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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and mixed reality headsets available today; Surface Book 2 (tr)
The Windows Blog ^ | Oct 17, 2017 | Yusuf Mehdi

Posted on 10/17/2017 2:45:06 PM PDT by dayglored

Caveat: This is a Microsoft Marketing Announcement of Windows 10 Version 1709 "Fall Creators Update".

This update __WILL__ be pushed out to ALL Windows 10 users, so those of you who run Win10 should pay attention because your computing experience is about to change.

"Today, we deliver the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update offering breakthroughs in creativity – from bringing mixed reality and 3D to the masses, to faster broadcasting for gaming, to turning photos and videos into real memories, and so much more. The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update can be experienced on a wide variety of Windows 10 PCs and on a range of Windows Mixed Reality headsets available for the first time today. We believe the PC is the ultimate canvas for creativity and can empower people to create like never before. This is why we are building Surface to be the ultimate laptop and are delighted to introduce the Surface Book 2, the most powerful Surface yet."
(Aren't you glad I excerpted this?)

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.windows.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: creatorsupdate; windows10; windowspinglist; windowsupdate
Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger.
1 posted on 10/17/2017 2:45:07 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

2 posted on 10/17/2017 2:45:38 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Just when i get everything organized and running smoothly on Windows 10.....................


3 posted on 10/17/2017 2:51:39 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: dayglored

around here, messengers are the first to go.


4 posted on 10/17/2017 2:56:06 PM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: dayglored

I bought a Win Sarface Book. It has Win 10S.

I was able to do nothing. I mean NOTHING. For a mere $200 they said I could get Win 10 Pro.

I sent their $2,000 laptop back to them.

Smart, MS — smart.


5 posted on 10/17/2017 2:58:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (ALL records destroyed/faked, books rewritten, statues renamed, dates altered and more.../1984)
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To: Red Badger

It should not unorganized you. Updated two of my laptops over the weekend.


6 posted on 10/17/2017 2:58:52 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: dayglored

Thanks for starting this thread.

It took over two hours for this and the flash update to download and install.

I am not sure what all is changing but I did check to make sure various items I had turned off stay off.

I have noticed my FireFox browser is a little slower.


7 posted on 10/17/2017 3:08:47 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: stylin19a

Dang I was afraid of that


8 posted on 10/17/2017 3:09:25 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Three freakin hours later and its FINALLY done downloading on my laptop, its installing now, then desktop


9 posted on 10/17/2017 3:24:28 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: UB355

Mine got updated earlier this week. Now it cannot come out of sleep mode without screwing up the screen driver, so that I have to power it off.

Thanks for screwing me up, MS.

And by the way, I have also noticed that things are definitely slower, especially on VPN.

I am just about done with MS. This will be my last windows computer.


10 posted on 10/17/2017 3:44:35 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: LaRueLaDue

#10 I have had 2 calls about the Surface Pro going to sleep. We went into the Power options to change settings. I have my new Windows 10 desktop here at work. I had already made those changes a month ago. When I walked the caller thru making changes I noticed some of my settings had reverted back. Sneaky they are.


11 posted on 10/17/2017 4:44:34 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Best to keep ‘Doze in a VirtualBox...


12 posted on 10/17/2017 4:57:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: LaRueLaDue

my install seems good so far


13 posted on 10/17/2017 5:54:56 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: freedumb2003

You were supposed to be able to convert for free. What happened?


14 posted on 10/17/2017 6:30:46 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Excellence

>>What happened?<<

Misogyny, silly!

That aside, I don’t know. Later Best Buy (where I bought the replacement — better and cheaper BTW) said they have a free upgrade to Pro option.

It all worked out OK. All the new non-Apple devices are standardizing on USB-C (including the new HP Spectre laptop which has normal and USB-C). Except the Surface series.

I have the older Surface before MS went nuts and live it but the one USB and DisplayPort only are a small PIA.

Note: I have seen Win 10S compared to Windows RT. Wrong, It is worse (and dumber) than Windows ME!


15 posted on 10/18/2017 4:11:05 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (ALL records destroyed/faked, books rewritten, statues renamed, dates altered and more.../1984)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
> Three freakin hours later and its FINALLY done downloading on my laptop, its installing now, then desktop

My Win10 VM decided to start the upgrade at 11pm (EDT) last night. I babysat it for a while and then crashed out on the sofa. It finally finished around 3am.

Sheesh.

16 posted on 10/18/2017 6:09:35 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Excellence
> You were supposed to be able to convert for free. What happened?

That was a short-term marketing "loss-leader" offer. For some machines upgrading was $50 for a while, I think. "Butt Now You Vil Pay!"

17 posted on 10/18/2017 6:11:56 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
From https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/windows-10-fall-creators-update-lots-of-small-changes-and-maybe-the-revolution/

As with the Creators Update earlier this year, the Windows Update deployment will be slow to start off with. After a spate of issues around the Anniversary Update, which shipped in 2016, Microsoft took a more measured approach with the Creators Update. It took about five months for the previous update to reach two-thirds of machines, as the company rolled the operating system out first to systems known to be compatible, then expanded its reach to an ever larger range of hardware and software, and finally opened the floodgates and offered it to (almost) any Windows 10 machine.

I'll be glad to wait until the dust settles.

18 posted on 10/18/2017 6:20:57 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dayglored

It must have been a promo. What a stinky thing to do.


19 posted on 10/18/2017 5:27:05 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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