In re The View of Paul Thurrott (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) ...
Paul's comments are all on point and I sure do especially have to agree with this one:
Bad: Windows as a Service. This one barely averted a place in the “ugly” category because Microsoft seems to be on the right track from a reliability perspective. But the sheer pace of change that Microsoft is inflicting on its customers both consumer and business is simply untenable. Windows is a mature platform, it doesn’t need major upgrades ever six months.
Once a year would be just fine with me for new features and functions.
That said, this update by Paul on Redstone 5 is worth a read:
>> Hands-On with Redstone 5: The Future Comes Into Focus
thurrott.com
Six weeks after my first exploratory look at the next version of Windows 10, I’m happy to report that my initial impression still stands. Microsoft, very clearly, is going to focus on core productivity features in “Redstone 5,” and has—at least so far—ignored introducing more of the type of nonsense that dogged the previous two feature updates. That said, there has been one major step backward: Microsoft has apparently decided that the Sets feature—which adds tabs to application windows—won’t reach an appropriate level of quality in time for Redstone 5. And it has removed this feature from testing, at least for now. That’s interesting mostly because Sets was going to be the only major new feature in Redstone 5. You can see what I mean by reviewing the list of Redstone 5 features I documented in Hands-On with Redstone 5: The Early Days.
Today, over seven weeks later, we’re at an interesting juncture. At the time of that first write-up, Microsoft had released 11 Redstone 5 builds. But since then, it has released 6 more, by my count. And we’re at roughly the halfway point between that first write-up and the time at which Redstone 5 will become feature complete. So this is a great time to step back and see what else we’ve learned about this next release. Here are the Redstone 5 features we’ve learned about in the past six weeks. ... <Snip rest: Read full text at the link above> ... <<
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