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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: 2) by skullz on Tuesday August 25 2015, @04:48PM
Drivers, games and .NET development keep me on the Windows system. I don't see any viable alternatives for an OS that will manage the daily grind.
I had high hopes for MS, it seemed they were pulling their heads out of their butts, moving to a service model so they could patch their crap, adding in user controls to manage privacy and security, even a half decent virus scanner. The .NET platform was being opened up and gone were the days when you needed MS-Internal-Secret-Sauce to get 3rd party applications to run fast on Windows. It was looking good, particularly compared to Apple and Android for mobile.
This lack of transparency is not going to fly in the corp world though and I worry that we will have two classes of MS digital citizens: those with patch notes and those without. Most people won't know / care until that cool new "feature" was snuck in without anyone knowing and it starts to blow up CNN and Fox News about teh eval computers spying on you, similar to the relatively benign WiFi sharing. Turn away from the darkness, Microsoft! You were on a reasonable track.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:49PM
Mono can run many .NET applications.
(Score: 2) by skullz on Wednesday August 26 2015, @02:57PM
You are right, but when you want to do it in a production environment for a small business it is hard to sell a Linux + Mono install vs a "full stack" Microsoft + .NET deployment. The MS stuff is just easier for most businesses to maintain.