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Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com)
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.
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.
New and improved breakage!
Oh and I get to set my default browser back to Chrome and my preferred PDF reader back to Adobe Reader.
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.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
We can and will break your machine any time because you're our beta testers, and we're going to monetise the shit outta your desktop experience.
Congratulations, you no longer own your machine and you don't get a vote about what is installed on it ... and you get the privilege of paying Microsoft for being treated like what you want doesn't matter.
The real question is have they finally figured out how to do differential updates?
It's a pain in the ass to download and reinstall the whole blasted OS with *every* update. I can't wait to need to use my PC for something, only for it to tell me it's applying updates for 15 minutes on boot. Upgrading RHEL 7.4 to RHEL 7.5 is only a couple hundred MB - and it is done by running "yum update". Whole process changes lots of system files, but only took maybe 3 minutes and a restart.
Another Slashdot article about Windows, and we can already see the trolls crawling out with their complaints about privacy, breakage, licensing, and other such crap.
Look, you can hate on Microsoft all you want, but please stop pulling others into your dystopian fantasies. As a longtime Linux user, I'm a big fan of FLOSS, but it's not for everyone. Most folks don't care about their software's freedom, just as long as it keeps working.
Yes, that means updating. Keeping your systems patched and updated is the best way to reduce attack surface, regardless of what OS you use. 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.
Don't go turning off security features thinking you're protecting your privacy... you're really just increasing the time it takes for you to be protected against new threats. 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.
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.
With that all out of the way, let's all have a nice friendly conversation, eh? Anyone?
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
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
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Microsoft missed an opportunity to mess with language parsers here.
Or are they just running late because their language parser crashed when presented with this idea and they had to fix it?
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
I'm all for security updates, but I haven't recovered from the last time I was hit with "new features."
Why do they insist on this broken update model which breaks things every fucking time. Last time was my VPN and Virtualbox network adapters.
Why can't they just put their 3D paint to the Windows store? I wish they modularized more. Cortana should also be an optional application. So does Edge.
What's wrong with Windows? Some of us like to play videogames!
#DeleteFacebook
Looking at Microsoft’s support cycle is a mess. It could do with a lot of simplifying. Make the next update Windows 10.1 and make it the only supported upgrade getting everyone on the same page. Release new point versions every two years (LTSB versions) and feature updates (service packs?) every six months following Ubuntu’s model. So 2015 would be Windows 10.0, 2018 10.1, 2020 10.2 and so on.
Come April 29, disable the updating process. Yes, it's possible. Wait for May 3-4. Read up what's going on. Then decide whether you want to install or whether it's better to keep the update disabled.
Windows Updates are not a nature of force. You still have every option to not let them happen and wait it out 'til others have played Russian roulette for your convenience.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm running Windows 7 as a VM on my Mac because I have one application that runs on Windows. But support goes away in under two years and was thinking about buying an 8.1 license while they're still available to give me another three years. This application seems to leak RAM on W10 but runs fine on W7. It would take some effort to replace the Windows application but I sometimes wonder if I should start work on it. The program doesn't run on Wine.
So...20 days late? Not bad.
So...20 days late? Not bad.
It was coming earlier, but a blue screen was affecting some users. Hence the delay.
Let's go ahead and add that to the list, then...
I'd much prefer to see non-security updates completely branched off, but I can also understand Microsoft's reluctance to do that. It makes their testing and rollout far more complex. On the other hand, it's what GNU/Linux distros do all the time, with so few problems that they become news events when they do happen. It would seem to me that Microsoft should be able to spin up a boatload of Azure instances test every configuration, since they're pushing that cloud's capabilities so much...
The other major issue is that such things are often integrated. You can't have everyone get automatic AV updates without everyone having AV, so Defender became a standard feature. You can't have Defender without (and from here on I'm making up things I'm not ambitious enough to research) .NET 4.5.0, so .NET is a standard feature. You can't have .NET 4.5.0 without (still making things up) Windows Management Tools, so that becomes standard, along with (still... you get the idea) PowerShell, and so on.
