Next year's Windows 10 comes bounding into the Slow Ring, which means 19H2 waits in the wings On the eve of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft began shifting Slow Ring testers onto 2020's Windows 10. The move is an indication that the company reckons 19H2, aka the November 2019 Update, is ready to be unleashed on the General Public. It also means that Slow Ring testers will finally be able to get their hands on the Windows …
18 month maximum support term, upgrades that take 1.5 or more hours. Absolute farce.
Then you get to play the fun game of "Update all the broken applications via their individual installation mechanisms".
Dear god, it's like someone sat down and concocted the absolute worst way to try and perform a business critical task.
Then you get to play the fun game of "Update all the broken applications via their individual installation mechanisms".
I played that the other day. On Ubuntu. Actually, I tried to play - reinstalling one application in particular didn't do shit. The lovely developers are still trying to understand what the fuck is going on.
It's a game I used to play regularly on macOS too - until, that is, my mac became too old to be updated because "reasons".
Never played it on Windows.
"Downloading the iso, on my iPad because it lets me download it directly without the media creation tool that way."
Just spoof your user agent, and you can download the ISO directly from a Windows PC too. That said, at least with 1809, the ISO created by the Media Creation Tool is smaller than the one downloaded directly, probably because it has fewer installation images in install.wim / install.esd.
I tried Google's user agent spoofer for Chrome, and it didn't work.
Maybe one of the others would, but it would be more effort to find it than to just do it on the iPad.
Once you get the download link on the iPad, you can use it somewhere else. I pasted it into an ssh session on the storage server.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
Personally, I want to know why the 1903 enterprise version goes EOL in December 2020, whereas 1809 is EOL in may 2021... I still hold that it's a typo and hasn't been corrected. Even our TAM was confused about that one. Our company is still wrapping it's head around 1803, and once that's done, we get ~9 months to look at deploying either 1809 or 1909. It's.... aggravating.
And before all the linux fanbois start in: we have software that is windows only, which is why we are stuck on this treadmill.
(Note: I didn't say it was a benevolent god...)
I have a 3 month old laptop supplied with W10 installed and currently it will not start up without complaining that there is not enough memory to update ... Need an external disk, but it can't even use that. The on board 30Gb disk does not have enough free space to install 1903 even after wiping almost everything I've installed that I need to use the laptop. The annoying thing ... ALL I need it for is to use a browser to access client sites for maintenance purposes and after I get back in it does that job without any problems! SHOULD I be able to return the laptop as unfit for purpose simply because W10 will not update on it?
The machine is more than adequate for the job it was bought for and certainly the only limitation is the crap broadband connection. It's sitting next to me doing everything it needs to and it's only the continual harrasment of update warnings that provide ANY problem ... If 32Gb disk is too small for W10 then why was the machine even in stock at PCWorld anyway?
The list of things broken, sorta working or causing user or admin frustration is near endless. Yes the thing they choose to fix was .. notepad. Which wasn't broken.
Are we going to resort to edlin to edit or view a config file gone nuts? (for anything that isn't now in registry or having been SystemD-ed and now a binary log file.
Microsoft Windows team have the prioritisation skills of a rabid dog on LSD while painting the Mona Lisa.
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