I really dislike the weird "named update" thing Microsoft is doing here. There are now two "Creators Updates" and searching for info on them is problematic as they only differ by one word. I much prefer a simple "Service Pack N" or something like it. Also, it's difficult to know at a glance which came first. Also, what does it have to do with "Creators"? I'm not a Creator on my Windows machine, I just game on it. Is there going to be a "Consumer Update" later?<p>Also, I'd be remiss to not bemoan the ridiculous fact that as a Windows 10 user I am not able to avoid updates if I so choose. These updates that are forced upon me routinely break my games until drivers/games are updated and I'd very much like the ability to only apply them when and if I choose.<p>Oh, how I wish gaming on other platforms was viable. Sadly, I don't think that's ever going to happen with Apple not taking Mac gaming seriously and Linux gaming having been "almost there" for a decade.<p>edit: typo and update to first paragraph
Here are my 10 fantasy features:<p>1 Improved Cortana: you can now remove it in one click<p>2 Improved OneDrive: you can now remove it in one click<p>3 Improved resistance to featuritis: you cannot install anything AR or VR<p>4 Improved UI - will not freeze entire laptop for 3 secs by clicking the battery icon<p>5 Better Edge - downloads Chrome/Firefox 20% faster<p>6 Emojis - auto-bans contacts who use non-text emojis<p>7 Replaces Task Manager with much better MS Process Explorer that already has GPU stats<p>8 Does not try and gather all my contacts emails under the pretext of "People Integration" whatever that means<p>9 One button to turn off all the tracking/telemetry<p>10 Improved UI - Clicking on start does not result in times' square popping up.<p>Windows 10 fall creators update: No one asked for any of this but here it is anyway.<p>Windows 10 fall creators update: You should've seen the features we cut!
I must say I am rather disappointed with most changes discussed here. They all seem very superficial changes and I wish they would solve/improve other things. Some examples include:<p>1. Bring the "power plan" (balanced/presentation/high performance) switching into the tray battery icon next to "Battery saver", which is independent of the "battery saver" power plan. This seems (!) like an easy change which many users would adore.<p>2. Finally unifying settings into one and only one place instead of having a "Settings" app only to find that every other thing you want to change eventually leads to the old setting window which hasn't changed since at least Windows XP.<p>3. Fix the occassionally horrific Start search, which will do things like find "Word 2016" as "Best match" when having pressed "wo", but once another "r" is pressed to make the search string "wor", the "Best match" changes to "Wordpad". Way too often does it happen, that you notice the best match as you're typing and then hit Enter only to find that by the time another letter was pressed (still the right one considering the current "Best match"!!), the "Best match" changed to something else.<p>That's in the cases where the Search only finds programs installed to a specific date and is not able to find anything newer, which has already happened on two computers I've seen. Not even mentioning that the "best match" gets updated with time even when no new keys are pressed. So the same can happen just due to the "Best match" changing between you start and finish the movement to hit "Enter".<p>4. Finish improving the horrific thing that is looking up a network drive/device using explorer.exe, leading to freezes and delayed error popups that feel very Windows 95ish.<p>5. Maybe change that a window of Explorer becomes unresponsive if waiting for a HDD to spin up. This happens regularly if your system is on an SSD and you have a second disk (HDD) mounted on another letter (D:\). When you haven't clicked that disk for a while, everything freezes between you clicking on it and it spinning up to start reading.<p>But hey, let's add another presumably more sexy and unifying look to the uppermost layers of the system.<p>Edit: Maybe they did other under-the-hood changes that are just not being discussed. If so, where would one find them?
While I am overall pretty positive about Windows 10; has anyone else been having ongoing issues with this large "upgrade" updates?<p>For example my work machine is outright refusing to install the last one, and Googling suggests the only way to get around it is a manual install via USB. A family member's home machine also got corrupted during an install, and I had to wipe it to recover (since it couldn't roll back or complete the installation).<p>I like the concept of these "big bang" updates with new features, but there's something wrong with how they're delivered.
Best new feature - Task Manager locks the system up completely for about five minutes when I go to launch it to see why another process is behaving sluggishly...
The Windows Fall Creators Update, which they are calling the Autumn Creators Update outside of North America, including in the southern hemisphere where Spring is in the air. No apostrophe. Marketing fail on so many levels.
It'd be nice if the reviewer were familiar with other OSs. A lot of these best new features are stuff that other proprietary desktop OS had for some time now.