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Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 major feature upgrade -- dubbed the Spring Creators Update -- will take around 30 minutes to install, unlike previous variants that took between one and two hours to complete. This boost in installation time is attributed to work engineers have done on the "Feature Update" process -- the name Microsoft uses to refer to its bi-annual major OS updates. Microsoft says that this Feature Update process actually consists of two separate phases -- the "online" and "offline" stages. During the "online" phase, the user's computer downloads the necessary update files and executes various operations in the OS' background without affecting the device's battery life or system performance.
Those are some amazing engineers. They developed a way to download data and run system operations without using any CPU or energy. Simply amazing.
But more important: How long will the rollback to a usable system take?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has so far managed to completely brick (no kidding!) 6 of my 9 computers (with genuine windows).
Only 3 of them has not received the unfixable* blue-screen-of-death when installing the Fall Creators Update.
(*Yes, unfixable, the update destroys the partition, and there's no way to get it back, you can fake-create it back, but the update then destroys is again, and again.)
I've had to roll back 3 of them to Windows 7, and 3 of them is still broken, since I haven't had the time yet to complete reinstall everything on them. I'm thinking "Linux", and throwing away my Windows licenses.
So... Now you're giving me "Spring Creators" you say?
Lovely.
I thought the flu season only happened once per year.
As a non-Windows user, I read this headline and assumed 30 minutes was a regression, not an improvement. Previous updates took 1-2 hours? What the hell are you doing with all that time? I can go from a blank hard drive to a fully up-to-date Linux installation with all my personal applications and configurations in place in 30 minutes. An update should be considerably faster than that, and certainly shouldn't take my machine out of commission for more than a minute or two.
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I had a machine I serviced that would not install the fall creator's update, with a non-specific error message.
I was both impressed and horrified to learn that that fall creators update would searched the *ENTIRE* hard drive for incompatible software. It was failing because it located an old copy of the Netware client Installer, in "C:\Old_Computer\Documents and Settings\User\Downloads\Novell". This software wasn't even installed on the computer; just present in that directory. The built-in updater failed w/ a general error, and the downloaded copy of the update claimed "You must uninstall this incompatible software", which, again, was not actually installed, just present on the hard drive.
Now I know *why* Windows takes forever to install updates :(
Why aren't you encrypting your e-mail?
> Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes
Whether you want it to or not.
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