Posted on 06/21/2016 5:38:44 AM PDT by dayglored
This summer, one year after the initial launch of Windows 10, Microsoft will release its first major update: the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. It will be delivered in the usual way -- via Windows Update -- and will install automatically on its own.
However, if you're curious (or apprehensive) about the upcoming update, you don't have to wait until the final release date to check it out. Microsoft has been releasing public preview builds, each one a little bit closer to the final version. Anyone can get and install those builds by first becoming part of Microsoft's Windows Insider Program, then joining what's called the Fast Ring.
Want to keep track of what builds are available when? What follows is a list of every preview build of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, starting with the most recent and going back to the beginning of the year. For each build, we've included the date of its release and a link to Microsoft's announcement about it. Also included are links to Computerworld's reviews of the major builds.
[ list of Win10 builds at article with descriptions ]
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
No, but spend 50$ for some 64gig flash drives for heavens sake, and back em up!
What the heck IS that??
Screenshot of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie.
This is how democrats are made.
Windoz, the ultimate root kit.
>> OTH, my data would bore them to death
ditto
I upgraded a Windows 8 Laptop to 8.1 and then when 10 became available I updated it to 10. It is a 4th gen i5 with 8gb of RAM and a 500gb hybrid drive. System boots in <20 seconds. I have some older systems I upgraded from Windows 7, they all boot faster than they did in 7. This is the first time I’ve heard complaints about slow boots. One thing is when it is finishing updates sometimes parts happen in the background and do slow down start up.
About 30 years ago, I started computing on a Commodore 64. Then I moved on to an HP 150 running MSDOS 2.11 (It was a touchscreen computer in 1984), HP Vectra with MSDOS 3.1 then Windows 3.0.
I’ve used Windows 3.1, Windows NT 4.0, Windows for Workstations, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows Millenium, Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and finally Windows 10.
I’ve also been the HP-UX CAD administrator for our engineering dept ME-10 workstations.
I’ve used LInux Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, Zorin, Android-x86, elementary os, etc, etc.
I currently have a couple of Android phones and tablet. I really enjoy using those. I also have an old Iphone 4 that will only use IOS 7.
In my limited experience with Apple, I don’t really like its closed, confining aspects.
I am currently trying out Cub Linux (Chromebook clone) and CloudReady (Chromebook clone) operating systems. I enjoy them so much, I just purchased a used Dell Chromebox 3010.
So I’ve gone from complicated operating systems to simple. I really enjoy just surfing the net on Chrome OS.
Unless you gathered sand, made it into silicon chips, wrote the firmware for to run the hardware below the Windows 10 operating system, how do you know what possible backdoors are in the HARDWARE in you computer are doing. What info is the HARDWARE gathering about you and sending to God knows who? Nothing about computing is really secure. You only assume it is. You don’t really know. Various governments of the world have had their hands in the mix since the beginning. Don’t forget that. Nothing is really secure.
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