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Microsoft has now released three cumulative updates for Windows 10. These updates combine security fixes with non-security bug fixes, and so far, Microsoft hasn't done a very good job of describing the contents of these cumulative updates. While the security content is quite fully described, explanations of the non-security fixes have been lacking.
Many, including your author, feel that this is undesirable and that a key part of the Windows-as-a-Service concept, in which Microsoft releases a steady stream of fixes and functional improvements, is a clear explanation of what those updates are. This is a new approach for Microsoft, and it seems like reassuring users and administrators that issues are getting fixed—and that functional changes are clearly described—should be important.
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Unfortunately, it does not seem that the company intends to change this approach. Company representatives told The Register that while the company "may choose" to perform "additional promotion" of new features depending on their "significance," there's no intention of providing full release notes. This means that future patches are going to continue to say nothing more than "This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10."
Anybody want off the Microsoft train yet?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @03:22AM
I tried some sort of Linux (SCO?) when I had Windows 95, but for the life of me I couldn't compile a kernel that would run sound, so I gave up.
Later, when I had Windows 98, I tried SuSE, and a friend introduced me to Slackware. Slack struck a chord with me: it was fast as hell on my outdated systems, it ran most of my hardware and I was able to get the rest working with some effort, and the office software (kOffice at the time) wasn't that far behind the contemporary edition of MS Office. I stayed with Slackware for years, longer than I had with either Win95 or Win98.
A few years later, I got one of the first MacBooks. Holy shit, my world was rocked. Everything worked out of the box, the shitty word processor and presentation software were far better than MS Office and blew abiWord, kWord, and OpenSlowShitpileJavaSplashScreenFuckFuckFuckOffice out of the water, and it was all gorgeous, and yet it was basically BSD done with style. I never left OSX and am still using it. It just gets out of my way and lets me be productive in ways that Windows and Linux never did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:48AM
I ended up in yoyo mode between DOS/Windows and Linux between 1994 and 200, went to Linux while I was at university, went back to Windows for a short time around 2003, and then went to Linux in 2004. No Windows since then, until about 8 months ago I was given an old MacBook. Now it's OSX for life, Linux for my mail server, and Windows Vista for Unity 5. As soon as Unity 5 for Linux is released, that Windows partition is going to hell.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 25 2015, @07:42AM
I ended up in yoyo mode between DOS/Windows and Linux between 1994 and 200
You know, claiming time travel undercuts your credibility massively.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday August 25 2015, @01:21PM
Well, you would know better than most.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:07PM
Ha! True, that. But I at least go in the normal "time's arrow" direction!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @05:13PM
> I never left OSX and am still using it. It just gets out of my way and lets me be productive
> in ways that Windows and Linux never did.
>
Most people should realize, hopefully, that your comment says nothing about Windows or Linux but only about you.
One cannot blame the OS for the shortcomings of the user.