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It's interesting that the big update to W10 ("Redstone") arrives a couple of days after the free offer ends. Perhaps they want the last minute rush of cajoled u
by frou_dh 10y ago
It's interesting that the big update to W10 ("Redstone") arrives a couple of days after the free offer ends. Perhaps they want the last minute rush of cajoled upgraders to be greeted with a known stable version, rather than the latest and greatest which could have issues to shake out.
- kyriakos 10y agorunning a redstone insider build on my laptop right now. it seems more stable than their release branch and a lot of the UI inconsistencies were fixed. of course I cannot speak for every PC out there but I know of cases with the current stable build not working on some PCs which means that one is not a stability monster either. they should have either extended the free upgrade offer for a month or released Redstone earlier. it doesn't make sense to make someone upgrade today and then force them to re-upgrade to redstone a few days later.
- Lorkki 10y agoOr maybe it's just that maintaining the direct upgrade from Windows 7 is only going to be a bigger expense as the platforms diverge. I wouldn't be too surprised if they planned to retire that path completely and force people to install Windows 10 from scratch in the future.
- WorldMaker 10y agoThe timing was originally intended to coincide (the version tag is 1607 as in this month), but was pushed back a bit. My impression is that they probably would have loved some of the upgraders to skip right along to the "Anniversary Update". (Running Insider Preview builds on one of my machines, it is a good polish update for Windows 10 in most ways.)