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Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Windows 10 November 2019 Update (venturebeat.com) 42

Posted by msmash from the new-os-updates dept.
Microsoft today started rolling out the free Windows 10 November 2019 Update. For those keeping track, this update is Windows 10 build 18363 and will bring Windows 10 to version 1909. From a report: The Windows 10 November 2019 Update (version 1909) is odd because it shares the same Cumulative Update packages as the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903). That means version 1909 will be delivered more quickly to version 1903 users -- it will install like a monthly security update. The build number will barely change: from build 18362 to build 18363. If two computers have the same servicing content, the build revision number should match: 18362.xxx and 18363.xxx. For developers, this means a new Windows SDK will not be issued in conjunction with this version of Windows (there aren't any new APIs).

Again, the Windows 10 November 2019 Update is not a typical release. It's a much smaller update, though it is still worth getting. Windows 10 version 1909 brings improvements to Windows containers, inking latency, and password recovery. User-facing features include letting third-party digital assistants to voice activate above the Lock screen, being able to create events straight from the Calendar flyout on the Taskbar, and displaying OneDrive content in the File Explorer search box. You may also notice some changes to notification management, better performance and reliability on certain CPUs, and battery life and power efficiency improvements.
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  • edge and delays (Score:5, Informative)

    by binarybum ( 468664 ) on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:09PM (#59408130) Homepage

    You may also notice annoying notices to restart, an especially slow restart process, and the reappearance of the edge icon in your taskbar that you have already removed 15 times. Beyond that you will not likely notice much else other than less hard drive space.

    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by 110010001000 ( 697113 )

      I won't notice any of those things, because I only use AmigaOS.

    • People bother to remove Edge? I figured it was like the "remove IE" option that just deletes the shortcut to the launcher.

      • Thanks to European anti-trust settlement Edge is not part of core-os and can be completely removed. There is a separate web-engine (which is the same as the one used by Edge) which can't be removed thou as it is required by the sandboxed windows apps

        • There is a separate web-engine (which is the same as the one used by Edge) which can't be removed

          Just like a drug dealer, the first "taste" is free then you pay and pay and pay and pay...

    • and the reappearance of the edge icon in your taskbar that you have already removed 15 times

      I'm genuinely curious who these people are who end up with an edge icon magically appear on their taskbar. Do EU customer protection laws insulate us from this stuff or do people like you make this shit up?

      • It's just people who've pirated the enterprise version without the default group policy fixed. Probably. My vanilla install did it for a while till I joined corp domain and the admin tools pushed out a patch to remove it via group policy anyway.

    • ...and Windows 10 users everywhere start spending hours figuring out and rolling back all the pointless and idiotic crap that's in the latest update.

      So it goes.

      • True. Unfortunately the only improvement worthy of note on this one is making the scheduler "preferred core" aware. Thankfully it is a pretty good one, Since performance can vary wildly among cores (especially Ryzen 3) this can provide a pretty good speed bump to many apps, especially ones that do most of the heavy lifting in 1 or 2 threads
      • That's what login scripts are for.

  • Link is wrong. (Score:3)

    by El Jynx ( 548908 ) on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:26PM (#59408182)
    n/t

    • Microsoft today started rolling out the free Windows 10 November 2019 Update

      Yup. Windows 10 updates are free, like herpes and gonorrhea.

  • Link Trolling (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Nothing2Chere ( 1434973 ) on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:28PM (#59408190)
    Link trolling is when you post a summary article about a MS OS release, but link to an article about MAC OS release.

    n2chere

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Khyber ( 864651 )

      Yup, despite the article itself, the bug in windows still exists.

      So /. editors don't have a fucking clue about the OS they're reporting on primarily given the article content, but they don't have a fucking clue to start with.

      @BeauHD, @msmash, what's your fucking excuse?

      Bear in mind I've still got your takeover documents in e-mail because you fucked up on your e-mail system and sent me a copy, thinking I was a contributing member of the board instead of a regular user. I'm more than happy to tell /. how you

      • Yup, despite the article itself, the bug in windows still exists.

        MacOS isn't a bug in Windows. It's a standalone bug itself.

