Mary Jo Foley speaks again on Windows "instabilities" in this add-on to her previous article on the subject.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/my-biggest-problem-with-windows-10-stability/

"Microsoft's original plan, we've heard from various sources, was to roll out Windows 10 in October 2015. Instead, due to OEM pressure, Microsoft began rolling out Windows 10 in late July. An update with a bunch of missing features, known as Threshold 2, is coming later this Fall.

But what I'm more interested in now is Redstone. Redstone is the next set of updates for Windows 10 after Threshold 2. Word is there will be two Redstone updates -- Summer and Fall -- in 2016. And according to my sources, a big focus for Redstone will be on improving the stability of the Windows 10 ecosystem and its many piece parts, via engineering processes instituted by the Windows team.

I'm hoping time and some of these ongoing Cumulative Updates will bring more stability to Windows 10 in the coming months. While I wait for this, I'll keep using Windows 10 on my laptop and hope for better stability. But I'm definitely also not going to be moving my main work machine off Windows 7 in the interim."

Some serious slam words coming from Ms Microsoft herself.

And, speaking of the Win 10 Mobile Beta Test program ..... here is the next "unknowing, unwilling" installation bricking kerfuffle.

http://www.windowscentral.com/non-supported-phones-will-see-windows-10-mobile...

Windows 10 Mobile

Along with the list of officially supported handsets, it looks like several non-Lumia phones were also able to download and install Windows 10 Mobile build 10536.

That's due to a "detectoid" bug, according to Gabe Aul, who has stated that the build will not work on a non-supported device, and that installing it will require a reflash to get the phone back to a functioning state.


Once again folks, if you see Windows 10 Mobile build 10536 on non-Lumia devices, do not download and install it. You'll just end up having to reflash your device.

Here's the official list of phones supported by the Windows Insider program:

Lumia 430
Lumia 435
Lumia 520
Lumia 521
Lumia 525
Lumia 526
Lumia 530
Lumia 532
Lumia 535
Lumia 540
Lumia 620
Lumia 625
Lumia 630
Lumia 635
Lumia 636
Lumia 638
Lumia 640
Lumia 640 XL
Lumia 720
Lumia 730
Lumia 735
Lumia 810
Lumia 820
Lumia 822
Lumia 830
Lumia 920
Lumia 925
Lumia 928
Lumia 930
Lumia 1020
Lumia 1320
Lumia 1520
Lumia Icon
HTC One (M8) for Windows

**Update:* We've heard back from users stating that the update has been downloaded automatically to those running Windows 10 Mobile on unsupported devices, even with automatic updates turned off. If you're running the preview on non-sanctioned devices, we advise you de-list from the Insider Program until the issue is resolved.

Source: Twitter (Gabe Aul); Via: WinBeta


Ouch ..... more bricked dead "other brand" phones, huh?  And, although MS pushed the update out to all the Beta Testers and MS triggered the update automatically and it was MS's bad update that bricked the hardware, but this time MS says they have no responsibility to you financially because they done told you all you off-branders REPEATEDLY to DE-LIST from the Beta program because unless you own one of a very select few MS built phones that the stuff actually works on it jest isn't safe for you to touch?

Sorta like saying your mobile pusher engine is totally out of control and can't tell what sort of phone the user has so they all get the same potentially harmful package no matter WHO they are .....  that's like saying your pusher engine is crap, you know.  

Oh, bad buggy detectoids again -- I see.

Right.   What will the EU Fair Trade Commission have to say about that, I wonder ......   you know, the free Win 10 mobile that everyone was promised that would run on all Windows phonesand in fact is only running on MS own Lumina brand phones and is actually killing off all the other brand phones automatically, I mean.  

Is that possibly considered "In restraint of free trade"?   Or is it just plain old "negligent property damage" instead?




       ..... mebbe if they can tell whose detectoid it was that had the death dealing bug in it then perhaps they can assign all the damages $$$ to that detectoid's owner.  

The owner of the malicious detectoid is after all, the one responsible, according to MS.  

Hey, that's YOU, MS -- it is all on you.

Doing such stuff twice means that the second instance is fully actionable for all harm done the second time around, since you KNEW it would kill those non-Lumina phones and you dispersed the upgrade anyway through a non-discerning, known to be broken pusher engine.

"Trust us" ----- right.    

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-begs-you-to-use-edge-2015-10?r=UK&IR=T

Microsoft is begging users not to ditch its Edge web browser



"Microsoft has previously made overtures to those wanting to switch, placing a message within the Bing search for Chrome and Firefox that advertises the benefits of Edge.

According to Netmarketshare, Edge had around 2.4% of the total browser share on desktop as of September. Safari, the default browser on OS X, had around 5%.

The company is also targeting people who want to switch to third-party photo and music apps, offering a pop-up window that displays the virtues of the built-in Photo or Groove Music apps."

This refers to big business customers and it is a shot straight at MS Office.  

Since Google can Chromebook any Windows PC now and it is offering FREE software to business I think this is an escalation of the old Chrome Wars.

Google took education at 90+% already and has made some minor inroads in American business -- but it has done a good bit better in developing markets as FREE means more to them, especially when you combine it with not needing an IT department to ride herd on your MS mess.

Google is also putting themselves forward at a time when folks are getting sick of Win 10 being so erratic and unstable.

Guess who celebrated their 11th birthday by vowing to bring full convergence into a Phone/PC by year's end.  

And we mean full convergence using all Unbuntu's full scale full power programs.

So much for MS's promise to let you keep your Beta software and they would keep it updated on out into the future, huh?            

LOL, spent 12 hours loading up and downloading stuff for windows vista, my last "update" was for sp2 or somesuch "64bit", on reboot, I got a flashing line top left... stuck the recovery disk in, and got a 10" tall red "error" on the screen.
So I stuck in 17.2 mint....  25 minutes later and here I am
Got to learn to use it with games and such, going to download steam tomorrow and set up a few games.
Then i'm going to try to tackle my newest one.... it is an old favorite being made new again, a 6 degree flight sim called descent.

http://descendentstudios.com/

I am an underground tester ... small area's right now... and I will have to build a better computer to play, but hey.... it's addicting