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This thread seems to have seriously lost its direction, The discussion over forced updates has been discussed to death many times if you look through al 150+ pages as well as other threads.
It is bloody irrelevant how it used to work, All that matters is for home especially, forced updates are a mandatory requirement of home WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. Whinging about it endlessly here is not going to change MS's position one iota. Use the feedback mechanisms and whinge direct to MS So lets get this thread back on track and talk about some interesting things eg forthcoming redstone release. For those interested, the latest Insider version 14352 has a short expiry date of 15th July, which means they have to release a new version soon, so I am guessing the next release to Insiders will be the actual redstone release (or at least as close as it is going to get). Although an actual date has not yet been set, general belief is it will come out on full release on July 29th (exactly one year after initial release). Incidentally for those who have been holding upgrading until redstone is released, assuming MS stick to plan to stop free upgrades by end of 28th July, then you have to upgrade to 10586 soon or else you will miss the boat. Timing looks like you will not be able to update to redstone direct from 7/8 and get a free upgrade.
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For those interested, the latest Insider version 14352 has a short expiry date of 15th July, which means they have to release a new version soon, so I am guessing the next release to Insiders will be the actual redstone release (or at least as close as it is going to get). Although an actual date has not yet been set, general belief is it will come out on full release on July 29th (exactly one year after initial release).
Incidentally for those who have been holding upgrading until redstone is released, assuming MS stick to plan to stop free upgrades by end of 28th July, then you have to upgrade to 10586 soon or else you will miss the boat. Timing looks like you will not be able to update to redstone direct from 7/8 and get a free upgrade. Mr DOS is right: the OS is there to serve the applications, not the other way around. |
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Is there some reason I should know, or care, about 'redstone'?
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What is Redstone? It’s the next big update to Windows 10 slated for release sometime in 2016. http://www.winbeta.org/tags/redstoneRedstone is the second update coming for Windows 10 and is a larger update compared to Threshold 2. Redstone will be what Windows 8.1 was to Windows 8 essentially, bringing much needed changes and improvements to the feature-set and design of Windows 10. Redstone is scheduled to launch around a year after Windows 10 did, and is pretty much ‘next’ version of Windows. Some other info here: http://www.networkworld.com/article/...i-changes.html |
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We all seem to be forgetting that Windows is just an operating system - it runs the hardware and provides a platform for Photoshop, video editors, TV cards etc to run on.
The problem is that Microsoft wants our focus to shift away from our software to the OS itself, with all their silly apps and 'helpful' search tools etc. Most of the silly extras can be disabled/ignored, leaving you with something that looks and performs more or less like Windows 7. I don't care what an OS looks like or who makes it - it's just got to run my programs. Don't fall for the Microsoft nonsense that the OS is the thing. |
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Classic OS fixation. Like the Linux obsessives who argue endlessly about the pros and cons of THIS distro with THAT desktop, reload their OS every week and presumably get very little else done. (Which, incidentally, is half the reason a lot of people run a mile when someone mentions Linux.) Is there some reason I should know, or care, about 'redstone'?
Mr DOS is right: the OS is there to serve the applications, not the other way around. Do not be so effing arrogant to criticise me for taking an interest even if you do not give a toss. |
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Now China is taking an issue. That's a lot of (pirated) installations
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ch...-idUSKCN0YI0CK |
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Classic OS fixation. Like the Linux obsessives who argue endlessly about the pros and cons of THIS distro with THAT desktop, reload their OS every week and presumably get very little else done. (Which, incidentally, is half the reason a lot of people run a mile when someone mentions Linux.) Is there some reason I should know, or care, about 'redstone'?
Mr DOS is right: the OS is there to serve the applications, not the other way around. ![]() When somebody begins their post with "For those interested..." and, by your own admission, you don't actually understand the rest of what they wrote, why on Earth would you accuse them of obsessive fixation?! Assuming that you've bothered to Google it by now, and you understand that Redstone is just the name of the next major update, can you see how oilman was simply discussing Windows 10 in a thread about Windows 10? So not really that obsessive. I find that most Windows 10 users have simply gotten on with their lives. The only obsessives are the Windows 10 luddites who hate Microsoft and everything that they stand for with a passion, apart from the Windows operating system that they use, which they can't bear to part with.
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Peeps can discuss any aspect of Windows 10 on here to their hearts' content - who the hell are you to dictate the direction of the banter?
