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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.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Sunday May 21 2017, @12:22AM (2 children)
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)
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??).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @11:42PM
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).