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Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the watchlist dept.

The next major update to Windows 10 -- called Windows 10 April 2018 Update -- finally has a release date. From a report: Microsoft today announced that the free Windows 10 April 2018 Update (previously rumored to be called the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update) will begin rolling out on April 30, 2018. For those keeping track, this update is Windows 10 build 17134.

Windows 10 is a service, meaning it was built in a very different way from its predecessors so it can be regularly updated with not just fixes, but new features, too. Microsoft has released four major updates so far: November Update, Anniversary Update, Creators Update, and Fall Creators Update. The fifth one will be out on Monday.

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  1. Nice... by jenningsthecat · · Score: 1, Interesting

    it can be regularly updated with not just fixes, but new features, too.

    Sure - new "features". I bet that includes, (if it hasn't already), disabling / removing applications without regard to the customer's wishes, and/or turning off a previously free application or feature until the customer pays for it.

    I'm so glad I was able to leave the Windows ecosystem behind. For all the flaws I find in Linux, I'm so, so grateful for it, and for the people who keep it alive. Any time I have to use Windows, I feel vaguely unclean.

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    1. Re:Nice... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Earlier versions of Win 10 were known for removing "incompatible" apps without user permission, often random stuff like SFTP clients. As far as apps being moved to a paid model, look at something as stupid as Solitaire. Free in Windows 7, pay to remove ads in Windows 10. Not only pay, but pay $10 a year to remove ads.

    2. Re:Nice... by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Interesting

      To counter this, look at One Note. Microsoft just moved it from Office (paid) to part of Windows (free).

      Microsoft account required, so only "free" in the sense that it doesn't cost money.

      the ability to easily disable telemetry now

      Not really, the OS still tries to talk to the telemetry servers even if you disable all reporting options.

      the ability to set "working hours" in which Windows will not update / restart itself because it may interfere with daily activities

      To be fair, that never should have been an issue in the first place.

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  2. Features this won't include by jd · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A working OS to replace Windows
    Support for Elite Dangerous
    A decent filesystem
    Security
    Reliability
    A decent attitude at Microsoft
    Working technical support
    Standards-compliant software
    POSIX
    A shutdown that works without hacking it
    The ability to remove Clippy Jr
    Retention of privacy
    A decent compiler

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  3. Re:Yea but.... by greenwow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    differential updates?

    Microsoft has actually gone the other direction with their cumulative updates. Yes, ,it really sucks to download >1G updates each month at several of our sites still stuck with dial-up, but they are more reliable than the old way of having dozens and dozens of different updates that can fail.

  4. Re:Here we go again... by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, that means updating. Keeping your systems patched and updated is the best way to reduce attack surface, regardless of what OS you use

    And that's not what people are complaining about. What they are complaining about is that they have to patch for security but they have to accept patches which at the same time expose themselves to less privacy. What they are complaining about is that these updates are causing BSODs and other major bugs.

    Keeping old and familiar things is comfortable, but it's also keeping around the broken permissions model that Microsoft has been trying to improve since Windows Vista. Remember how much that broke? It was mostly because Vista had a decent security model, rather than the crap from XP.

    While some people refuse to change, that wasn't the major complaint of Vista. The major complaint was that it broke many things that took a while for drivers to be updated. Yes there were major changes to the security model but Vista chirping to ask for every single permission was annoying to many. Also another major complaint was how many brand new systems were sold as "Vista Capable" when they could only use the most crippled version of Vista.

    Microsoft doesn't care about the porn you watch or how many hours you spend on My Little Pony forums. They care about whether the worm infections causing havoc in Brazil all started from a website on a common domain, or use binaries with the same hashes.

    If MS doesn't care about those things then why are they increasingly gathering more data about what their users do? MS cares about all of that. It's a not a binary thing.

    Finally, please stop complaining that your hardware from 1994 doesn't work with the new updates. I'm terribly sorry that your vendor doesn't bother to support driver APIs less than a decade old, but it's time to move on. Those random bluescreens and lockups are usually not Microsoft's fault; it's that the third-party vendor doesn't think stability is enough of a priority to actually test their drivers.

    This is kinda a strawman argument isn't it? I think many admins care that Windows updates have been causing BSODs.

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