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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.
Sounds fair and balanced to me.
Good god, how I dread these things. They always cost me time and hassle.
I want to be able to find the damn scroll bars. Either improve the colors, let me choose a classic theme, or otherwise give me some ability of get rid of the flat interface disaster. That is my requested feature.
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.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Go to Settings -> Update & security -> Advanced options and turn on Pause Updates.
This will give Microsoft some time to fix those "oopsies" they missed in the first few month after release before they force me to update. Its only giving me a little over a month buffer this time, as opposed to a few months with the Creators Update, but it may save me some grief on my work PC.