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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.
>Any time I have to use Windows, I feel vaguely unclean.
Be careful you don't cut yourself on that edge there. One of the reasons Linux is having trouble taking off as a mainstream desktop is because of the mental image projected by comments like yours above. None of what you've 'prophesied' has come to pass in Win10 updates, so unless/until it does you sound like a crank, and by association that paints general Linux users in the same hue with current Windows users who encounter comments like that.
How about we stick to legitimate, factual criticisms of Windows, as there are tons of those?
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.
As the AC noted, 15 minutes is on the fast side. Where I work, we've lost many hours due to this crap triggering in the middle of the day, despite active hours being set. Fortunately, we haven't suffered any of the total-breakage no-boot scenarios, though we have had to roll things back a number of times due to forced driver updates.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
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.
I'm all for security updates, but I haven't recovered from the last time I was hit with "new features."
To counter this, look at One Note. Microsoft just moved it from Office (paid) to part of Windows (free). 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. Microsoft has actively been listening and correcting these issues that customers have massively complained about. Why has this not held true in the overall Linux world with SystemD? Myself and countless others have already made the jump away from Linux because of it, to other things like FreeBSD and Illumos.
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.
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.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
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.
Why do they insist on this broken update model which breaks things every fucking time. Last time was my VPN and Virtualbox network adapters.
"DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"
But seriously, our users run a lot of weird or old apps and nearly every month something breaks after a Windows update. It's gotten to the point where some departments refuse to install updates even on public-facing servers. Microsoft has created a serious problem.
I haven't seen the problem with VirtualBox. I have about three dozen vms, and sometimes run half a dozen of them at a time some with very complicated network setups with multiple interfaces. Also, I usually have three or four OpenVPN connections running simultaneously since we're too cheap to pay the 5 cents per hour to do site-to-site VPN to different Amazon regions or to buy better cisco firewalls to support it. It has been rock solid for me since I started using 10.
So what you are saying is it's a game that was never free in Windows 10 to begin with making the earlier comment completely invalid? Gotchya.
You know you are a hopeless MS fanboy when you find yourself defending Microsoft making Mine sweeper and Solitaire pay apps.
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.
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.
Settings > Network > Change connection properties > Metered connection