Microsoft Kicks Off the Rollout of the Windows 10 May Update 1903 (zdnet.com) 77
It's technically "late May." So it's not too surprising that Microsoft's promised late May rollout of the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (also known as 1903) is kicking off today, May 21. From a report: As of today, mainstream consumer and business users who want to manually download and install the May feature update may do so. The May 2019 Update/1903 is available on WSUS, Windows Update for Business as of today. Users who aren't already on Windows 10 1809 (either because they weren't "offered" it or didn't proactively grab it) will be able to just skip over 1809 and go straight to 1903, since Windows 10 feature updates are cumulative.
There are a quite a number of new features in the May 2019 Update/1903. Microsoft is providing users -- including Home users -- with more control over how and when Windows 10 feature updates will install with this release. Microsoft is adding the ability for Home users to pause updates for up to 35 days.
There are a quite a number of new features in the May 2019 Update/1903. Microsoft is providing users -- including Home users -- with more control over how and when Windows 10 feature updates will install with this release. Microsoft is adding the ability for Home users to pause updates for up to 35 days.
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It's incredibly embarrassing to be reminded how we all acted on Slashdot in its early years.
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Why should a user waste time for this update?
Well, from TFA, it:
As well as a handful of other things. As far as whether those features warrant deploying it on day one of its release, that would depend on your use case and problem tolerance. Si
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Consistent UI? Into which direction the consistency goes?
Their direction is this: Consistency will finally be achieved when they complete their years-long crusade to remove every last iota of information that could possibly be used to discern which window on the display actually has focus.
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I would think you would find more relevant information in the divorce or homicide statistics.
Guaranteed anti-Microsoft comments incoming! (Score:1, Insightful)
There are so many anti-Microsoft people, you know that without any direct inspection or investigation, there will be hundreds saying how horrible Windows is, ignoring the quality of the new update. Honestly, at this point in time, Apple is more prone to being controlling than Microsoft, so no matter how your may feel about past behaviors, it may be time to just move past the past. You don't like Windows, then don't use it, and leave it at that.
Re: Guaranteed anti-Microsoft comments incoming! (Score:1)
And some of us are adults with jobs where we don't shit on a company because we find value in their products and services. Can't say the same for FOSS.
Re: Guaranteed anti-Microsoft comments incoming! (Score:1)
I personally remember the bad things MS did, however, they seem to be changing rapidly for the better. At the rate they are going it wonâ(TM)t be long until Microsoft have contributed Windows itself as open source.
When that day comes, Microsoft Windows could steal Linuxâ(TM) crown, as it has the legendary VMS design under the hood. Developers could easily extend the OS RPC, IPC, network and registry namespaces alongside scheduler improvements and end up with a superior alternative to Linux as it
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> ignoring the quality of the new update
Just to remind you - the last time they had an update it took them 6 months to deploy it (almost one month ago there was, with much fanfare, the announcement that 1809 has reached "wide adoption").
"1903", as in "the month of May", as in "21-May-2019", which is "end of May 2019", aka "06-2019", "1906".
It will well be months of news of fuckups - technical, legislative, social brought by this new upgrade. Months of juicy Schadenfreude here on Slashdot, and Microsoft d
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I installed 1809 day one and had zero problems and I'm far from the only one. People massively over hype any and all windows problems to the moon. It's to the point now where you have to take the negative news with more salt than the pr spin from microsoft. There is a very vocal group of people that just shit on anything microsoft does no matter what it is. Due to the constant noise they're making you can't believe anything you hear anymore. They have made communications about microsoft almost pointless.
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There are so many anti-Microsoft people, you know that without any direct inspection or investigation
My problem is not that people use Windows, it's that so many people are using it for crucial business practices and fail to realize it has serious fundamental flaws and thereby put large functions of society at risk.
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No.
Microsoft pissed away their good will with Windows 10. Windows 2000 / Windows 7 and Windows XP were all pretty nice operating systems. Especially 7, it was simple, reliable and when patched well, pretty good option.
