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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the Next Free Major Update To Its Desktop OS (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

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.

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  1. It's not free. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You pay the price by not being able to control or own your PC anymore.

  2. "Cloud powered clipboard"? by admin7087 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does that mean that when I copy&paste a password it will be put "in the cloud"? :/

  3. Re:"Free" as in your data for sale by ichthus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  4. The end goal is to slow down your computers by alternative_right · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Microsoft fiddling again while the OS burns by hackertourist · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.