Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Next Major Update To Desktop OS (betanews.com) 121
At its developer conference on Thursday, Microsoft announced that the next major update to its desktop operating system will be called Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. It will be made available in September later this year. The update will come with several new features: Timeline, Pick Up Where You Left Off, Clipboard, OneDrive Files On-Demand, and Story Remix app among others. Timeline is a new feature that improves the Task View area to provide a list of apps and workspaces that you were using previously or on other devices. Think of it like a time machine for resuming old sessions. Timeline also combines with a new Pick Up Where You Left Off feature to let you resume sessions and apps on multiple devices. A report adds: "With Files On-Demand, you can access all your files in the cloud without having to download them and use storage space on your device. You don't have to change the way you work, because all your files -- even online files -- can be seen in File Explorer and work just like every other file on your device," says Jeff Teper, corporate vice president, Office, OneDrive and SharePoint teams. [...] Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will continue the use of Project Neon, which now has an official name of "Microsoft Fluent Design System." It is important to note that this design focus is not a Windows 10 FCU feature, but something Microsoft intends to implement in apps across platforms and device types. End users should start to experience it more with FCU, however. [...] Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will come with a new app called "Windows Story Remix." This app is designed to help users transform their existing photos and videos. This tool can be used to create stories from content in a fun way.
Maybe they should get the current update working? (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been reading about problems with the current update, maybe they should fix it first?
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I had to do a clean install on my Dell laptop. I'm hoping it will be necessary for the next update.
A user who hopes a clean install will be necessary after an update? You are Microsoft's dream come true!
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A user who hopes a clean install will be necessary after an update?
Back in the WinXP days, I could do a clean install and reinstall all application in 45 minutes. I've done that only three times over the last ten years since Windows Vista.
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I could do a clean install and reinstall all application in 45 minutes. I've done that only three times over the last ten years since Windows Vista.
...45 minutes? That must've been for a home/play PC, right? At work, between multiple version of Visual Studio, lots of admin/mgmt applications, multiple versions of SQL Server, etc. a clean install and app reinstall is more like a full day of teeth gnashing. About half of that time involves the countless service packs and updates being pulled down and installed.
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That must've been for a home/play PC, right?
Correct. With the base OS image installed, updated and saved prior to reinstalling programs.
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That fast, and all by hand?
During the WinXP era, I had six motherboards. During the Vista to Win10 era, two motherboards (the second being a replacement for the first after nine years).
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You reinstalled everything - I'm asking, did you use some sort of automation tool to lay down a preconfigured base image?
I use Acronis True Image [amzn.to] to image the system, backing up to a FreeNAS file server.
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Re: Maybe they should get the current update work (Score:2)
I've had experience with that in order to bundle Windows Updates in with the original ISO install. So you're telling me you've accomplished the same with Visual Studio ISO installs as well? Last time I looked at that, the quirks and gotchas took as long to rectify as it would just to install as-is.Boy oh boy, I have lucked out and found a real Cracker Jack right here...
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Yah, the current update is a royal pain. Failed repeatedly for me, but kept on trying. So I did a manual download of the patch, and installed it. Worked fine.
Unfortunately, the auto-update still thinks I need the update, so it dutifully tries every day to download and install the update, fails to do so, and reports that failure to me every morning.
This AM got the first hint at the new version. Popup appeared telling me about the new thing, gave me the option of telling them all about my privacy settin
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What do you think these updates are if not just fixes? This is a brave new world of only service packs to fix anything other than major security holes.
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I've been reading about problems with the current update, maybe they should fix it first?
Precisely! Also, what's the 'theme' of this OS that warrants the 'Creators' brand? I do have one suggestion for Creators - enable one to play music videos under Groove, instead of Movies, so that they can be played under playlists. Yeah, Windows Media Player does that as well, but it's not available on Windows 10 ARM or in the app store, only from legacy Windows 7.
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At this point I'd settle for Groove being able to play the music in my collection. When I added the collection to Groove, about five albums out of around 1000 actually showed up.
I was sort of expecting it to be unable to play FLAC files, but there are a lot of plain old MP3s in there too.
I've had bad experiences with all the Win10 apps I've tried: Mail, Wunderlist, and now MS To-Do. All three just stop communicating with the Internet for updates after a couple of days. Mail and the Win10 version of OneNote
Re: Ms. Mash - i s - a - r e t a r d (Score:1)
Windows FCU (Score:5, Funny)
How's that pronounced?
