.
If the universe is running on Windows, that would explain a hell of a lot. Trump would be like a blue screen for Earth.
I think this is the big divide between Microsoft and Slashdot. Microsoft thinks that "only requires users to click a few buttons" is a positive thing. Slashdot thinks "please give me more control since this is my machine".
With only a "few buttons" this means it will use the defaults more often, which generally in Microsoft's case is a bad idea. Remember that this is the company that allowed executing attachments arriving in email as the default action, and the company that thought upgrading to Windows 10 without asking first was a good default. Windows has been a long tortured history of removing user choice; each release making it harder to customize.
So when are they releasing the Destroyer's update, the update for the rest of us?
This shit has me dying. at first I thought it was stupid as hell. But theyre getting more creative with it now and im kindof stoned but every time i see it i find the humor in it as a nerd should.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-g...
The files show modified on March 18, 2017 with version numbers 10.0.15063.0. So yeah, looks to be the real deal.
Life is not for the lazy.
Funny thing about that Enterprise subscription, it has been available to the everyday plain-vanilla user for about a year. The everyday user can subscribe to Windows Enterprise from the Microsoft Partners. The requirements and costs vary per Partner, but I have seen Enterprise subscriptions for as little as $10/month.
When will it hit WSUS?
The only thing in this update that I'm at all interested in is the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I'm kind of stuck with Windows on my work laptop and it's not terribly easy to do web development in any CMS that uses a LAMP stack. If the WSL works well enough it could replicate the Linux experience and make it less of a hassle. It also has Ubuntu 16.0.4 so that's a decent upgrade. I'm going to try it out on my one Win10 desktop at home to see if it'll run all the tools I need.
(But I'll still probably end up using my Linux desktop at home because it just works.)
...can I retire Windows Vista now?
You sir, are a fool. It is said that a wise man learns from his mistakes. That is a fool. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. What did I break? Nothing. Not even search because I use Classic Shell for a navigable menu rather than the jive that MS give us now. What did I use to actually do the job? A Wim tweak. What else did I do? Quite a bit: removed edge, feedback, contact support, telemetry, connect, all of the xbox stuff, all of the installed apps excluding store and calculator. Error messages in the logs? None. So please, save the Microsoft line. Many of us do not buy that line and want a hardened system - including against Microsoft and whoever they choose to share your data with without your permission, and in the case of government, without your knowledge. BTW: Most of the stuff in W10 is simply a wrapper from W7. I have unwrapped enough of those shells to make that claim. More importantly, you missed that I mentioned a virtual machine. Mistakes are easily corrected. Learn from the mistakes of others and be a wise man!
Seriously, Adobe runs PERFECTLY on MacOS you numptie! It's actually a pleasure to use (unlike it's windows counterpart, now with the added windows 10 distractions)
Simply dump anything that requires windows and find alternatives (and most are better, without the bloat). You'll thank me later.
There is life outside of windows, and it's quite good.
Oh, I forgot one thing you ought think about: Microsoft now has a version of W10 for Chinese consumption. It is missing most of the tracking and spying stuff. I have a copy of that too. If MS can provide a version for the Chinese market that is accepted by the Chinese government that lacks most of this stuff, then why is it needed at all for the US market?
Yeah, let's randomly disable services and delete folders from a production operating system, great idea.
I thought we were talking about Windows here?
Indeed.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
For that amount of effort you could just fucking run Linux.
Pray tell, what make you think I do not run Linux? Kali to be exact, I have run Debian proper, CentOS, and Slackware in the past. While each OS has its strengths and weaknesses, Windows has the applications that are most frequently run everyday. I am not a fanboi of any OS; I use each for its strengths.
So people are expected to pay extra for MS not to screw them up by forced updates and to get some control to the spyware running on their own computers?
Microsoft is giving people a choice of how to pay for continued maintenance of Windows: either through payment or through analytics that Microsoft can use to boost relevance of ads presented to the user. Thus a user can choose to be a customer or to be the product. Several other service providers don't even give users this choice.
And $10/month isn't that much more than, say, Apple charges for the Apple Developer Program.
It also has Beam streaming built in, if you like to broadcast your play.
What limits has Microsoft placed on Beam to appease Hollywood studios who would complain that the user can stream, say, a movie playing in a browser? And can game publishers trigger these limits if they don't want their copyrighted games performed publicly without a license? Capcom, for one, has been known to require royalties for streaming Street Fighter matches (source).
install that update and none of your Windows programs will work anymore
sudo apt install wine and most still work. I use Xubuntu 16.04, and the Windows applications on which I depend (Modplug Tracker, FamiTracker, FCEUX debugging version, and NO$SNS) still work.
You'll probably lose all of your data too.
In the era of affordable USB hard drives and "cloud" backup, both Microsoft and its competition have begun to consider loss of data on a single device as acceptable collateral damage. Case in point from Microsoft's competition: When you switch a Chromebook from normal mode to developer mode or vice versa, the firmware performs a factory reset, deleting all user data stored on the device. And it's incredibly easy for someone else who turns on a developer mode Chromebook to begin a factory reset by pressing two keys without understanding: press Space to reenable OS verification, press Enter to confirm.
Those are macOS 10.12, Android 7, and Debian 8 respectively. In addition, both Android and Ubuntu version codenames progress through the Latin alphabet regularly.
The complaint as I understand it is that Microsoft is no longer assigning traditional minor version numbers for Windows, instead relying on less scrutable build numbers. Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 got "Service Pack x", which users could compare, and Windows 8 had "8.1", which users understood as the first service pack. Windows 10 build numbers increase monotonically, but because they're not sequential, it's hard to tell whether someone has skipped an update.
It's amazing. I haven't been to this website in YEARS. I saw a link to this story on Twitter, clicked on it... and I'm right in the middle of a "Why would you use Windows when you can use Linux" argument from 2002. Did I go through a wormhole or has nothing changed here in a decade and a half?