Now they're too busy 'fiddling' with things, breaking stuff, no wonder people are pissed.
windows pro (Score:1)
Now I know why I wanted the pro version, it doesn't update automatically, I only do it, when I am feeling depressed and have nothing better to do...
Saves me lots of frustrations...
You can buy refurbed licenses of windows 10 pro, for around 25-30 euro's, it's only the license, but at least it's much cheaper than the home editions...
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Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Home are nearly identical.
Pro can join domains and Home can't.
Pro has the local group policy editor and Home doesn't, but you can make all the registry changes directly in Home.
That's it. Pro doesn't give you more control over anything.
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As an IT professional I use pro because I LOOOVe hyper-V. VMware Workstation was crap and is no longer actively developed since Dell bought it out :-(
Hyper-v is a type 1 hypervisor so no ugly drivers or complex resources. It runs the host or parent OS at near full native speeds as I can game with no loss in performance
Freebsd, pfsense, and Ubuntu all have hyper-V built directly into their kernels so no guest tools required.
Also more control over updates is nice as is container support and wsl (unsure if ho
More control? (Score:2)
Not good enough. I want full control:
1. Tell me updates are available.
2. Download updates when I decide.
3. Tell me updates have been downloaded.
4. Install updates when I decide.
5. Reboot when I decide.
Make automatic updates the default, fine. Make me jump through a hoop or two to accomplish this if I have to, but give me to ability to control updates like I could in Win7 without having to use third party tools. Until then, it's not good enough.
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Funny thing is I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum, yet I too found Windows 7 perfect. On Windows 7 and 10, I setup the automatic install time to 3am. With Windows 7, I would boot up the next day and the updates were installed. With Windows 10, I get a popup message at 7pm asking me if now is a good time to install updates. I click the button that says "schedule a time" an the time is already scheduled at 3am -- SO WHY DID IT PROMPT ME??? And what am I supposed to do since the setting I want is alr
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No thanks, you've* shown you can't be trusted.
That's you in the general you. Both the common folk who don't maintain their system and the system admins who actually used to advise common folk to turn of system updates.
Every time you've been given rope you chose to hang yourselves and others along with you, you can't be trusted with the rope.
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No thanks, you've* shown you can't be trusted. That's you in the general you. Both the common folk who don't maintain their system and the system admins who actually used to advise common folk to turn of system updates. Every time you've been given rope you chose to hang yourselves and others along with you, you can't be trusted with the rope.
If that was the actual problem Microsoft could have fixed it at any time by creating a setting with only security patches that didn't fuck with anything else. They pushed a lot of things that weren't important to the customer as important and caused this problem to have a straw man for taking away the choice completely. Microsoft's problem was not that we didn't apply security patches. Their problem was that we didn't like Vista and we had a choice. We didn't like Win8 and we had a choice. We even got to pi
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If that was the actual problem Microsoft could have fixed it at any time by creating a setting with only security patches that didn't fuck with anything else.
They did. There's a different mechanism and approach to send security updates to feature updates. The problem then is if you don't mandate feature updates you end up with fragmented system making it difficult to produce security updates.
Case in point, I didn't get 1809 and I haven't done any silly hacks to prevent windows update.
People were happy to run 5-10 year old Windows releases, who really asked for updates twice a year?
People were happy to ride horses around as well before the car hit the market. Guess what, times have changed. MS isn't the first mover here, they are the last. Perpetual updates st
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Download size? (Score:2)
As the summary says Win10's updates are cumulative. Just how big IS this download by now?
Oh yawn, just another mess that will need fixing (Score:1)
I am never been impressed with any of the feature upgrades. I have been annoyed and sometimes mad when they have broken stuff. I don't hate Windows 10, but at the same time I thought Windows 7 was a much better thought out release. The cadence for Windows 10 is all wrong, its too fast, has too many glitches and doesn't make up for that with important features.
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Does this fix the directory size problem? (Score:2)