Going by what we've seen, the general public should expect a new build of Windows 10 about once or twice a year. The OS launched on July 29th of last year, and it received its first update on November 12th. The next one is called Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, which launches on… July August 2nd. Thankfully, it's not a wedding anniversary, otherwise Microsoft would be sleeping outside for a couple of nights.
The cake is a… oh never mind.
I'm kidding about the date of course. Honestly, with the state that Windows 10 has been in lately, I'm glad that Microsoft decided to take the extra handful of days for a little extra quality control, rather than push the update a few days early. At the same time, though, it is interesting that Microsoft's Get Windows 10 initiative wants people to update to build 10586, and then update again to whatever build number this ends up being. You would think that they would extend the free offer until at least a few days after they release their latest, and presumably best in their eyes, version. Yes, it does feel odd to point out an area where Microsoft should be more aggressive with their free update promotion.
In terms of what's different, the Anniversary Update makes a handful of nice changes across a wide variety of areas. The desktop clock will now be available on any taskbar. Microsoft Edge, which receives its updates with new Windows builds, will receive extension support and a bunch of new Web APIs. They also updated the Japanese IME, which is used to input Japanese characters without a dedicated Japanese keyboard. I'm also interested in the new dark theme.
Windows 10 Anniversary will arrive on August 2nd.
I am not letting Microsoft
I am not letting Microsoft near my PC. After wasting hunderds of hours with Windows 10, I came to the conclusion that Windows 10 is useless for my Dell XPS-8700 machine.
My PC is working perfectly without a sigle issue. Now I am running Manjaro Gnome 3.20.2/Cinnamon/LXQt/KDE/Deepin. That is 5 didfferent desktops all running Linux kernel 4.5.X or 4.6.2.
I never game. I still have Windows 8.1, but I rarely use it.
I am very happy to keep Microsoft out of my PC.
No license, no id verification, no virus and a trouble free PC experience.
How many Win 10 users can say that? Very few, indeed.
” You would think that they
” You would think that they would extend the free offer until at least a few days after they release their latest, and presumably best in their eyes, version. ”
Maybe they want people to upgrade first before people start digging through Anniversary update. After all we found all the most “interesting” stuff about W10 after it released.
Same with UWP limitations which weren’t widely known (or at all) before Rise of Tomb Rider release.
I have spent many hours in
I have spent many hours in testing many Windows 10 builds including 10240 and 10586. During this time, I have got the message.
“Your PC ran into problems and needs to restart…” many times.
I say it again Windows 10 is a ruined product. No one really needs defective Windows 10 OS.
Windows 10 collects tremendous amount of data for Microsoft to sell to the advertisers. It spies on you. It deletes the 3rd party apps. It changes the default apps. It is just an annoying piece of junk.
After wiping my PC of Windows 10 junk, I have not experienced a single issue. I have half-a-dozen OSes on my PC.
Microsoft thinks closing a window means you accept the windows content. In my opinion, Microsoft will leave the OS business in less than 10 years.
I am not touching Windows 10 anniversary update. I have had enough of Windows 10 nuisance.
This is my last comment on Windows 10.