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Today, in a post on the Windows blog, John Cable, Director of Program Management, Windows Servicing and Delivery, recommends that users don’t manually install the Creators Update, but rather wait until it’s automatically offered. /sigh. Really?
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I noticed a slight error in the thread title.
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I put it down to the constant desire to freshen and invigorate a corporate image.
I mean, we all know that Microsoft has been ****ing itself for decades now....
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Well, that headline isn't misleading or click-bait-y at all, is it? 
Microsoft: If you force it to install manually, some things might not work at first.
BetaNews: OMG, Microsoft sez don't install it EVAH!!!1!!
"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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What I wish MS would do is actually provide insight into which of the three potential states my computers are in instead of lumping two of them together.
0) We think your upgrade will go through without problems.
1) We don't have enough data to predict if your upgrade will have problems.
2) We know of a problem item in your system.
The first case is nicely split out as offering it in WU. The other two are just it not being offered; and as the owner of DIY boxes my specific hardware mixes aren't any of the widely sold OEM systems that they can get results on by testing on 0.1% of the available systems. As a result I tend to be offered rather late in the game when they give up and offer to everyone. Since I know they're not going to be able to effectively test my setup in total for the first condition, I'd really like them to let me know if any of my specific hardware bits land me in the 3rd bucket in a way that *will* make me fall back to a system backup.
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: 0) We think your upgrade will go through without problems.
1) We don't have enough data to predict if your upgrade will have problems.
2) We know of a problem item in your system.
The first case is nicely split out as offering it in WU. The other two are just it not being offered;
And miss the whole bunch of beta testers? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is secretly building his own giant airship inside a NASA hangar, Bloomberg reports today. It's what all the supervillains will be wanting next year
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Wow, Sergey is pretty bad at building SECRET airships... 
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Yeah, I'm not even rich and you guys don't even know about my secret airship, yet.
Oops.
Well, at least you'll never find it.
It's built completely of air.
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Because airships have been sooo successful.
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My undercover guys tell me that he's going to demand ONE MILLION DOLLARS, if his demands aren't met.
Groovy!
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Articles by Jonathan Allen;
".NET Futures: Type Classes and Extensions" [^] April, 12 ... quotes and code examples from Mads Torgensen
"C# Futures: Read-Only References and Structs" [^] April, 19
"C# Futures: Read-Only Local Variables" [^] April, 24
Other articles in this series are listed on the site.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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BillWoodruff wrote: ".NET Futures: Type Classes and Extensions" [^] April, 12 ... quotes and code examples from Mads Torgensen
Having raged about limitations in what interfaces could add in the past (eg not static), I'm all for this one. The others look interesting but I don't see any immediate impact on anything I've written.
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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Is it broken?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Perhaps the idempotent question is: are we broken >
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Well, given that the best idempotent answers are recursive, it's safe to say that we're either broken or not, until the box is opened.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Commentary on arstechnica when it first launched felt that it was probably closer to an internal feed to MS's bug/etc database thus making things easier on their side; and that while its being programmatically queryable left the door open for neat new report types in the future they elepanted the pooch by jumping the gun and not having out of the box reports that approximated the old presentation format.
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: they elepanted the pooch by jumping the gun and not having out of the box reports that approximated the old presentation format
Or several different report styles, or report templates.
Any decent customer support engineer would have had all that in place -- and what would it have cost them? A few hours?
A lot less than reading all the complaints will cost.
Really. It's become a prime example of a cr@p company.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's the agile flavor of deadline driven development at is finest alright. The release date was frozen so they slashed features to hit it. 
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: The release date was frozen so they slashed features to hit it.
 Doesn't everyone do that?
(e.g. in order to have a product ready in time for the next computer show)
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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Shirley, but "the next computer show" isn't every two weeks.
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SophosLabs has discovered a new spam campaign where ransomware is downloaded and run by a macro hidden inside a Word document that is in turn nested within a PDF, like a Russian matryoshka doll. "Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum"
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It's like a mystery wrapped in an enigma!
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