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You just had to go and install smoothly so the only thing I could rant about was the length of time to do the actual install. Set it away late last night - woke up to a fully functioning anniversary update. So far, everything is still working; no issues to report.
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Ho ... really?
Checking... downloading now... 
It is damn slow indeed!!!
Damn you Windows Update!  
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I just set it off downloading, and when I looked it had reached 89%. I go back a few minutes later to see a "something went wrong" message with a button to try again.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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You have my sympathy.
This space for rent
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And all is right with the world again. 
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Windows is now telling me it isn't activated and it also won't let me edit anything in the registry!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: no issues to report.
Any actual improvements?
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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No sign of it being available here so far. The only update I've had is a Windows Defender definition update.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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All they had to do to make me happy was go and revert the code that made connecting to VPN so annoying, yet they didn't.
And yes, it took longer to install the update than it took to install it as an original install. Crazy.
Struggling to see anything different. Then again, I don't use Cortana and I don't use Edge.
They really should have called it Windows 10.1 and given it a pretty new wallpaper. Then it would be blindingly obvious it's a Big New Thing (yeah, Apple. I'm raising my eyebrows at you).
"Anniversary Edition". Just when I think the naming gurus at Microsoft can't get any worse.
(Yeah, I'm having a post-upgrade-letdown day where the excitement and dopamine and all worn off and left me with nothing but old coffee grinds)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The real secret to this was that MS only updated the last update date as the anniversary update.
Having managed to get that right, you give them Kudos . . .
. . . actually, now that I think of it, that's one of the smartest moves they've made in years!
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I upgraded from the ISO on MSDN (ran setup.exe to upgrade, rather than doing a clean install) and the upgrade was completed well within an hour. Mind you, the machine being upgraded is a pretty snappy i5 with 16GB of RAM and an SSD.
It probably would've gone a lot faster if the ISO itself hadn't been sitting on an old and slow Atom-based machine that happened to be very busy at the time (both disk and CPU still sitting at 100% as I'm writing this in fact).
I had been running a number of Insider versions on a VM for months, so there was no real surprise, but one thing I didn't expect is that it removed the DisplayLink software I had (essentially a driver) as it's apparently no longer needed for my USB3-to-VGA adapter.
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Crikey! Australia is Moving Six Feet North![^]
Quote: Every year the Australian continent drifts about 2.7 inches north because of the slow sliding of the Earth's lithosphere. It's hardly enough to trip you up, but it can throw off any computer system that relies on pinpoint map accuracy.
At this rate, within a few tens of millions of years "Down Under" will become "Up Over" 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Tie me Kangaroo country down, sport, tie me Kangaroo country down...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We are coming!!
Just you wait!  
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As long as you bring the barbie and the beer...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Someone should tell your politicians they need to rethink their immigration plans. Once the wreckage of Indonesia piles up on your northern coast intercepting their boats at sea won't work very well. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Someone should tell your politicians they need to rethink their immigration plans.
Bitch puleeze!
Our politicians have now, and have never had, any plans for anything.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Our politicians have now, and have never had, any plans for anything.
. . . sounds like a plan . . .
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Plenty of products are labelled new and improved. I am not really sure if that can be correct. If something is new, how can it be improved? Improved compared to what?
Slow day here. Got lot of useless things to think about.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Improved compared to what it replaces, is all.
If you design a new phone from the ground up and it shares nothing with the previous model, then it is both "new" and "improved".
But many companies us the phrase to mean "made with cheaper ingredients / components but you're so dumb you won't notice while it makes us loads more money" 
In the UK, Tesco use it to mean "we sell a lot of this, so the accountants had a look and now it tastes of nothing" 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That begs for another question. Say I have a hand sanitizer that claims to kill 99.9% germs. Great! Then they come up with new version which still kills 99.9% germs but is labelled improved. Either they are just rounding off some high precision number for the label or it is improved in the the sense that it now has the word improved on the label.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Or it contains stuff which is nicer for your hands, or smells better while still killing the same percentage of germs.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or the actually improved the package...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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