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LastPass extension is now available for Microsoft Edge
You need to be running the latest Insider build 14352 for Windows 10 Works great. Remote Desktop for Windows 10 is now out of preview. About time, they have really dragged their heals on releasing this fully. More info in the blog about all the exiting preview changes https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rds...iting-preview/ |
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I find that most Windows 10 users have simply gotten on with their lives. The only obsessives are the Windows 10 luddites who hate Microsoft and everything that they stand for with a passion, apart from the Windows operating system that they use, which they can't bear to part with.
![]() In my case, I await a new SSD from Amazon, at which point I will clone one of my existing W7 laptops to it, upgrade it to W10 (using the media creator) and give it a try. If I don't like it I'll just revert. I'm able to do this because I disabled the automatic upgrade at an early stage and have taken the time to make a proper implementation and recovery plan. I've been through every GUI since GEM and I'm not afraid of change, so please be careful with the assumptions you make. My quarrel has never been with W10 per se, but with the unconscionable way MS has foisted what has been an extended customer-based beta exercise on millions of users without due diligence. I have seen people on limited broadband contracts charged £30 for the W10 download that they didn't want. I have an elderly friend with very limited eyesight who was in a complete panic that her heavily customised PC would become completely unfamiliar to her following an unwanted upgrade. I have neighbours whose W10 ugrade has failed, as has their attempt to roll the system back. Most of the victims have been people who use their PC in the same way they use their dishwasher - which they have a right to do - but IT-savvy people have not been immune. MS has betrayed its customers and I will say so at every opportunity. Perhaps someone in some MS office somewhere reads forums like this one and if the anger felt by many users is made clear to them, just maybe they will think twice before employing the same tactics again. |
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'Luddites' is one of those terms that future generations will probably regard as unacceptable. It seems always to be used abusively. And yes, I do know what it means.
In my case, I await a new SSD from Amazon, at which point I will clone one of my existing W7 laptops to it, upgrade it to W10 (using the media creator) and give it a try. If I don't like it I'll just revert. I'm able to do this because I disabled the automatic upgrade at an early stage and have taken the time to make a proper implementation and recovery plan. I've been through every GUI since GEM and I'm not afraid of change, so please be careful with the assumptions you make. My quarrel has never been with W10 per se, but with the unconscionable way MS has foisted what has been an extended customer-based beta exercise on millions of users without due diligence. I have seen people on limited broadband contracts charged £30 for the W10 download that they didn't want. I have an elderly friend with very limited eyesight who was in a complete panic that her heavily customised PC would become completely unfamiliar to her following an unwanted upgrade. I have neighbours whose W10 ugrade has failed, as has their attempt to roll the system back. Most of the victims have been people who use their PC in the same way they use their dishwasher - which they have a right to do - but IT-savvy people have not been immune. MS has betrayed its customers and I will say so at every opportunity. Perhaps someone in some MS office somewhere reads forums like this one and if the anger felt by many users is made clear to them, just maybe they will think twice before employing the same tactics again. ![]() I'd be very interested to know whether the upgrade retains all the settings and programs relating to the visually impaired. If it does then your elderly friend needn't have worried, and the scaremongers would be arguably more culpable than Microsoft. |
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My quarrel has never been with W10 per se, but with the unconscionable way MS has foisted what has been an extended customer-based beta exercise on millions of users without due diligence. I have seen people on limited broadband contracts charged £30 for the W10 download that they didn't want. I have an elderly friend with very limited eyesight who was in a complete panic that her heavily customised PC would become completely unfamiliar to her following an unwanted upgrade. I have neighbours whose W10 ugrade has failed, as has their attempt to roll the system back. Most of the victims have been people who use their PC in the same way they use their dishwasher - which they have a right to do - but IT-savvy people have not been immune.
