Posted on 11/17/2020 8:38:04 AM PST by dayglored
Don't expect any Windows 10 preview updates in December due to holidays, says Microsoft.
Microsoft has told Windows 10 owners and IT admins not to expect any Windows 10 preview updates in December to give them a break when staffing levels are low over the holiday season.
December will be a break from the usual schedule of Windows 10 updates each month, which include optional previews that arrive after the mandatory Patch Tuesday security updates in the second week of every month.
"Because of minimal operations during the holidays and the upcoming Western new year, there won't be any preview releases for the month of December 2020," Microsoft said in a support note.
The company will resume monthly servicing with the January 2021 security releases, it said.
[More details and explanation at the ZDNet link]
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I run Apple hardware, with Windows and Linux VMs (virtual machines) running under VMware Fusion. The Mac’s TimeMachine takes hourly incremental backups for a day; keeps daily backups for a month; keeps weekly backups for all previous months. When the backup disk starts to fill up, it removes the oldest backups. All automatically without thinking about it.
My Surface Pro 3 does not successfully install 2004. Stops at 61%, a known issue. So wait 3-5 hours. Still no go. Not up for a clean install yet.
Back that azz up! I learned the hard way to use multiple back-up programs, not just the OS-supplied solution, because those have let me down far more than Third Party software.
I’ve been transitioning to Linux Mint for the last few weeks and so far it’s been worth the effort. A Windows update taking over 18 hours provided sufficient motivation. “$ sudo apt-get kiyay, mother plucker!”
On Linux, a combination of dump, tar, and rsync give me very nice "within the VM" backups. From time to time, and before any major upgrades, I make a complete copy of the VM itself.
Of course before any release upgrade I take a complete VM copy; but frankly, having backups of all my Linux data, it's more rewarding to just set the old VM aside, and spin up a fresh VM with the new release, copy my data into it, and rock-n-roll.
So it’s not just “WINE bottle” where one can encapsulate data and secure it from unfortunate occurrences...cool. Haven’t got far into it yet but good to know there’s a method beyond blind trust in the OS (which is pretty damn overkill as it is). Thanks again.
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