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What’s going to be in the “Anniversary Update”?

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What’s going to be in the “Anniversary Update”?

from JoeUser Forums

 

On August second, the following features are being added (along with various ‘fixes’ for current bugs).

They’re summarized in two articles from TechRepublic:

The first cites “Windows Information Protection” (a.k.a. Enterprise Data Protection):

“1. The feature uses containerisation file techniques to keep personal and enterprise data separate, as well as imposing various controls over who can access which data.

2. Windows 10 Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP), a service for detecting online threats and attacks. While Windows 10 already includes the Windows Defender antivirus, this new service will attempt to spot emerging threats by analysing large amounts of security data and suggest responses to breaches. WDATP has been tested by 300 enterprises ahead of launch.” – TechRepublic

My take is that number one will be made available to Home users, while one and two will be made available for Enterprise users.

For more regarding the big five changes, I’d suggest looking at the second article in Sources, below. They include extensions and changes to Edge:

“Supported extensions include AdBlock, Evernote, the LastPass password manager, Microsoft Translator, which automatically translates pages into more than 50 different languages, an extension to augment mouse gestures support, and the Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Another extension will allow users to create, edit and view Office files from inside the Edge browser, without having to install Microsoft Office.

Outside of extensions, the Edge browser will allow users to pin tabs for their favorite sites and web apps, so they always have a tab open in the browser.” – ibid

The Start Menu:

The broad design of the Windows 10 Start Menu will stay the same, with the familiar list of application shortcuts on left and the menu of tiles on the right.

However, there are changes. The new look Start menu makes the 'All Apps' list visible by default on the left-hand side. At the top of this permanently visible 'All Apps' list, are a selection of the user's 'Most used' and 'Recently added' apps. Microsoft says the change should reduce the clicking and scrolling needed to access apps. The menu's Power, Settings and File Explorer links have been squashed into the far left of the menu, and now appear as icons on a left-hand rail, rather than an icon and a label. The look of the Start menu in tablet mode has also been overhauled, turning the 'All Apps' list into a fullscreen menu, reminiscent of the Windows 8.1 Start screen.” – ibid

There are more…take a look at the first article in Sources. They include Taskbar tweaks, a “cleverer Cortana” (AI), Windows Hello extended to apps and the web with an extended biometric login, a new hub for digital pens, a customizable action center, more control over when updates happen (no deferring for Home users, but control over when the reboot happens with “Active Hours”). Also an improved Settings app, and features being migrated from the control panel to other areas like Network and Internet category. A Quick Assist app with transferred control to the other person. Easier activation. Better security…for Enterprise E5 users…not Home users. There are also technical improvements like access to the command line interpreter and allow W10 to run a variety of Ubuntu software without a virtual machine or third party tools. There are more…so, give the articles a look.

 

 

Sources:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-anniversary-update-to-land-on-august-2nd/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-build-5-big-moves-you-need-to-know/

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Or open settings>update and security. Click on learn more and it will take you to the update.

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 51

Or open settings>update and security. Click on learn more and it will take you to the update.

Click banner that says: Join the Celebration - get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update today

download the .exe and update will start.

So if its not "Mandatory" why the hell would I want it, especially since it's been making a mess for everyone..... 8C

Siege of Centauri
Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting neone6, reply 52

So if its not "Mandatory" why the hell would I want it, especially since it's been making a mess for everyone.....

If you are on Win 10 Pro you can "defer upgrades".

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/20a98a29-df85-b9e9-f04e-e7812bc903f6/defer-upgrades-in-windows-10

"Some Windows 10 editions let you defer upgrades to your PC. When you defer upgrades, new Windows features won’t be downloaded or installed for several months. Deferring upgrades doesn’t affect security updates. Note that deferring upgrades will prevent you from getting the latest Windows features as soon as they’re available."

So you can stay on your current build for "several months" before AU hits your computer. }:)

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting anotherside, reply 53

So you can stay on your current build for "several months" before AU hits your computer.
Thanks for the Info |-)

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This may or not make you smile, MS is planning two more major updates in 2017 X( :'( >:( :(O , so we will have to go through all of this again, at least Stardock will have time to prepare.

