Windows 10

RumRat

Nothing is really known about Redstone yet. It may be related to Windows Server 2016 as far as anyone knows. Anything would be pure guesswork at this stage. Best guess would be to add support for devices that don't exist at the moment.....So that would make sense, maybe. Whatever happens it won't be a 'Service pack'.

gjchester

RumRat wrote: »

The point is that W10 will negate the need for Service packs. As you say, they were meant to deliver bundles of patches that accumulated over time as improvements to the OS. W10 will be continually updated on a regular basis.
Home users will not have the option to not have the updates as they are rolled out, so, no Service packs will be required.

I understand what you are saying but lets say 5 years in the future I rebuild my machine with the factory image (be that from media or a hard disk partition). Asking the home user to download and update 5 years of patches is a lot of patches.


Small IT shops may have the need to do the same, to quickly bring freshly built system up to date, people with low speed broadband will have issues. Corporations will probably slipstream a lot in at build time but installing 1 monster patch has to be faster than slipstreaming lets say 200 patches all with there own rebuilt and dependency issues.


I suspect there will be some mega patch released from time to time that's going to do a lot of upgrades in one go, it may not be called a service pack but it will do the same thing.

RumRat

gjchester wrote: »

I understand what you are saying but lets say 5 years in the future I rebuild my machine with the factory image (be that from media or a hard disk partition). Asking the home user to download and update 5 years of patches is a lot of patches.


Small IT shops may have the need to do the same, to quickly bring freshly built system up to date, people with low speed broadband will have issues. Corporations will probably slipstream a lot in at build time but installing 1 monster patch has to be faster than slipstreaming lets say 200 patches all with there own rebuilt and dependency issues.


I suspect there will be some mega patch released from time to time that's going to do a lot of upgrades in one go, it may not be called a service pack but it will do the same thing.

Corporations and Home users are being treated differently when it comes to updates.
How your scenario would pan out I don't know, but, maybe, that's where you will hit a problem with the supported lifetime of the device. SP's were designed to provide support for new types of hardware as much as anything else.
If it helps people to call anything that may or may not happen a Service pack, then it matters little really.
Only time will tell and MS are not saying anything. We should revisit this in 18 months time to see how it evolves...;)

fermi

Well, that was painless. Boot into Windows, install all updates, reboot, up pops the icon, update reserved.

forgotmyname

Is there anything better in windows 10 than windows 7?

Ive been playing and it seems just silly. With tiles I still think its should be a touch screen to make proper use of them.

Is it just a move to change the name programs to apps? Is it me or does their project Spartan look a lot like firefox? Well it looked like firefox until i change firefox back to its classis theme.

RumRat

forgotmyname wrote: »

Is there anything better in windows 10 than windows 7?

Ive been playing and it seems just silly. With tiles I still think its should be a touch screen to make proper use of them.

Is it just a move to change the name programs to apps? Is it me or does their project Spartan look a lot like firefox? Well it looked like firefox until i change firefox back to its classis theme.

Yes it is better, as W8.1 was better.
Project Spartan will become Edge browser and is not fully developed yet.
Best stop playing with it and search around for how to use it properly. You have the insider development version, so, you can feedback to MS and help with development.

custardy

forgotmyname wrote: »

Is there anything better in windows 10 than windows 7?

Ive been playing and it seems just silly. With tiles I still think its should be a touch screen to make proper use of them.

Is it just a move to change the name programs to apps? Is it me or does their project Spartan look a lot like firefox? Well it looked like firefox until i change firefox back to its classis theme.

buy a touch screen then?

giraffe69

Breaking news. Microsoft will charge £200 for Windows 10. It will be compulsory. Machines will lock unless updates are done but they will offer the option of a free downgrade to Windows 3.1

Will some people be a bit happier now?

S0litaire

giraffe69 wrote: »

Breaking news. Microsoft will charge £200 for Windows 10. It will be compulsory. Machines will lock unless updates are done but they will offer the option of a free downgrade to Windows 3.1

Will some people be a bit happier now?

nope!

I want a downgrade to Windows 3.11 for workgroups! ;P lol

RumRat

giraffe69 wrote: »

Breaking news. Microsoft will charge £200 for Windows 10. It will be compulsory. Machines will lock unless updates are done but they will offer the option of a free downgrade to Windows 3.1

Will some people be a bit happier now?

Some people are only happy when they are complaining, even when they don't have anything to complain about.