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Microsoft's Last 'Bug Bash' Before Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson quotes BetaNews:
With the launch of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Build 16237 to the Fast Ring yesterday, Microsoft wheeled in numerous fixes and new features. At the same time, the company also announced that the second Bug Bash for the next big update to Windows 10 is about to take place. This is the last Bug Bash that will take place before the release of the final version of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and it will see an intense period of testing with the help of Windows Insiders. Things kick off on Friday, July 14 and continue for more than a week.
Of course, the whole idea of the insider program is to help Microsoft to home in on bugs and get them fixed before software is released to the masses, but the Bug Bash steps things up a notch. Participants will be asked to take part in quests to check specific elements of the operating system as Microsoft draws closer to pushing out this latest feature update.
This build includes "read out loud" functionality for PDFs, support for emoji 5.0 -- and now when you relaunch Edge after it crashes, your tabs will be restored automatically.
Of course, the whole idea of the insider program is to help Microsoft to home in on bugs and get them fixed before software is released to the masses, but the Bug Bash steps things up a notch. Participants will be asked to take part in quests to check specific elements of the operating system as Microsoft draws closer to pushing out this latest feature update.
This build includes "read out loud" functionality for PDFs, support for emoji 5.0 -- and now when you relaunch Edge after it crashes, your tabs will be restored automatically.
out the door. We recently missed two that probably could have been prevented with better reporting tools for the build team, but we fired everyone good on that team. We only have contractors left.
Bash it good!
Ketchup: mashed?
Spy!
Modern app appers have app apps!
Apps!
The Bestest Windows Evar!
As they all are, for so says redmond, Every. Single. Time.
So what sweet new tools do "Creators" get this time around? IIRC in the last "Creators" update they got a couple new gadgets in MS Paint. It'll be hard to ever top that, imo.
If your browser crashes for any reason then the developers have the wrong priorities. (Not just applicable to Microsoft)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
To Micro$haft, features are bugs and vice versa...to them there is no difference! If they ad anything to the Win10 Spy-Virus, it will be more ways for it to spy on users and phone home!
Is it just me or does this read more like an advertorial than a traditional ./ post?
Windows File Explorer STILL, after DECADES, cannot handle files with long paths THAT IT ITSELF CREATES.
And no, that flag they added to support long file paths did NOT fix File Explorer.
BEcause Fiel Explorer does NOT use it !!!
Microsoft should stop throwing in new crap until they fix their old crap.
Lame. Also, Sanjay Nutella is no Ballmer.
Bugger off already
To Microsoft fanboys all bugs are either due to a misbehaving third party driver or user error. That's why MS doesn't need QA.
In all honesty it usually takes me a few seconds to remember what Edge is too.
Anyway, all the good browsers have had this feature for years and years. The real news is that apparently IE didn't.
"This build includes "read out loud" functionality for PDFs"
Which has already been in 3rd party software for --- how long now?
"support for emoji 5.0"
Now there's a real killer feature that will increase productivity a thousandfold!
"and now when you relaunch Edge after it crashes, your tabs will be restored automatically"
That's awesome! But ... um ... how about fixing Edge so it, you know, doesn't crash? By way of comparison, I can't even remember when Chrome has ever crashed on me.
I fixed the Windows 10 source code, it's now very compact!
#include
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
printf ("Windows 10 is done!, this is the most secure Windows ever!");
return 0;
}
Can Microsoft please PLEASE fucking fix PIN Number caching finally!? Yubikeys are fucking worthless ever since a March Windows Update broke them. It has been a serious pain in the ass on Windows 10 machines to have to RDP into a Win7 machine just to be able to authenticate with servers, Git, and SSH in general. https://forum.yubico.com/viewt...
Old tower, Gen1 i5 laptop, little cheap tablet - all have Win10 and work OK - in 1607. None have been offered the original CU (1703) yet. So will I just skip it and go for the fall release?
The undiscovered bugs can always be fixed in the Windows Fall Creator Anniversary Blue Imagine S update. The fuck is wrong with versioning things the old-fashioned way? I can't even recall if Windows Anniversary was 10.1 or 10.2, and I worked on Windows 10 when I was at Microsoft.
Why in the world would you want to spend you time doing free bug testing for a for-profit company that doesn't have your best interests in mind anyway?
I would rather put in my time fixing free software; at least I get something for my time there -- a good feeling of having contributed something to a worthwhile cause, not someone else's profit margin.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
Microsoft Windows is more dangerous than viruses
It reboots right in the middle of your important work with no way to stop it
Well, you have to disable windows update.
But then you don't even get notifications
They did it so wrong.
Please stop adding more code. When ever you fix one vulnerability you seem to add two more through your feature hysteria. 70% of the Windows OS code should NOT even be there. It is pure bloat and feature creep, not OS functionality
!
Personally I have yet to see a new OS release that doesn't have bugs. What bugs me (pardon the pun) is that at least twice a year I have to endure these bugs just so Microsoft can brag about incremental features and updates that mean little to me. I used to get this with Mac OS but of course the frequency was much less and I was not forced to accept the updates.
I wonder if Microsoft will finally fix all the massive UI shortcomings in W10. Get a real start menu back so that we do not have to fix it using 3rd party tools. End the split personality of system settings. Give us access to all system settings. Give more feedback now that they eliminated Save buttons. As important is improving the dismal hardware support. I have several not that old devices and cards that do not have any hardware support under Win 10. What am I supposed to do? Throw perfectly good hardware in the trash?
Windows File Explorer never worked right. I use it for everything though, so I should know!
For the first time ever, I've stopped looking forward to a Windows upgrade. Windows 8 would have been fine had they just changed the kernel and the Window logo, and the only thing I looked forward to there was better memory optimization & stability. Windows 10 - I preferred the UI fix, which is far better than Windows 8, particularly w/ ClassicShell. But other than that, I'm done w/ Windows, so they can take as long as HURD on their next upgrade, don't really care.
The day Windows goes to a subscription model, I'll switch to Apple. Yeah, it'll bite in the wallet, but I'm already somewhat used to iOS, having had an iPhone, iPad & iPod.
"Bug Bash"?
Another proof that Microsoft is evil:
In Microsoft, they bash those poor bugs
whereas open source developers fix them.
See the difference?
How about letting us turn of the spying/telemetry and telling us what's in these updates? Why be so scummy about it?