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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday May 20 2017, @04:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-you-Linux-people-can-just-move-along dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the Windows 10 Creative Update was rolled out, the company began work on the next major update to Windows 10, code-named Redstone 3.

As it did with the Creators Update, Microsoft has been releasing public preview builds to members of Microsoft's Insider Program via a series of public preview builds.

What follows is a list of every preview build of Redstone 3, starting with the most recent. (Note: This covers only previews for the PC version of Windows 10, not the phone version.) For each build, we've included the date of its release and a link to Microsoft's announcement about it.

Note that we've kept the list of all the preview builds that let up to Creators Update, which are below the builds of Redstone 3.

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16199

Release date: May 17, 2017

This minor build includes several new features for the My People app. You can pin your favorite contacts to the taskbar and see emoji from your pinned contacts. Pinned contacts also display counters for messages you haven't yet read from them. And you can now share files with contacts by dragging and dropping files onto pinned contacts, which creates an email message to the contact with the file attached.

The build also includes several minor changes to settings, notably the addition of a health section that pulls information from the Windows Defender Security Center, making it easier to see the overall health of your PC in a quick glance.

Beyond that are the usual assortment of minor changes, improvements and bug fixes, such as Windows Defender Security Center not flagging disabled drivers as issues.

-- submitted from IRC


[Ed Note: The article goes into detail on each of the preview release builds going back a good long way. Yes, I am a Windows guy. gewg_ will have to get over it. - cmn32480]

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  • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:28PM (9 children)

    by BsAtHome (889) on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:28PM (#512653)

    > [Ed Note: ... Yes, I am a Windows guy. gewg_ will have to get over it. - cmn32480]

    Nobody is perfect. You are probably not too old to learn what you are missing and become enlightened in the end ;-)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:41PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:41PM (#512655)

    Nothing to do with enlightenment in my case, simple pragmatism -- I like to have customers, and all my customers use Windows and want the tools we create to work on Windows (although several have not moved to Win10 yet).

    From the fine article,
    > and see emoji from your pinned contacts
    Rhetorical question, how long before MS realizes that some people just want to get work done and not fool around? I would really appreciate it if there was a "small/medium business" version of Windows without all this social and smart-phone crap in it.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:39PM (#512666)

      Luddite linux lusers can't see why appy appers appily app crappy apps. Apps!

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:44PM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:44PM (#512669) Journal

      Rhetorical question, how long before MS realizes that some people just want to get work done and not fool around? I would really appreciate it if there was a "small/medium business" version of Windows without all this social and smart-phone crap in it.

      No need to fret. It looks like they are just copying Slack [arstechnica.com].

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      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:56PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:56PM (#512673) Journal

        Sometimes you just have to use the *plonk* and ignore function and leave the less functional people behind. And when people use a irrelevant emoji to indicate something else than availability despite it being the intention. Presume they are awake at 3 am, then lambast them for not being that.

    • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:30PM

      by art guerrilla (3082) on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:30PM (#512757)

      just say while it might be theoretically possible to go linux to run some/much of the s/w i use, it is just not possible *practically* to do so entirely...
      so, i am effectively 'forced' to use windoze, and i despise it with every fiber of my body, ESPECIALLY the recent win10 hivemind bullshit...
      just the other day, went to copy a bunch of files, but the eee-vil spawn of bill gates had changed all my directories/files to read-only, you know, for my own protection and convenience...
      didn't really notice that it only copied the subdirectory names until i went to copy the files to the other computer...
      AND, when i changed all the properties of the folders/below to uncheck read-only, the eee-vil spawn of bill gates helpfully changed it back for me the next day...
      i blame him personally, who else is responsible ? ? ?
      (no, i don't want to hear some bullshit about hierarchy and distributed (ie ZERO) responsibility...)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:32PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:32PM (#512758)

      This brings up some questions:

      Is the hardware they are using so old|underpowered and/or software so demanding that what they do couldn't be done in a VM under Linux?

      Have you ever even tried such a virtualized configuration?
      In particular, have you tried replacing a snapshot of a (e.g. borked) VM and compared that to the bare-metal version of that process?

      I find that people who don't try new methods are often surprised by what kinds of powerful stuff has become available since they became set in their ways.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Sunday May 21 2017, @12:22AM (2 children)

        Have you ever even tried such a virtualized configuration?
        In particular, have you tried replacing a snapshot of a (e.g. borked) VM and compared that to the bare-metal version of that process?

        What this then means is that we have to manage two operating systems for every user. Beyond doing it for a small number of people , this is not practical.

        If you use management software beyond the built in tools, it doubles your licensing costs. If you do it by allowing the users to update all their own stuff through the individual built in systems in the OS, it never gets done AND you have to give admin rights.

        Unless Linux has some built in management tools to manage numbers of machines at once, your solution leaves the network vulnerable, or requires an exceptional amount of extra work to keep the systems patched.

        The ability to manage the configurations, programs, patching and virtually everything else centrally is what makes Windows viable in the enterprise. That I can have Active Directory handle all my patching, with built in tools, and the ability to configure to a pretty granular level what gets installed using the built in tools is WHY windows still has a lock on the enterprise desktop.

        Maybe I've just been lucky, but I find that Windows VERY rarely shits itself so badly that it isn't recoverable from a reboot. This hasn't really been a problem since Windows XP, which is a 13 year old OS.

        And before you go spouting about I only know Windows, yes, that is the main OS that I use, but I do manage several Linux/BSD boxes as a part of my job, and while I may not be an expert, I know enough to keep things going.

        --
        "It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @03:24AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @03:24AM (#512857)

          Some deployment/management tools that Linux guys use are Puppet [google.com] and Chef. [google.com]

          doubles your licensing costs

          Not with gratis and libre licenses.

          I find that Windows VERY rarely shits itself so badly [...] since Windows XP

          At that same point (Product Activation), I resolved to never again give M$ any more of my money.
          As such, my limited experience with Windoze for most of this century has been with locked-down kiosks, a very unsatisfactory experience.
          (Right-click is completely disabled? Seriously? That ecosystem is -that- fragile??).

          -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @11:42PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @11:42PM (#518580)

            Right-click is completely disabled? Seriously? That ecosystem is -that- fragile??

            Yes, I have seen poorly locked-down kiosks (again 13 years ago). The user was not trusted with anything, but the software was trusted implicitly. You could change the desktop background by telling some application to: "set this picture as the back-ground"(right click menu of course).