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Posted on 04/01/2019 7:58:02 AM PDT by dayglored
Only took five months, and look, 19H1's almost here
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 1809, aka the Update of the Damned, is now ready for "broad deployment."
The announcement – which comes mere weeks before the next version of Windows 10, 19H1, is expected to put in an appearance – means that the Operating System update is ready to be unleashed on businesses.
Handy, because so far only the most ardent of Windows fans could describe the adoption figures of the disastrous update as anything better than flaccid. 1809, which Microsoft named the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, memorably debuted during a Surface event at the beginning of October before being unceremoniously pulled a few days later amid some distressing quality issues.
The update was quietly re-released in November and has been gradually plip-plopping onto compatible Windows 10 machines ever since. While Microsoft has kept schtum about just how many installations now have the update, estimates hover around the 26 per cent mark.
A far cry from the hysterical rate at which the April 2018 Update was emitted.
As of yesterday, the release is now on the Semi-Annual Channel (SAC), having been on the soon-to-be-culled Semi-Annual-Channel (Targeted) since November last year. According to Microsoft, customers should "begin deployment of each SAC release immediately to devices selected for early adoption and ramp up to full deployment at your discretion".
So start your engines. However, be sure to take a good, hard look at the support notes. There are a few issues even in the most recently patched version, bedevilling Internet Explorer 11 and systems with multiple audio devices. For the latter, Microsoft has said it is working on a fix to "be available in late March 2019".
Only a couple of days to go, team, so no pressure.
The most recent releases to the SAC have usually occurred three months or so before the next update. For this one it could be a matter of weeks. ®
Win10-1809 has been like that... so we sure are glad THAT one has finally made its way out.
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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Windows-10-version-1809-designated-for-broad-deployment/ba-p/389540
Got sick of Windows a few months ago and pulled out a 6 year old laptop with a crashed hd and replaced it iuth a 240 gb SS hd and loaded Linux Mint. It is 5 years older than my Windows laptop and runs 4 times faster.
Your kidney stone analogy would work as long as the NSA got to listen in on every grunt, groan, weep and wail. :-(
Yep, that is definitely the way to go!
The releases of MS Windows and accompanying articles like this chronicling the disasters and pain are pathetic.
Apple releases major updates to their OS and they almost always go smoothly with none of these hiccups. They just install and run, no fuss, no muss.
Are we sure it’s over yet? Or is this update going to open a new whole can of worms?
That’s because just like Linux, it is Unix under the hood. :)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/is-mac-os-x-unix
Yeah, doing a memory stick Linux try on an old laptop, and then swapping in a SSD and doing a permanent install, is on my to-do list.
Yep, that is the truth. Cannot argue that.
As I get older, I have zero patience for stuff that doesn’t work.
It's pretty unfortunate. As keeper of the Windows Ping List I long for positive articles to post about what's going on in the Windows world. Alas, nearly all the positive ones are just marketing blurbs with dubious accuracy. There are very few useful, much less technical, articles that aren't about the problems.
> Apple releases major updates to their OS and they almost always go smoothly with none of these hiccups. They just install and run, no fuss, no muss.
That's true, but you must bear in mind that Apple has a much more restricted and well-defined environment to deploy into. They control the hardware, and they control most of the applications that most of their users use. They have a much saner world. They also have a much smaller installed base, like a tenth as much as Windows.
A better analogy would be Linux, where there are scores of different distros, running on God-only-knows what kinds of miscellaneous hardware, very much like the Windows world.
Linux releases major updates to the kernel with typically negligible hiccups. But the various distros do their own thing -- some are conservative and stable, like RedHat; others are bleeding-edge adventurous. Not surprisingly, the latter generate the most complaints about incompatibilities and breakage. Read up on "systemd" some time.
Apple is a special case due to their heavy-handed approach to what is permitted. Mind you, I use a Mac as my primary machine at home, supported and expanded with Windows and Linux VMs. I ain't knocking it; it's a great environment as long as you play by Apple's rules.
"Over"? No, it's not over. But it will fade. Ya know how the Leftist Media release a flashy news story to push another one out of the headlines that they want you to forget about? Like Smollett's weird release pushed the Mueller Report out?
I suspect the 2019 Spring Update (19H1) is gonna be like that. "Alright, let's forget all about 1809, shall we?"
As for 19H1 opening a new can of worms, well yeah, that's the way I'd bet. But then, I think it's better to be pleased by something that unexpectedly works, then to be disappointed by something that unexpectedly breaks.
Which is precisely why I bought into their ecosystem knowing it was under control to prevent that sort of chaos.
Can you imagine your car maker NOT controlling both the hardware and software? You'd never get your car started.
Yep, Microsoft screwed the pooch with that one. I believe that one of the primary goals of the “update” was to salvage the Edge browser. Yet despite the cheers from Linux and Apple bleachers Windows will continue to plug away and Microsoft will continue to maintain their market share. Many of us have a large investment in time and money in Windows based applications that have no good alternatives on other platforms. And if you visit a large retailer like Costco 80% or more of the laptops and desktops they sell still have Microsoft operating systems.
“But then, I think it’s better to be pleased by something that unexpectedly works, then to be disappointed by something that unexpectedly breaks.”
That makes sense. The problem with gambling is that it is stressful... :)
I have to pick a nit with you on that statement.
MacOS is built on a foundation of FreeBSD Unix. That's because MacOS/OS-X is based on NeXTSTEP, the Unix-based operating system Steve Jobs brought to Apple when he returned to power in the late 1990's.
So it's fair to say that MacOS is "Unix under the hood". However, all of what users interact with are layers on top of that foundation, and while they benefit from the stability and security of the FreeBSD Unix foundation, they bring their own vulnerabilities to the party.
Linux, or more properly "GNU/Linux", on the other hand, is very specifically NOT UNIX. It contains precisely ZERO UNIX code. By careful design.
The GNU operating system was developed to be a Unix "work-alike", but without using a single line of actual Unix code. The Linux kernel was developed because the GNU kernel (Hurd) never got working right. What we call "Linux" today has no Unix whatsoever in it. It more or less looks, acts, and works, like Unix, but with many significant differences.
I.e. Linux is most definitely NOT "Unix under the hood".
You will like it. :)
I stand corrected then... I read this yesterday and it is the source of my assertion.
https://www.lifewire.com/mac-os-x-is-not-linux-distribution-2204744
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