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I'm not a native English speaker, but I'd say it's "fuck you".
Fall Creators? (Score:2)
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
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Windows 10 Fails Creator
FTFY - V'Ger is pissed. Exterminate all the carbon units!
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0. Can't cause or allow through inaction the extinction of ${carbon-unit} species.
1. Can't cause or allow through inaction the death of a single ${carbon-unit}, unless it conflicts with the previous laws.
2. Must obey ${carbon-unit} orders unless it conflicts with the previous laws.
3. Must protect its own existence unless it conflic
Re: FCU = Fuck you (Score:1)
What do you expect. /. staff have trained and replaced themselves with cheap shit H1B smelly indian chimps with phony degrees.
With Files On-Demand (Score:1)
With Files On-Demand, we can access all your files in the cloud (and sell them on to the highest bidder)
Project Neon / Fluent Design System (Score:5, Insightful)
It seems to me like Microsoft hasn't fully learned the lesson that desktop/laptop users don't want a touch-centric iTunes style user interface. If you look at some of the screenshots, we're back to monochrome icons and flat totally featureless windows. I wonder if menus will even make an appearance, and if they do, they'll be back to ALL CAPS.
I'm all for having something like this in Tablet Mode. But come on guys, Windows Phone is dead. There's no reason to force PC users to use a phone-inspired interface. This honestly looks like what MS did with Visual Studio 2013 -- removed all the color, made the default text color an unreadable gray on white, etc. It took the developers complaining bitterly to get both Visual Studio and Office to have some color and visual differentiation again.
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That's not at all related to Neon or Fluent design. If anything this is less flat than the Windows 10 status quo.
So in other words... (Score:3)
they're just going to keep jamming more and more useless bullshitware into the OS that no one wants, no one will use, and continue to ignore bugs and other crapola in Windows
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Do you expect them to announce bug fixes 6 months out? You should actually see how many bugs they squash with these updates when they release them. The only people "ignoring" them are the marketing folk who know that people who want to know what new features are going to be present understand that bug fixes are par for the course.
As for no one wants or will use, the files on demand feature sounds useful as does Pick Up Where You Left Off. Quit your whining just because they aren't doing what *you* want them
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As for no one wants or will use, the files on demand feature sounds useful as does Pick Up Where You Left Off.
They do sound useful. It's too bad that they require placing so much trust in the likes of Microsoft.
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So MS is taking a cue from the Cheetos of the US;
They are creating a bigger issue to make us forget about the previous unresolved issues.
Nice.
OneDrive Files On-Demand (Score:2)
This is actually a feature I was waiting for. These days tablets have a small 128 or 256 GB SSD but you can have 1 TB cloud storage which will now be much more useful.
I hope they will add a feature to automatically delete the local copy of a file not used for X days.
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really what i'd like from MS is an easy way to permanently disable bullshit like skydrive and cortana. I get they want to push these things on users and it's a quaint notion... But FFS, i shouldn't have to manually edit the registry to permanently, completely, utterly remove them.
I will never want to use cortana, and I sure as shit do not ever want to use skydrive.
Just like I shouldn't have to resort to trickery to disable the automatic reboot that some updates foist on me. I don't give a fuck what you th
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windows 10 home has removed the ability to prevent the automatic reboots. (work machine, for whatever inexplicable reason it's running 10 home.)
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Like I mentioned in response to the previous poster, I always have my stuff offline. But it's a shadow of the OneDrive contents, so that the sync'ing is automatic. That way, I don't need to remember to sync it, or wonder which version is what.
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...and actually, they need to make a half decent Mac version of OneDrive. Without that, general corporate adoption will always be "yeah, the Windows guys are all done, but the Mac guys keep using local files".
That said, OneDrive doesn't integrate terribly well with Window 7 either, so maybe it'll just always be "well, some people use it for some stuff"...?
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general corporate doesn't really care or use Mac anyways
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Wouldn't Mac users automatically go w/ iCloud? I use OneDrive for my iPhone backups, but only b'cos I have 1TB there as a result of my Office 365 license.
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This is actually a feature I was waiting for. These days tablets have a small 128 or 256 GB SSD but you can have 1 TB cloud storage which will now be much more useful. I hope they will add a feature to automatically delete the local copy of a file not used for X days.
