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Betanews reports on an announcement from Microsoft regarding its Windows 10 operating system:
[...] come May 9 it will stop updating the original release, known as 1507. The software giant had intended to stop supporting that release on March 26, but pushed back the deadline.
additional coverage:
Computerworld
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 16 2017, @11:50PM (3 children)
So if Win10 R1507 is not updated anymore. Then one will no longer have to bother with "You must download and install these 10 000 packages NOW" and then be forced to reboot-install-repeat ad tiredness. It's not like Microsoft products ever will be decently safe so it might in fact be a improvement.
Otherwise it seems like a pressure on users to go full in with the latest fifth colon spyware.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @12:19AM (2 children)
Given this refers to the initial release, how long until they obsolete Win10 SP1, SP2 and the just-unleashed SP3? (Yes, I know they claimed "no more version numbers", but try to remember where you stand if you're running the not-a-version-number Build 666 or whatever-the-hell each one is.)
Not that I honestly give a damn; I refuse to infect my computers with that shite. I just wanted to point out the stupidity of the not-a-version-number system that results if few people having a clue what actual version they're running.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday April 17 2017, @01:53AM
I keep 1 installation of Windows 10 available, and experiment on it, see how much crap I can uninstall, delete, block, and so on and still have it functioning. Almost all the cloud crap can be uninstalled. Have to bring up a "power shell", and enter
Get-AppxPackage *zunevideo* | Remove-AppxPackage
and the same command with *zunemusic*, *windowsstore* and a bunch of other things to get rid of them.
By accident I learned one way to prevent Windows 10 from updating is to not have enough free space. If there's less than 1G of hard drive space free, it can't do the major updates. It will complain of course, but it won't try to update.
Like Sun Tzu said, "know your enemy".
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 17 2017, @08:44AM
From the Computerworld article:
The company has pledged to support an individual edition, such as 1507, not for 10 years, as policy required for, say, Windows 7 or 8.1, but only for 18 months or so.