      • Khyber [slashdot.org]: “Yup, despite the article itself, the bug in windows still exists.

        So /. editors don't have a fucking clue about the OS they're reporting on primarily given the article content, but they don't have a fucking clue to start with.

        @BeauHD, @msmash, what's your fucking excuse?

        Bear in mind I've still got your takeover documents in e-mail because you fucked up on your e-mail system and sent me a copy, thinking I was a contributing member of the board instead of a regular user. I'm more than h

  • Don't use Win 10, not trolling but (Score:4, Insightful)

    by OffTheLip ( 636691 ) on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#59408202)
    are all releases buggy? Every time one of these releases are announced I read more negative comments followed by rationalizations for why the problems exist. This is a mature OS company, right?

    • Yes all releases are buggy. It is a mature OS company, one that tests releases on consumers but gives the option to said consumers to delay these updates by up to a year before they are ready.

      It's a setting in windows, kind of like those who apt-get dist-upgrade on day 1 and then find they can't resolve a bug no one else seems to have on a forum since they are the only one crazy to rush blindly into every new shiny thing.

      Welcome to IT. It pays *not* to be an early adopter, of anything. MS is not unique in t

      • MS doesn't control the hardware ecosystem the way Apple does. As such it is impossible to test every possible hardware configuration out there. It is a problem that's not unfamiliar to Linux users. While MS doesn't allow no Corporate edition users to delay updates more then a few weeks, If they flag a certain hardware or configuration as incompatible, the update will not even show up.

        • Most of the problems I've seen with Windows are design issues, and hardware compatibility has nothing to do with that stuff. It's not like the decision to pre-install Candy Crush by default was because of errata in a Realtek chip.

          For Linux, the same applies. I really wish fans would stop using "wifi drivers" as a catch-all excuse in the Linux community, and start putting more pressure on the developers to just... you know, not do stupid shit.

          • No sorry, few people care about that stuff. There are deep os level problems with Windows releases, e.g. updates deleting the documents folder for certain users.

        • That excuse became invalid when their releases started screwing up their Surface devices.

          Also you're wrong, non corporate customers can delay feature updates for up to a year.

    • are all releases buggy? Every time one of these releases are announced I read more negative comments followed by rationalizations for why the problems exist. This is a mature OS company, right?

      First question yes. Second question, ya gotta define mature, but mostly no.

  • You can bypass the lock screen with this stupid shit.

    Disabled my cameras and such, Windows unlocked with my Husband's voice instead of mine.

    You're a fucking fool to think this will keep you secure in any form.

    • They've also reportedly made 'password recovery' easier.

      Now, I'm assuming that's your 'Microsoft Password' that you were urged to make instead of a local Windows password.

      • I'm hoping we finally have the group policy for disabling password recovery questions. We are in a corporate environment, there is no need for "security" questions (you know, the ones you can find the answer to on Facebook).
        About a year ago a Microsoft employee blogged on how some insider editions of Windows had a group policy setting added to disable these questions.
        I tweeted to the author, asking why the group policy didn't exist from the moment they forced security questions on us (it was only recently)

  • I was getting tired of reinstalling the whole damned operating system every 6 months (and having all my defaults reset to recommended Microsoft products). It takes me a half-an-hour just to unscrew up all the configs they change back to default in a "feature update."

  • Oh joy, another infamous update from your increasingly abusive OS vendor/captor. See, they really must have your best interests in heart, despite hijacking your OS, your personal computer, and possibly your essential life details. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] )

  • is Windows 11 coming out?

    Until then I will stick with 7

  • Microsoft today started rolling out the free Windows 10 November 2019 Update [venturebeat.com]. [sic]

    Was "not free" ever an option?

    (And why is TFL in TFS a link to an article about Apple Airpods?)

  • ... and so far none of the bad stuff the trolls predicted has occurred. The tester laptop and the POS tablet/2-in-1 got their 1903 cumulative update (took longer than average) then I did the (listed as "optional") 1909. Installed very quickly; the only thing different from a normal cumulative update was a double restart. Haven't tested any of the new "features" because I don't need/use them. All I can say is that, initially, nothing seems to have changed from 1903.

    Oh yes: Edge did not reappear on the deskto

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