Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (windows.com)

Microsoft has started to roll out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, aka, "Redstone 3" to the general public. The company has been testing this new major update to its desktop operating system for over six months. Much like the previous major updates to Windows 10, the Fall Creators Update is also free to Windows 10 users. Some of the remarkable new features the company is shipping with Fall Creators Update include a major design tweak called Fluent Design System. The design changes, CNET writes, are "subtle, like motion and blur effects, along with the changes to the way windows appear." Also in the offering are support for mixed reality, improvements to Photos app, and OneDrive on-demand files -- a feature that many users have long requested. You can read more about these new features and improvements here.

Comments

Already?

[JohnFen]

Good god, how I dread these things. They always cost me time and hassle.

Re: Already?

[JohnFen]

Do you consider it a hassle when Ubuntu wants to reboot to install a new kernel?

I wasn't commenting on the rebooting. But now that you bring it up, no, I don't consider it a hassle if Linux wants to reboot, because I get to choose exactly when that happens. It's also very rare.

Oh great

[DontBeAMoran]

The design changes, CNET writes, are "subtle, like motion and blur effects, along with the changes to the way windows appear."

So now we need even better GPUs just to make sure those stupid effects don't waste even more time.

Anyone know how to disable the stupid "here's all your windows, click on one" effect and return ALT-TAB to the way it has worked for decades?

So remote desktop is going to be even more painful

[Anonymous Coward]

"motion and blur effects" Please no. We have shared ISDN in our office since Comcast is almost two years late on their promised install, so this is going to make life suck even more. Hopefully it won't be hard to script to disable. We've already invested about two man-weeks in tweaks to Windows to try to make remote desktop less slow.

Re: not this shit again.

[Anonymous Coward]

Pro doesn't let you opt out. Only Enterprise or LTSB both of which can only be bulk licensed :(

Re:not this shit again.

[Dutch Gun]

Product decisions like this are the reason MS will eventually lose the desktop OS market.

How many decades is "eventually"? Windows 8 was probably the best chance ever for Linux to capture more of the desktop market, and it barely shifted - the only thing that happened is that Windows 7 users declined to upgrade.

Even as someone who primarily uses Windows, I desperately wish Microsoft had more competition. Companies become arrogant and complacent when they have no competition. Windows 8 was a beautiful example of that arrogance and tone-deaf attitude on display, and I feel some of the more consumer-unfriendly decisions in Windows 10 wouldn't have occurred if Microsoft felt *any* threat from macOS or Linux in the desktop space.

Much like the previous major updates to Windows 10

[smooth wombat]

the software will become even less useful as Microsoft hides regularly used features such as Control Panel.

Instead of being able to go directly to what you want you'll have to spend time searching. It's as if the developers have never been to a brick and mortar store in their life. When buying eggs, does one walk around the entire store looking for them, or do you go straight to the refrigerated section?

Clippy lives on, albeit in another form.

On the other hand...

[jbmartin6]

Controlled Folder Access is a great feature, and long overdue.