Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name Microsoft has given the next version of Windows 10 a name. 19H2 will now be known as the November 2019 Update and is due to land any day now. Build 18363.418 is, as far as Microsoft is concerned, the final version ahead of release, although the company will continue to emit updates as part of its "normal servicing cadence". …
"The correct sound made during fellatio?"
Makes me think of the Bee Gees song,
"How deep is your love"
Fnaar fnaar
It also looks like 19H2 is going to be a pretty boring service pack. A couple of aesthetic changes and yet another minor change to the start menu.
One good thing, Cortana is going out.
One "extremely" bad thing "Alexa coming in" - not on my PC it wont be...and definately not on the corporate network..
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No, Halloween Edition was definitely last year's Fall Update.
(ref. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/windows_10_update/, for starters.)
.. and i for one am sick of it.
I realise that the product is "LICENSED", but the abilty to do anything on a system level (for example prventing the collection of data) is becoming more and more restricted and infuriating, and we allow thenm to do this!
MS are a flipping business, not in any way authoritive. Any other business treating customers this way would be picking pitchforks out of their jacksies for years to copme. MS ARE NOT the law. we dont have to go along with it if we spoke up and get the product changed to the USERS wants. I'm certain that almost all users dont want their activity and data transmitted anywhere. however innocent. It's wrong.
.Trying stopping or altering or disabling a service that ends in an underscore and some random characters.
.Even some scheduled tasks are not allowed to be stopped.
So to stop an offending, unecessary service that is purely for data collection, you have to log in in safe mode, and HOPE your get the rights and then hope more that the next update doesn't undo it all again.
Unless you mess with registry permissions, and that's even more risky as you may find hardware is no longer found and all kinds knock on effects.
Permissions wise across the system, taking ownership is not enough because the "administrator" is no longer granted the god-level permissions they ought to have. i know not to log in with the admin account as a matter of course, but when i need to, the account just doesn't have the power.
I hate it. I hate it i hate it.
As others will no doubt say ... go to Linux or Apple. Obviously in the real world this isn't realistic (unfortuneately) but the other way is monitor your network, see what unknown junk gets sent to Microsoft domains and put a firewall rule on your external router to block it.
Actually, Apple is just as bad, these days ... their hardware sucks big time and their OS has become UAC-infested smartphoneOS, MS' wet dream OS, basically ...
Linux is leaning the wrong way as well, infested with MS on the Linux foundation's board.
We still have the BSD's, mind, and Hurd is coming (lol)
MS are a flipping business, not in any way authoritive. Any other business treating customers this way would be picking pitchforks out of their jacksies for years to come.
Well, it *USED* to be that way, but between the blissfully unaware general public, and increasingly predatory companies of any and all kinds, not much chance of any such response to corporate customer hostility either occurring or being allowed to happen.
Personally I can understand a sysadmin having a test machine running the latest pre-release but I am at a complete loss as to why any normal user would be on the "fast road to hell" or whatever the preview release system is called this month. Are there really desirable functional upgrades rolling out at 6 month intervals? I can't say I have noticed anything new that I actually wanted since I moved to Win 10, a decision made only because of driver availability fears.
The system more or less forced me to upgrade to 1803 in July. Can't say it had anything I wanted nor is there anything new in the November refresh that I can't do without. I shall happily remain 18 months or so behind the crowd and let the poor saps with Windoze Home find the bugs.
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