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Microsoft Readies Windows 10 April Update With New Features and Enhancements (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Microsoft has been preparing a Spring Creators Update for Windows 10 for a while now, which was recently pushed out as an RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build to all rings of the Windows Insider program. Now dubbed the "Windows 10 April Update," Redmond is billing that "lots of new features" are rolling out with this release, including the ability to resume past activities in timeline and a file sharing feature with nearby devices. Also, based on what has been tested in pre-release builds, there will be other features coming as well, including a rebuilt Game Bar with a new Fluent design UI, a diagnostic data viewing tool in the Security and Privacy section, and Cortana is reportedly easier to use with a new Organizer interface and My Skills tab. It is expected Microsoft will be pushing out this update for Windows 10 this week sometime.
More ways to exfiltrate your personal data!
More ways to collect personal data!
More ways to get you to pay for bandwidth for the above
More ways to lose control over your hardware
More telemetry!
More spyware!
More malware!
Will windows search finally work?!?!?! I mean, the answer is obviously no, but its fun to poke at Microsoft. find / funny!
I must know what the build number is to satisfy my thirst for BUILD NUMBERZZZ
My favorite new feature is that it no longer gives you the Blue Screen offffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Make it stop!
I'm glad they're deviating away from northern hemisphere naming. It's autumn here in Australia.
And they're notifying that you'll only be offline for 30 minutes while upgrading to this release instead of 51 minutes. They must really think their customers are brainwashed if they expect anyone to cheer over this.
Resetting your default apps to Microsoft's!
From what I've seen, most people just use Windows to open a web-browser or play games. I haven't seen anyone actually using any of the new Windows 10 - specific "features" Microsoft has brought with the OS, including myself.
100% more Clippy
... for the masses? Like really, how many more MS billionaires do we need? On the other hand, we do really need more affordable computers for the part of the world that isn't overly-affluent. Just saying. Oh ya, I forgot, nobody cares about the people, especially multinational and despotic monopolistic soulless corporations.
I was just forced to reinstall windows after the last update bricked the PC. Apparently my "Administrator" decided that I can't update settings on my PC, and that I must have a password to open my computer. It now gives me the kind option of paying to switch to Enterprise to use the functionality that's been standard.
For the Warning. Much obliged.
All I want is a reliable and secure OS
Who gives a shit, what we're looking for is an easier to deactivate Cortana (among other things that are suspiciously hard to get rid of).
Until Windows 10, we were forced to reinstall Windows when buying a new computer to get rid of the damn bloatware, with Win10 this doesn't work anymore because Windows itself comes with enough bullshit you can hardly get rid of that it makes the crap those Laptop peddlers stuffed into your "new" system pale in comparison.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We're taking your bets on the percentage of systems that will be bricked this time.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Someone at Microsoft authorized this. Who are they? Does anyone know? Out the fuckers.
Give it up man, Ubuntu or Debian are both viable options + no spyware, what's not to love?
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
Give it up man, Ubuntu or Debian are both viable options + no spyware, what's not to love?
Well not being able to play most games for one. Two, not being able to take part in most computer related events. No real support for VR or 3d printer support.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
Clippy is now named Cortana! Respect her chosen gender, you intensive clod!
No cheating please.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I got tired and just moved to Mac.
Trump APPROVES! John Barron says as much!
Hopefully this update fixes my audio and wifi drivers since the Fall update disabled them and they no longer work.
This being a tech site and all I figure that people can use the word "bricked" correctly. No windows will not "brick" your computer. Unless you need to pop out the BIOS chip or connect up a JTAG programmer then your computer isn't bricked. Even then a quick firmware rewrite and things are fixed. Call me when one BGA solder joint goes bad and you need to reflow the board, then it's bricked.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Perhaps they could fix something like the green bar of slowness or the backup function which randomly picks random files to backup with a random strategy. A windows 10 update wiped out windows 10 because it had a problem with my HP Printer and it removed some of my files, even though it said it wouldn't.
When I read they are adding features I'm appalled because the features they already have work so poorly. Eventually I predict Microsoft will just front end Ubuntu because they've lost the ability to develop OS software.
"It seems that you changed default browser to Firefox. I helped you and changed all the file associations back to Edge."
MS added a flag to allow other apps to handle long file paths and fix a decade's old bug.
Will MS' OWN File Explorer now finally use this flag and be able to handle files IT ITSELF CREATES ?!
Windows 10 NSA Edition.
Use Linux.
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>> All I want is a reliable and secure OS
Use Linux.
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Lack of security in the Linux kernel is kind of an issue.
Top 50 most vulnerable software packages
My PC is still trying to install the Fall Creators Update. This one fails over and over again. It's a PITA.
The cause seems to be VeraCrypt. So I decrypted all of my partitions, then uninstalled VeraCrypt, then retried to install the Fall Creators Update. Honestly, it did proceed further into the process... but it failed once again.
The more bullshit Microsoft adds to Windows, the more SteamOS become a better alternative.
SteamOS won't waste the CPU and RAM of my PC running useless bullshit like Cortana, Skype, telemetry, etc.
#DeleteFacebook
Microsoft so far has not impressed me with any new features it has offered in Windows 10 upgrades. What has annoyed me is the period of instability I experience every time Microsoft pushes out one of these useless upgrades. Frankly, I could be very happy with a stable Windows 10 1511 edition and skip all the other BS releases with stuff I never wanted or ask for.
Ubuntu or Debian are both viable options
For whom? Those people who care about this shit don't have it meet their requirements, those people who don't care, ....well they don't care.
Seriously Microsoft quit trying to hop on the pay to play or app store gravy train. Face up to the fact that you unfortunately missed the train of that era. I don't need all these "assistance" gizmos to buy things I don't need, I'm happy with the Windows 2000 interface for all it's worth. I don't need more ads telling me how to fork over my hard earned cash...
Since the latest update, none of my WinX PCs can use Remote Desktop outside of our LAN!
I'm sure this is a FEATURE somehow.....