Windows 10 as a service, Microsoft said its helps stops software fragmentation, but i think we now got a bigger issue, Branch Version Fragmentation. Branch Version Fragmentation is more rapid than OS fragmentation, versions comes out twice a year!!!! Now we got 3 branch version: -Windows 10 Version 1607 -Windows 10 Version 1511 -Windows 10 (initial version released July 2015) and here are the cumulative Downloads: -Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3199125) 1033.3 MB -Cumulative Update for Windows 10 (KB3199125) 466.3 MB -Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 (KB3200068) 549.4 MB -Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems (KB3200068) 1056.9 MB -Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3197356) 760.6 MB -Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 (KB3197356) 404.5 MB it really sucks to be an IT guyy....
MS decided to ape Arch Linux which an approach good for most people but bad for any stable operation. The point is that Arch Linux doesn't have a LTS version and that's for a reason: would be too complicate to maintain. In short if you have a server and you don't want to risk a mess on each update you have to choose something else, Centos, Ubuntu LTS or whatever. Now MS is forced to follow both the approaches, which is something that hardly will be sustainable in the long run.
It's not such a big problem since most professional IT environments are likely going to stick with the LTSB branch, which is good for some years, no fragmentation there, kind of the way it was with previous Windows versions. But I agree that even in smaller environments (down to the individual) two versions a year is too much. I'd prefer it if Microsoft would follow the Apple route, and release a new OS version once a year. Now they lied when they said Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, because we already got three different versions of this last version. And, even better, I'd welcome if they dropped that incremental build s**t once and for all, and just deliver everything the cumulative way (with updated ISOs once a year). It's just insane that you still have to perform an in-place upgrade for every new build (and download 2+ GB of data just for changes worth a few MB). That's the ancient way to do it. Component-based servicing applied to the entire OS is the way to go, if they really want to provide Windows "as a service". Example: 1) Release updates and features to the preview folks (and internal testers). 2) After two weeks, if it turns out to be stable, release it to consumers (general public) - include features only if they ready. 3) After two weeks, if it turns out to be stable, release it to business users (as optional) - include features only if they ready. 4) Once a year, provide a rollup to mission-critical systems that just received security updates in the meantime. No branch fragmentation, just one branch and staged delivery of updates and features.
Well... it depends on how many LTSB they decide to release in the future. If they release one per year there will be 10 LTSB flavors before the LTSB 2015 becomes totally unsupported. Not my idea of unfragmented OS.
Last I heard was every three years. The 2016 one was an out-of-band release, maybe because the 2015 one wasn't really a finished version.
Yes makes sense, three years, would be the same time frame between two of the older Win XX releases, obviously exuding XP which was a notable exception.
LTSB will probably follow Windows Server releases. However, Version 1511 is still supported but we will have to wait for Version 1704 to see will they drop support for Version 1511.
and that is exactly why linux will not beat windows, too many lions chasing too many zebras. windows 10 is now a complete fustercluck
business as usual and will no doubt involve a greasy finger for the end user, truly business as usual
At first people complained, that Windows is not updated quite enough and developed slowly, now it is vice-versa. 10 is the last Windows, so this is the way, it is gonna be. IT guys know, how to handle it, so do not worry about them.
Most IT professionals don't work for Giant Enterprises that are willing/able to pay the exorbitant prices to get LTSB.
The updates get bigger than the thing they're updating real pita church service I was at lost it's computer display, cause Win 10 just had to update and they hadn't set up the update schedule to prevent that hilarious LTSB for me ...T
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