Unfortunately, there are always the slow-movers who will never add features. Then the question becomes one of support and sustainment. How long is a bare-minimal feature set considered a supported option? The Desktop Window Manager has been around for a decade now. It works, but if it were an optional feature, there'd still be folks using the old XP-era window manager, and they'd be complaining about not being able to run modern software. At some point, users have to upgrade, and Microsoft has chosen to make this a semi-annual event, essentially forcing the issue.
I'm not such a fan of the user feature integration, but generally have no strong feelings about it either way. My main complaint in this whole thread is against the folks who say things like "disable SmartScreen" or "turn off automatic reboots", or the worst one I've seen yet, "block all Microsoft servers in your firewall". Such advice looks wonderfully clever and seems like a great way to be in control of your system, but the end result is just more attack surface.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
I keep looking at this thinking that they should call it the Windows 2018-04-10 update.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
You can play video games without Windows. Switch your PC from Windows to GNU/Linux and add a PlayStation 4 console. Quite a few PC games on Steam and emulators of retro consoles are ported to Linux, and Wine runs numerous others. Many unported games that do not work in Wine are ported to a PlayStation platform, and some PlayStation 2 through 4 games can use a mouse and keyboard. One thing you do lose on PlayStation 4, however, is mods.
The things people are constantly bitching about are bad decisions from two years ago that have already been corrected: such as the ability to easily disable telemetry now, or the ability to set "working hours" in which Windows will not update / restart itself because it may interfere with daily activities.
Including the ability to mark Ethernet as metered without using the registry editor (which isn't even present on Windows 10 Lean), or to mark a connection as metered from 05:00 to 01:00 local time? Satellite Internet subscribers depend on those features in order not to exceed the monthly data transfer quota that satellite ISPs impose.
Microsoft account required, so only "free" in the sense that it doesn't cost money.
Without some form of authentication, how else should the offsite backup or web access feature ensure that only you can view or edit your notes? Other tools to back up your notes offsite, such as Dropbox and Google Keep, also require an account.
So...20 days late? Not bad.
It was coming earlier, but a blue screen was affecting some users. Hence the delay.
20 years late would be better.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
So...20 days late? Not bad.
It was coming earlier, but a blue screen was affecting some users. Hence the delay.
Blue Screens - the one Windows legacy that will be with us always.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
The program doesn't run on Wine.
Which program is it, so we can Slashdot the program's AppDB entry with requests to get it working?
The previous versions certainly weren't a "service".
Updates, support and bug fixes. Those are a service to support a product.
The OS itself?
Am I the only one that feels like saying "humbug" to the notion?
Maybe I should step up my Lubuntu education...
Just in case.
Many of these thousands of games on Steam are fake games, tossed together in a weekend using unmodified or barely modified parts from Unity's Asset Store in an attempt to make money from Steam trading cards. Some reviewers refer to these as asset flips.
linux only works in places where you can hide it from the users (severs, smartphones).
My cable modem runs on Linux. So does my wireless router.
And web browsers will tell you they're insecure for either A. asking for a password over cleartext HTTP, or B. using HTTPS and having a certificate that isn't signed by a major certificate authority because your modem or router lacks a fully qualified domain name. Besides, assuming "severs" was a typo for "servers", that's what the administration interface of the cable modem and wireless router are.
There's little incentive for manufacturers to use Linux over ChromeOS
X11/Linux can run Chrome, many offline-centric native applications that are ported to a native toolkit such as Qt or GTK+, and many Windows applications through Wine. Chrome OS can run only Chrome without first being put into a self-destructing "developer mode." The selling point of X11/Linux over Chrome OS is that it runs these offline-centric applications without self-destructing. The selling point of X11/Linux over Windows is no royalty payable to Microsoft if the device's screen is bigger than 8 inches diagonal visible image size.
Just set the registry key to default your ethernet connection as metered
There's no GUI editor for this setting, and insider builds of the forthcoming Windows 10 Lean add an objectionable "feature" of lacking a registry editor.