Reply #56 from Stardock Forums Top

I have a brand new PC, so technically, I should be one of the first in line to get the update, but I haven't.

Based on the discussion here, I should count my blessings... :)

Reply #57 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting alaknebs, reply 47


Quoting Avatar137,
reply 42

I hadn't heard about this "anniversary Update" before. I checked my machines and none of them have updated to it. Even when I have them check for updates they all say they are up to date... Not that I'm in any hurry to have MS screw with my systems some more but thought this odd based on reading others here have it, not counting those that did the manual install.



odd thought. did you upgrade to win10 (from 7/8 via windowsupdate) recently?

 

All 3 of my machines (2 desktop PCs and one laptop) were all upgraded from Win7 (1 Pro and the other 2 Home) with the Pro version being upgraded about 2-3 months ago, laptop almost 2 months ago, and the last PC was about a month ago. All were done via Windows Update service.

Reply #58 from Elemental Forums Top

hmm, that long ago, i don't know then.

i had a look at a relative's machine. he upgraded from win8.1 in late july. his version is 1511 (threshold 2). the 1607 update hasn't popped for him yet (did a manual check just before i saw your reply.). mind you. at least he wasn't on 1507 (the one from last summer)

reason i asked... was that around the time when 1511 came out, i read somewhere that people going from 7/8.1 wasn't given the 1511 update, but had to stick with 1507 for 1 month (so they can roll back to win7/8.1). guess that doesn't apply anymore.

in any case, ms will get you when they get you XD

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If your PC is NOT downloading the the new update (which is really a freaking whole new UPGRADE) you should stop before you download it yourself from any of the links and check your PC update history. What I learned with one of my PC's and have seen happen to a lot of other folks is that some PC's are missing updates  that came out prior to this and that is why it is not installing automatically.

I haven't come across any explanations yet, as to why or what has caused a handful of PC's to miss updates (I thought both of mine were up to date but one was missing about 7 previous updates.)

It will show you which ones you're missing and you can just click 'yes' and it will download and install them (which is how it worked for me) restarting your PC several times...and THEN it will download the latest update/upgrade and install. My PC restarted so many times, I stopped counting. I just let it go until it was done.

I've seen where people have interupted the whole process, thinking it was done, or trying to force install the update when they were 'missing' previous updates.

What's cool (I'm probably repeating myself) is that you can make a USB stick of the upgrade and do it that way, like they did with the original upgrade a year ago, and have it all saved on the usb stick. I don't know how long it will stay good but I imagine as long as you're using a legitimate copy of Windows and all that, it should be good anytime you need it if you have to rreinstall Windows 10.

***The reason I keep calling this new update and 'upgrade' is that the first things I noticed was that my Windows Update files was set back to zero (saying I have not installed any updates, ever) and the whole process created a 'Windows.old' file in This PC>Windows (C:)>Windows.old.

The file is about 30GB in size on my main PC and about 18GB on the other, both dated the day of the update (08/02/2016). So , I assume like the original upgrade, you can use this if you need to go back and reinstall. I plan to hold onto it for at least three to six months, just in case.

Reply #60 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

One weird thing I've noticed with Win10, and I'm not sure if it was happening on Win7 or not as I didn't have Winstep Nexus installed on that PC when Win7 was on it, is that I always have 309kb of out going traffic if nothing else is going on. Yes, I have various programs that supposedly have shut off the Win10 feature of using my PC as a torrent site and it's also turned off within Win10 itself. If I disable the connection it goes to 0kb. Task manager also diesn't show any activity at all, only Nexus' (similar to Objectdock which I also use but not for monitoring net traffic) program shows this activity...

Reply #61 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

This update got forced on me today, and except for the fact that it took hours and hours to complete, it seems to have worked with no problems that I've noticed so far.  On the plus side, I'm leaving home for a while soon, and I'm happy that it got downloaded while I was still at home with a relatively high speed link.