Microsoft suspends Windows 10 new-build downloads ahead of launch Microsoft’s closed the tap on fresh builds of Windows 10 in preparation for final launch. Windows 10 preview builds 10162 and 10166 are no longer being rolled out through the Windows Update service. Also, if you look for anything new the current build you’re on will be shown as “up to date". ISOs for build 10162 are also …
It's a nasty one and it caused me some grief. As far as power off is concerned - I found that the right-click start menu was still available, so I could get out of it.
The continuing presence of this particular problem is one reason why I have doubts about Windows 10 being good enough for release as planned.
It does seem to be the most chaotic Windows release ever. My perception is that everything is being thrown together at the last minute in the hope that it all works and the back end processes like marketing and distribution just aren't ready. I think it has the potential to be MS most catastrophic release with every uninformed PC owner being nagged to install it ASAP. If MS can pull off this release I will be impressed, I'm going to wait until the dust settles before I even think about upgrading.
For some reason I immediately assumed that you were referring to the lead singer of Everything Everything but apparently he's called Jonathan Higgs.
http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/18/everything-everything-distant-past-jonathan-higgs
(Warning: Distant Past can be a bit of an earworm, and the haircut's hard to unsee too).
Although I really love windows Microsoft are trying their best to kill it.
Why can't they just have a good, reliable, secure desktop OS for 99% of the users instead of all this touch and mobile crap?
Listening to theor customers is not their strong point and will ultimately end in the demise of the PC market for all but corporate. It's a shame.
Because all the market growth is in mobile, and Microsoft doesn't have a competitive product there. How many people do you know who've bought a desktop PC for their home recently, or even a laptop? And how many businesses are adopting Windows 8?
The number of people recently still on XP is indicative of a long-term slowdown in the Windows upgrade market. MSFT is trying to catch up in mobile by leveraging their traditional presence, but people have got used to Android and iOS. MSFT's traditional partner, Intel, is in a similar position.
It's got to the point that you can hook up a phone to a keyboard and TV to make a "PC" (non-IBM-compatible) that is quite usable for browsing, social networking or working on your cloudy stuff, which are apparently what people are interested in these days.
I share the concern about the effect of distribution but less on the source server side; I'm much more concerned about the impact on each country's internet providers and the available bandwidth.
If 'the many' have simply accepted the GWX/Get Windows 10 updates installed over the last few months, then those machines are going consume an awful amount of bandwidth... Caching the updates by content delivery platforms, such as Akamai (many other platforms are available) to help distribute the load on the source servers, does not remove the significant data volume that has to get to those machines on July 29th/30th...
So their downloads of Win 10 upon the public will clog the Interwebs? I suspect that Murphy is waiting in the wings mouthing over and over: "The best laid plans of mice and men....". I think I'll go vacation (holiday) that week and the next to someplace with no internet, no cell phone coverage.
28th July. Booked my holiday for a week. So I don't have to answer the phone to all the muppets who decide to try and upgrade.
'But my computer kept telling me too....'
I know quite a few people round here on a shared low bandwidth long range wifi connection who are going to get a shock.
As well as the ones with ADSL on the wrong end of a long phone line.
The Microdoft job creation software just keeps getting better :-)
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