MS has betrayed its customers and I will say so at every opportunity. Perhaps someone in some MS office somewhere reads forums like this one and if the anger felt by many users is made clear to them, just maybe they will think twice before employing the same tactics again. A few months ago, I upgraded a friend's computer from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. But in order to do this, I took his computer from his rural location, with its dodgy broadband connection, to my home, with a fast broadband connection. I backed up his system, and then updated it using the Media Creation Tool. Everything went well, and both he and I are much happier with Windows 10 than we ever were with Windows 8 or 8.1. So (with the caveat that Windows 10 is a platform whose future evolution cannot be controlled by the end user), it seems like a good OS. But if the update had been automatically initiated at his location via Windows Update, I can almost guarantee (based on bitter experience) that it would have failed, and that I would have had to sort out the resultant mess. What I don't understand is why people are still faffing around trying to avoid certain updates or switching them off altogether. Just run Never 10. Once. All 83 non-installed kilobytes of it. I did, and all those feelings of uncertainty about whether this was going to be the day Microsoft finally forced Windows 10 on me vanished instantly! "Please Note: Never10 does NOT prevent the installation of ANY Windows updates, including the infamous Get Windows 10 (GWX) update KB3035583. What Never10 does is use Microsoft's fully documented and sanctioned system settings to prevent ANY update of Windows. Windows does not offer any clean means for robustly and selectively preventing Windows updates . . . and it is not necessary." |
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^^^ Now that is what I call Pragmatism.
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Coming soon to The Jeremy Kyle Show, "Windows 10 Ruined My Life."
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I agree with this. I may or may not choose to update my Windows 7 machine to Windows 10, but if I do, it will be at a time of my choosing, in a manner of my choosing (i.e not via Windows update!) and after I have made preparations for rolling back to my original configuration if it all goes pear-shaped....
What I don't understand is why people are still faffing around trying to avoid certain updates or switching them off altogether. Just run Never 10. Once. All 83 non-installed kilobytes of it. I did, and all those feelings of uncertainty about whether this was going to be the day Microsoft finally forced Windows 10 on me vanished instantly! However for readers who are nervous about installing Never 10, it's worth pointing out that the author Steve Gibson of Gibson Research is a well known and trusted independent computer/software/security consultant who's produced neat pieces of interesting and useful code like this for years. I would have no hesitation in using one of his freeware products. None, zero, zilch. Never 10 is just a simple system editor - something that Microsoft could have added but chose to leave out. |
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MS has betrayed its customers and I will say so at every opportunity. Perhaps someone in some MS office somewhere reads forums like this one and if the anger felt by many users is made clear to them, just maybe they will think twice before employing the same tactics again.
They are all desperate to get on that gigantic market.
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However for readers who are nervous about installing Never 10, it's worth pointing out that the author Steve Gibson of Gibson Research is a well known and trusted independent computer/software/security consultant who's produced neat pieces of interesting and useful code like this for years. I would have no hesitation in using one of his freeware products. None, zero, zilch.
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MS has betrayed its customers and I will say so at every opportunity. Perhaps someone in some MS office somewhere reads forums like this one and if the anger felt by many users is made clear to them, just maybe they will think twice before employing the same tactics again.
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China isn't amused. MS can tell individual users to **** off, but when China says "Jump!", MS asks "How high?"
They are all desperate to get on that gigantic market. |
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I would not at all be surprised if recent incidents such as this one led to more people moving to Chromebooks, OS X (including hackintoshes) and free Linux operating systems.
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I would not at all be surprised if recent incidents such as this one led to more people moving to Chromebooks, OS X (including hackintoshes) and free Linux operating systems.
However for the vast majority (99+% I would guess) they will not. Changing OS is a far more significant change than changing version of Windows. |
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I agree. This is one of Microsoft's very bad ideas.
Windows 10 Pro No Longer Lets IT Block App Store. Microsoft dealt administrators a blow with its Windows 10 Pro 1511 update, forcing them to migrate to Windows 10 Enterprise should they want to prevent Windows Store access. There can only be one logical explanation for that move - to encourage businesses to move to the more expensive enterprise edition of Win 10 which does permit that blocking function. Quote:
Well - it is pretty obvious some will. Hardly an earth shattering prediction - but how many?
However for the vast majority (99+% I would guess) they will not. Changing OS is a far more significant change than changing version of Windows. |
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MS has betrayed its customers and I will say so at every opportunity. Perhaps someone in some MS office somewhere reads forums like this one and if the anger felt by many users is made clear to them, just maybe they will think twice before employing the same tactics again. |
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What the hell was that massive Windows 10 update that has just taken 45 minutes to install and ended with promising new features?
It's updated my graphics driver to the latest one that doesn't work on some important programmes for me and won't let me roll it back! |
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What the hell was that massive Windows 10 update that has just taken 45 minutes to install and ended with promising new features?
It's updated my graphics driver to the latest one that doesn't work on some important programmes for me and won't let me roll it back! |
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They are all desperate to get on that gigantic market.