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To: dayglored
I like the OS but the changeover to quarterly major upgrades has been a disaster due to consistently poor testing and QA. The Windows Insider program was supposed to help this by placing prototypes in the hands of a population more diverse than that of the test labs but it did not appear to turn this one up. If I were Microsoft I'd be thinking about changing the entire paradigm of taking major portions of their user population through trauma four times a year - yes, the old system of monthly patching was cumbersome but it didn't require gigabyte-sized downloads and so many changes all at once that they're impossible to isolate, and if a bad one turned up - it happens - it could be rolled back individually.

I was on a tightly metered connection for about a year and four times a year I would have to decide which of my (then) four computers I could allow to talk to the Internet at all, lest they be hijacked by the mandatory update process and my monthly allowance used up in a single download. Allowing the user to say No to this (it's in networks/metered connections) only means that the user will be running without a possibly vital security update. This system simply isn't flexible enough and it ought to be redesigned from the ground up. IMHO.

17 posted on 10/09/2018 11:19:40 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
> ...If I were Microsoft I'd be thinking about changing the entire paradigm of taking major portions of their user population through trauma four times a year - yes, the old system of monthly patching was cumbersome but it didn't require gigabyte-sized downloads and so many changes all at once that they're impossible to isolate, and if a bad one turned up - it happens - it could be rolled back individually. ...

My theory on that is that something in the Windows 10 architecture doesn't allow the partial/incremental updates that we (*cough*) enjoyed with earlier versions of the OS.

I would not be surprised if they did something in how Win10 works, such that they HAVE to release these huge "replacements" instead of "patches". But that's speculation on my part.

21 posted on 10/09/2018 11:33:52 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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