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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the Next Free Major Update To Its Desktop OS (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft today revealed that the next free Windows 10 update is called the Windows 10 October 2018 Update ... and it will arrive in that month. From a report: For those keeping track, this is Windows 10 version 1809. Although the company had not announced this update before today, Windows Insiders have been getting builds from Windows 10's RS5 branch since February. Windows 10 October 2018 Update includes a dark theme for File Explorer, a new snipping experience, a cloud-powered clipboard, support for extended line endings in Notepad, integration with the Your Phone app, new web sign-in and fast sign-in features, a mixed reality flashlight feature, SwiftKey in the touch keyboard, and many other improvements. The highly anticipated Sets feature did not make the cut. Windows 10 is being developed as a service, meaning it receives new features on a regular basis. Microsoft has released five major updates so far: November Update, Anniversary Update, Creators Update, Fall Creators Update, and April 2018 Update.
And release it in time for the 20th anniversary of the Halloween documents.
You pay the price by not being able to control or own your PC anymore.
You will be surprised how many business users use Snipping Tool. I mean, would I buy an entire OS just for that? No. Will I welcome some improvements? Yes, yes I will. And proper line ending support in Notepad is a godsend.
Windows 10 version 1809 broke most of my games in DX9, making me have to go back to Windows 7. What will they break this time, the sound support? Or the support for PS/2 keyboards?
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Does that mean that when I copy&paste a password it will be put "in the cloud"? :/
Aren't all Windows updates free? Why did they go out of their way to call this one "free"? Are future updates not going to be free?
(I'm a Linux user, in an all-Linux household, so I admit I could be mistaken/ignorant.)
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Microsoft has one highly functional business model, which is selling new operating systems with new computers.
If you do not upgrade your computer, they do not sell more product. Most people have not been upgrading because our desktop/laptop tech is stable enough and fast enough that you can keep your iron for a decade.
Solution: force everyone to switch to Windows 10, add crap to it until it runs as slowly as Congress, then watch everyone run out to buy new machines because the old ones are unusable at their vermicular speeds.
Alternative Right.
*cough* Greenshot
File Explorer is worse than ever. The last major update fucked up file associations for images (to promote their crappy new image program). A few weeks ago I got upgrade nags even though I'm running the corporate edition where you're supposed to be able to set time blocks where nagging doesn't happen. Windows 10 is a pile of shit and Microsoft is playing around with themes.
Do people have a choice here? Forgive me if I am asking something silly; I haven't used Windows for a long, long time.
Average people? No. They'll get nags and eventually it'll reboot on its own. You can play various tricks with metered connection, disabling the update service etc. but most tricks only work for a little while then Microsoft force-installs it anyway. Mostly because critical patches ignore your settings and eventually a critical patch will require you upgrade the base system first. There's apparently some very obscure ways to really block it for machines where the upgrade fails and such, but they've hidden it real well. And it's monolithic, if you block it then no security patches either. Once you're on the Win10 train, Microsoft really doesn't want you to get off.
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Why can't they just update individual apps like Notepad (to add unix line ending support) without having to update the entire OS and set back Edge as the default browser and scrap my firewall settings?
Seriously, stop breaking RSAT, we kinda rely on that shit to maintain our fucking shit, it's getting old having you break it with each feature build, that brings zero changes to RSAT. fuck off.
Hmm correct me if I’m wrong pu if each windows yodate (at keast the sesonaly nsmed ones) keep preaking things, that keads to losy productivety and other costs would thst not raise windowses TCO, or has that term been rediffibed, I mustvadmit thst keeping ot top of all thr TLAs ar nor axactly at the top of my list
Try 8.1 Pro with Classic Shell, its Win 7 with faster boot times and better SSD support. I figure I'll stay on 8.1 until it goes EOL which hopefully between Wine and Valve's work on getting everything on Steam working with Wine I'll be able to hop off before there is no choice but take Windows 10 Clusterfuck Edition.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.