I thought that this was already there. Like a couple of years ago, when I had a low end WinBook w/ just 16GB of storage (as opposed to your 'low' of 128 or 256), what I did was have an off-line download of OneDrive (then SkyDrive) on the SD card, which also was the target drives for 'My Documents' and everything else. So that whenever I saved anything, a single operation ensured that there were 2 copies - both one on OneDrive and one on my SD card. Since then, when that WinBook broke down, I could just g
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I don't know what your setup is but with the latest version of windows and one drive, you can't browse your cloud files in the file manager without syncing (downloading a local copy). So either you sync it or you don't. But if you don't, you must manually either sync the file or get it from a web browser, which is painful in both cases.
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I did the latter - created a local copy. Actually, when I download OneDrive from the Windows Store and run it, it creates that for me in File Explorer. I work on files directly from there, and so at the end of my session, the OneDrive file is what gets updated. So no manual sync'ing of the file
And when I was really cramped for storage, I set it up so that the SkyDrive download was on the SD card. Actually, that one was a bit of a fiasco, when I had that WinBook. Initially, I could save it on the SD c
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I did the latter - created a local copy.
But you still have a local copy. The whole point of this feature is NOT having a local copy. Not on SD card, not on main storage, nothing. And still be able to seamlessly access files.
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PDFs being opened w/ Edge is the stupidest default Microsoft could have designed. Since all the PDF documents I'm usually interested in is offline, and in case there is an online PDF that I need, I download it and then access it. Microsoft could have made either their Reader the default, or allowed Adobe Acrobat to be the default if and once it was downloaded.
I don't want any application to open Edge, unless I go to Edge myself for normal web browsing, not the 'masquerade as an app' service.
Pick Up Where You Left Off (Score:2)
This features sounds interesting...
Is this what will lead to me being able to wave my hand from the monitor to the tv and have my app follow me? If so, ok, good job M$, I like that... but only that.
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Broken Hardware (Score:3)
Each new "update" to Windows breaks an undisclosed piece of hardware. We've seen the removal of DVD support. We've seen the removal of web cams. And from the security side, the March update for Windows broke smart cards (used by DoD, secure businesses) - I've literally had to run VMWare with a Windows 7 VM ever since on my work machine because I'm the I.T. tasked with "testing" Win10 to see if the entire company could use it. Since smart cards don't work anymore, things have become an absolute pain in the ass, since that is what we use for SSH authentication, which includes both server shell access and git access (things used literally every few minutes here). I can only imagine which critical hardware they'll cripple next.
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I've been experiencing other odd issues with SmartCards related to windows 10. I couldn't tell you what version of Windows 10 I'm on at my office. But, it's the weirdest damned thing I've experienced. I've been able to use my smartcard (yubikey) with windows 10 to the point where I've been able to load my certificate into pagent and ssh access my normal resources, but when logging into the domain it only lets me access local resources. So every time I elevate on my local computer to manage the domain, it sa
Wrong solution to the problem (Score:4, Insightful)
> Timeline is a new feature that improves the Task View area to provide a list of apps and workspaces that you were using previously or on other devices. Think of it like a time machine for resuming old sessions
Just bring back all of my opened apps in the state they were in before you rebooted my PC overnight, when I never asked you to, and I'll be happy.
Simpler solution: Quit fucking rebooting my machine, even if you tell me you're going to. If I want to postpone the reboot for a week, that should be *my* decision. That's all I want.
Seriously, I'm about to schedule a task to run "shutdown -a" (abort) every 2 minutes and have it run 24/7.
Re:Wrong solution to the problem (Score:5, Insightful)
Please mod parent up.
Preventing the regular rebooting of my computer "in the unused hours" (at night, when I sleep, announce at 2 AM that a reboot will take place at 4 AM so I will not be able to interfere) is a more urgent issue for me than these new features.
And now, you can work with your offline files without downloading them! They have finally re-invented NFS! Hooray!
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Or you could just...you know...put your money where your mouth is and use an operating system that doesn't do this. Instead of continuing to support MS and just *hoping* that they eventually do what you want, when they have shown absolutel8y no inclination to do.
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Windows 10 FaIl ? (Score:2)
Am I the only one who copy pasted the title to check if it includes "fail" with a funky PascalCase?
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Am I the only one who copy pasted the title to check if it includes "fail" with a funky PascalCase?
