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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to Arrive October 17 (thurrott.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft announced this morning that the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will be made available worldwide on October 17, in step with a new lineup of Windows Mixed Reality headsets that require this release. "We are coming up on our fourth major update to Windows 10, and our mission with these updates is to create a platform that inspires your creativity," Microsoft corporate vice president Terry Myerson says. "The next update of Windows 10, the Fall Creators Update, will be available worldwide October 17. With the Fall Creators Update, we are introducing some fun, new ways to get creative." The Fall Creators Update will upgrade Windows 10 to version 1709 and it brings a number of new features and improvements, especially to key experiences like gaming, security, and photos. But no new technology weighs as heavily on this update as Windows Mixed Reality, Microsoft's attempt to take virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) mainstream.
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All of these trendy new features are lovely, but if you aren't spendy enough to have the latest and greatest hardware (with, probably, alpha drivers that won't work 1/2 the time) you don't need it. So how about a Windows build that's segmented - only loads the features your hardware supports? After all, Windows knows everything about your computer (and arguably you) by now. If I don't have VR hardware, why do I need VR support? That could be added later if I ever get it, which will never happen with the desktop (and probably not the old laptop, and *definitely* not the cheapo tablet) anyway. The cheapo tablet, in particular, needs to have Windows that doesn't have unusable features.
I'll forward this on to people along with instructions on how to delay the update (since Microsoft says "no control for you!").
I'm still livid over their Anniversary update which hosed every single "Designed for Windows 10" Lenovo laptop we had.
Why are they screwing over corporate users with the constant updates and discontinuing support for older versions?
There are versions of Windows 10 that will no longer get security updates and we can't upgrade beyond those versions due to lack of hardware support (for reasons unknown).
MS needs to get their act together for their business customers.
Most of my friends use Window 10 (some computer literate, some not).
For the past couple of updates, when they were released, about half of them had showstopper issues.
There's a selection bias, of course -- my friends are probably not representative of the entire population, but a 50% failure rate in that group makes me suspect that the overall failure rate is rather higher than a small percentage.