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Windows-10

When Microsoft launched Windows 10, it introduced a number of changes to the traditional Windows update model. Instead of offering a range of recommended and optional updates and explaining what each did, Microsoft declared that it would only explain security updates. All other Os changes would have place nether the hood.

Users and businesses were less than thrilled with this arrangement. While Windows 10 has taken some heat merely for being different than previous versions, the ability to troubleshoot a trouble with the operating system is crippled if the end-user or It staff have no idea what an update did. Microsoft agreed terminal fall to begin publicly releasing the private patch notes they were sending to OEM customers and it began making skillful on that promise this week.

While there's zippo earth-shattering in today's release, information technology does illustrate why people value patch notes in the kickoff identify. Hither are some of the fixes going in with the February nine update.

  • Stock-still problems with authentication, update installation, and operating system installation.
  • Fixed event with Microsoft Edge browser caching visited URLs while using InPrivate browsing.
  • Fixed issue that didn't allow simultaneous install of apps from the Windows Store and updates from Windows Update.
  • Fixed issue that delayed the availability of songs added to the Groove Music app in Windows 10 Mobile.

Nosotros could still use more than granularity on some of these topics, but these are all problems that a person could plausibly encounter in Windows 10 and take no thought how to resolve. Conversely, if these updates crusade a trouble in Microsoft Edge or with Groove Music in Windows 10 Mobile, the cease-user at present at to the lowest degree knows that Microsoft updated that application in its latest patch. The company loses nil simply past making this data available to its users and it saves them a considerable headache by doing so.

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We're glad to see Microsoft making good on its promise and improving advice on Windows 10. Hopefully the company will address concerns almost privacy and user-tracking every bit well — much of the negative discussion around Windows 10 boils down to terrible communication between Microsoft and its user base. These problems could be resolved by small tweaks to both Microsoft's data drove policies and the process through which it communicates its policies and decisions. While the company previously stated that it was considering patch notes for enterprise customers, for example, it at present appears information technology volition release this information into full general channels.

Alright, I'll amend that slightly. Microsoft could resolve these problems through some minor policy updates and promising non to shove Windows 10 at people like a Chinese pharmacy hawking herbal Viagra. Simply since the latter is unlikely to change, I'd settle for the old.