The Ghost of Windows 10 Past shrinks back as Microsoft's axeman tiptoes ever closer A fresh set of usage figures has the notorious Windows 10 October 2018 Update withering on the Redmond vine as uptake of November's jumped-up patchfest climbs. There was good news today for pretty much everyone as Microsoft's disastrous 1809 update for Windows 10 saw its usage drop from 22 per cent in January to a mere 16.4 …
The feature update to get past 1809 failed repeatedly on one of my systems - didn't appear to like sharing the EFI partition with GRUB. Eventually I was forced to do a manual reinstall of Windows to get up-to-date because the latest nVidia drivers refused to install on such an "old" version of Windows.
Let's hope that Microsoft have fixed such update issues in this release - not going to hold my breath though.
So... a tiny proportion of all PCs running Win10, with sample data entirely skewed toward those running a subset of Windows Store apps. That's some quality* surveying right there.
Like looking out the window and saying "I can see blue sky therefore it's sunny everywhere.".
The only thing "handy" about this report is if it's printed out and I've run out of toilet paper.
*For values of quality at or near useless.
Actually disabling automatic updates on my Windows 7 machines at home made my life so easy. Never had any problems with slurping nor the gently nudging into upgrading to Windows 10 (that close button that also worked as a yes, upgrade me). This also helped me to avoid the shenanigans associated with the final updates for the venerable platform.
All I had to do is keep an eye on critical vulnerabilities and install only the relevant patch if they were relevant to my configuration.
We cannot use 1903 and 1909 with our software as once again MS broke certain functionality when they included .NET 4.8 in 1903/1909. They have a history of doing this since the release of .NET 4.5.0. When are they finally going to get rid of .NET Framework and move to something a bit more stable from version to version? Or perhaps stop changing it with every Win10 version (or every other version)? Either way, pretty soon we may well have to start developing for Linux as MS are making it more and more difficult for us to keep up with their constant incessant fiddling with .NET. Either that or else stop with the stupidly short lifespan for each version on Win10. And NO Microsoft, we are not going to auto-upgrade because every time we do you f**k something else up that we end up having to fix/work around.
Haven't you heard? .NET Framework is dead now -- they're doing everything on .NET Core now (the open source cross platform one.)
The actual .NET Framework might end up like IE 11 -- you'll get one last release that will see no feature updates ever, until they pull it and force your app onto Core.
You seem to be forgetting about Ghosts in general more likely to appear and stay in America where Microsoft is than anywhere else. The whole place appears constantly haunted in videos taken by witnesses of variant meta physical phenomena counteracting Physical and natural knowledge and conscious awareness. There must be many simultaneous Americans by watching themselves. Windows 10 has got nothing to do with it.
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