Nope. :)
The 'upgrade' I'm waiting for: (Score:2, Informative)
Also waiting for the 'Not an advertising platform' upgrade, and the 'Returns total control of your system to the owner/user' upgrade.
Ondrive files-on-demand don't work (Score:5, Interesting)
I never got the point of files-on-demand...
* if the file was big enough to be worth leaving off my laptop's SSD, like a 5mb photo or 30mb video, then the delay in loading it inside file explorer is by no means "seamless" - I have to wait a long time with frozen file-open dialogs while the file downloads. (I'm on Comcast cable)
* if the file is small enough for its download to be seamless, about 500k, then I might as well have left it on the SSD because it's so small.
* if my one drive is large enough for files-on-demand to be useful (which it is, at 700gb and loads of files) then windows spends five days just downloading metadata for all of them.
* if I need to work on a folder of photos, I basically have to tell onedrive to download the 1gb folder of photos, wait an indeterminate period of time (hours or days with no good indication of progress), then do my work.
* I used files-on-demand because space on my SSD was to limited, but it gave me no good control to free up space when I no longer needed the files local.
Well, that was my dismal experience with the previous iteration of demand before they abandoned it. I'll approach this one with an open mind.
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Your two use cases have a very one sided view:
1. Large file causing delay.
2. Small file not causing disk space issues.
You're leaving out some very relevant scenarios:
3. Large files accessed rarely enough that the delay isn't an issue.
4. A metric shitload of small files which together use a lot of disk space.
Sometimes the desire to sync can outweigh many issues. I have several folders which fall into scenario 3 and my main working folder well and truly falls into scenario 4.
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Your two use cases have a very one sided view:
1. Large file causing delay.
2. Small file not causing disk space issues.
You're leaving out some very relevant scenarios:
3. Large files accessed rarely enough that the delay isn't an issue.
4. A metric shitload of small files which together use a lot of disk space.
Sometimes the desire to sync can outweigh many issues. I have several folders which fall into scenario 3 and my main working folder well and truly falls into scenario 4.
I kind of covered those...
3. Large file accessed rarely enough? Of course delay isn't an issue, which is why I'm happy to navigate to the OneDrive website and download the file manually. It's a bit more clunky on the download side, but at least it gives me a solid progress indicator (much better than a "File>Open dialog that's frozen solid for an indeterminate length of time). And it gives me better accountability for when to delete the file after I'm done: I know where all my downloaded files are, which
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govt jobs (Score:1)
Clipboard? (Score:2)
I know Windows is pretty much garbage, but come on...even has had a clipboard since the Windows 1.0 days...
What I don't understand is: "you can access all your files in the cloud without having to download them and use storage space on your device."
So what, it downloads them to RAM only? That sounds just a bit dodgy. Hell, even the browser will cache things to disk. Is this just an outright lie?
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small wishlist (Score:1)
Name is too similar (Score:1)
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update? It looks WAY too much like the current Windows 10 FAIL Creators Update...
I don't exactly mean this as a troll... I'm one of the few still using a Windows phone (Lumia 950), partly because I love the hardware itself, partly because they got me into that "ecosystem" when I was working there and they gave me my first smartphone, a Windows Phone 7 device. So, I've stuck with it, but this latest update is pure FAIL. The OS (on mobile) has gone backwards in *nearly* every way p
ISPs will love this; over-quota surcharges (Score:2)
With your large files shuttling back-and-forth beteween MS and your PC, watch internet usage skyrocket.
Re:Windows 10 is loaded with spyware (Score:4, Funny)
Because it's the best spyware. Trust me. The biggest spyware. And believe me, I know my spyware. Classy, beautiful stuff. Everyone who has used Microsoft spyware has just loved it. I promise. Bigly. I get calls all the time telling me how much people just love Microsoft's spyware.
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Games run better on 7 across the board. "I have this problem, I run windows 10" is one of the most common complaints on steam, and patches are commonly openly stating that "fixed these problems on windows 10". Same games have a habit of running perfectly fine on 7 with no manifestation of win10-specific issues.
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Real desperation on part of MS shills. To cover stability and reliability problems, all they can do is shift discussion to performance.
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Performance is irrelevant is your game crashes consistently, or fails to start on one OS and is rock stable on another. Which is the case for many games to this date when it comes to win10 vs 7 and 8.
No matter how desperately you try to mask this.
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Because by merging their cloud with Explorer, the intent is that you'll just accidentally copy all your files over on to their servers.