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As Windows 10 19H1 Update Approaches, Microsoft Says Version 1809 is Now Ready For 'Broad Deployment' (onmsft.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-record dept.

We're now very close to the next semi-annual update for Windows 10, but Microsoft has just announced today that the version 1809 released last Fall is now the recommended version for all users. From a report: This is a new milestone in the troubled history of this major release, as Microsoft had to pause its public rollout after discovering a serious file deletion bug in October. "Based on the data and the feedback we've received from consumers, OEMs, ISVs, partners, and commercial customers, Windows 10, version 1809 has transitioned to broad deployment," wrote John Wilcox, Windows as a service evangelist on the Windows IT Pro blog today. We're now a little more than four months removed from Microsoft's re-released Windows 10 version 1803, and Microsoft previously admitted that it would be more cautious during the public rollout. According to AdDuplex's latest survey on more than 100,000 Windows 10 PCS, only 26.4% of them were running the version 1809 in March.

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  1. Should have pretended it never existed. by xack · · Score: 2

    It would save a whole load of hassle if Microsoft just went straight to 1903 and put 1809 in the archives where Windows ME and Clippy got put.

    1. Re:Should have pretended it never existed. by omnichad · · Score: 2

      That's 19H1. They're too embarrassed about their 03 releases coming out in month 04, and their 09 release coming out in month 11, rolled back and then decided to be ok in the month of....1903, I guess.

  2. If only... by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... you could get security updates without getting "enhancements". Right after I fine-tuned my last Win10 installation to turn off all the things I did not want on the system, it updated and gave me more things to turn off. And I still don't know if the things that were actually broken were fixed.

    With having to periodically tell it NOT to do the Fall update, I fixed the updater the way a lot of other people do... By installing Linux. Of course, I went from having an intermittent finger print scanner to a completely non-functional one, but that wasn't a big deal. At least now I can log in without being online.

    1. Re:If only... by antdude · · Score: 2

      It's not just Microsoft too. Apple and others too. I just want fixes! Not new features! :(

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    2. Re:If only... by Zuriel · · Score: 2

      Windows 10 gave me the feeling that I was fighting with my computer to get it to do what I want. Like a shopping trolley with a bad wheel, it had nothing but disdain for my desires and insisted on steering itself into a shelf at every opportunity. It was a constant fight to force it to obey.

      I didn't want to spend time getting things to work on Linux, but I was spending time fighting with my own computer anyway, so I figured I might as well go with the one that isn't deliberately forcing it's idea of how I should use my computer on me.

  3. Is it just me or does '19H1' sound like a virus? by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 2

    Just sayin'. Especially in the case of Miscreant-o-soft.

  4. 1809 has hit some snags for me .... by King_TJ · · Score: 3, Informative

    I recently tried to upgrade an older HP Probook 4520s that originally came with Windows 7. Windows 10 worked just fine on it when I install directly from a DVD with build 1803 on it. But the upgrade to 1809 consistently crashed it, so it would begin booting normally but hit a black screen and total system freeze before you ever got to a login prompt. I tried all the tricks, like installing the 1809 upgrade from a bootable USB stick with that Win 10 build already on it. No go.

    I wound up having to tell it to postpone the 1809 upgrade for 365 days (the longest time period Windows 10 lets you specify), so the computer could keep working.

    I guess it'll be great if the next build addresses the issue and lets me just skip over 1809. But I'm not sure how much they care about specific, older laptops like this one - when HP themselves dropped support for it after Windows 8?

  5. Re:Skipping 1809? by omnichad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That would be the same problem. Don't install it when it's new.

  6. Re:Hope its every bit as good as 1803 by omnichad · · Score: 2

    So you're saying I should buy a Windows server license and run a domain controller for my home computer and reward Microsoft with loads of cash for this? You are delusional.

  7. Simple Solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isolate your Windows 10 system behind a firewall, and only use SOCKS proxying via your web browser or other apps to connect. Without a network gateway windows, even windows 10 can't connect out onto the network. If it gets to the point where it starts stealing your proxy credentials to exfiltrate data, don't configure proxy settings on it, keep it isolated and use a secondary computer for network access.

    It's not ideal, but this is the easiest way without a firewall that can block microsoft software from connecting out.

  8. lazyness by n3r0.m4dski11z · · Score: 2

    Honestly at this point, i think its just easier for these devs to make a new feature than fix an old one. Thats not when they are "fixing" things that were never broken in the first place! (every metro application, calc, paint, etc, have all gotten worse (when they even run...))

    I am not sure its even purposeful, but the result of being lazy. It takes me personally more effort to troubleshoot things than it does to just bang out a new feature, especially if it doesn't have to be perfect. Just meet some arbitrary 6mo deadline..

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  9. Re:Hope its every bit as good as 1803 by n3r0.m4dski11z · · Score: 2

    assuming your date is not next week (ie in the future), if you haven't rebooted in that long than windows is probably all kinds of fucked. theres probably 2gb of updates since January...
    or are you on a 2 year old version which stupidly is "end of life", and thus you have no updates to apply (Problem solved i guess??)

    I can never reboot a win2k machine either, it doesnt mean that its safe or secure. Microsoft has broken 30 years of precedent, or more, about what it means to run windows with this release. I use it every day and its fucking garbage and getting worse with every feature update.

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