Microsoft rushes out latest Windows 10 build. 300 fixes? Pff, whatever

"A day later, they release build 10159 with 300 fixes."

Presumably none of which were considered sgnificant enough to stop releasing a new alpha build...

"They must have known about these issues in order to fix them so quickly,"

There will likely still be thousands of improvements and fixes in progress at this stage in the build process. This will ramp down as they approach RTM.

"and at least some of them must have been significant enough to justify releasing another build so soon."

No, the justification for releasing a new build is not problems with the previous one, but that the new build is ready for testing with no show stopping issues...Going forwards we may well commonly see daily builds released to Fast Ring testers...

No significant issues

So, they release build 10158 saying it has "no significant known issues". A day later, they release build 10159 with 300 fixes. They must have known about these issues in order to fix them so quickly, and at least some of them must have been significant enough to justify releasing another build so soon.

It simply depends on perspective what "significant issue" means.

From our perspective, anything that can hand over our data to anyone who would like to have it is considered significant, so we would consider security features important.

From Microsoft's perspective, "significant issue" means anything that stops them foisting it on us. You may have picked up over 30 years of delivering crud that quality and security don't really feature as "significant" at Microsoft other than in the marketing department.

This sort of disingenuity is why a lot of us don't trust Microsoft.

Oh, it is but one of many, many reasons..

Re: Absolute Morons

Mage,

I think you need to get out more :)

Re: Absolute Morons

"5) Aero Stupdity and down grading existing GDI APIs in Vista. Win7 should have been free, only a SP."

OTOH there's someone here who keeps insisting that W10 not having Aero is a problem.

Shut up, then?

Re: Old is new

You omitted W8...

Re: Dear Microsoft

Ach, come off it. My free time and my devices are mine; with which I can do what I like.

If I enjoy trying to make a new piece of software fall over, or am happy to be the canary for a particular set-up, or like watching software develop over a number of versions, or like to be able to talk for myself about what a preview behaves like rather than parroting preview articles, then so be it.

(If I go "tweeting" about it, or try to pretend that I'm an "influencer", then do feel free to remind me to have a word with myself...)

Given the ease with which a device manufacturer can knock together a dodgy driver revision a user will never update, and the proliferation of naff devices, and the number of proprietary, closed source, and mission-critical pieces of application code out there, the idea of having a huge QA and test lab representative of any user machine out there is patently ridiculous. Opening testing out to the users does seem to be the only logical solution. Perhaps you'd be happier if each volunteer tester was slipped a fiver for each unique bug they found?

Re: Every time...

I've never been able to understand how the user experience teams manage to keep coming up with ways to make things more annoying and less convenient, this must be their truly big-bucks talent.

As for all these fixes - if they don't include something to undo all the 'enhancements' then I'm not interested. I don't want to have to install third-party stuff to fix something that shouldn't have been broken in the first place - all credit to those who put effort into (usually free open source) patches for these.

Re: Every time...

A: exactly the same as windows 7 and windows 8 which are both much faster than doing the same thing in XP

Press start, type network connections

Here you go

http://xxinightxxcreative.weebly.com/free-windows-aero.html

Not used it myself, so no guarantee's that it's spy / adware free, safe or even legal but it's the first thing I'm gonna do when I upgrade. I hate flat, one shaded colour squares.

Oh yea, running preview on home games machine, 101?? version. Right click taskbar, 'show windows side by side' shows them horizontally. Come out of a game and 98% of the desktop picture has turned into coloured dots - yea, this is ready for primetime...

Kaspersky 2015 was the only product I use that wouldn't work.

Ah, I knew the NSA would eventually find a way around the one virus vendor who refuses to whitelist government spyware. Microsoft is a US company, yes? Well, duh.

No, I won't call malice stupidity. For a start, this is the company that insists on dragging a gazillion experts onto the stage every time it presents to governments and military so they certainly have the resources to know (and do) better, and secondly, conspiracy theories are more fun that yet another boring set of Microsoft bugs*. So there.

* And I don't buy the Open Source thing either.

Re: Don't forget your SSID!

Please tell me you're just a casual browser here, and don't actually work in IT.

There's a load of ways of disabling wifi sense from sharing to your 'known contacts' - note not unknown.