Microsoft Delays Windows 10 Threshold 2, Launch Now Planned in November - Report

[Batu69]

Redmond needs more time to complete work on the update

The first big update for Windows 10 was originally projected to ship in October, three months after the release of the operating system, but it turns out that the company pushed back the launch for another 30 days because it needs more time to complete work and refine features that are included.

The Windows 10 October Update (now likely to be called November Update) will launch in early November, according to a report by WinBeta, and by that date, Microsoft is very likely to complete the Windows 10 rollout and make the upgrade available to all PCs that qualify for the free offer across the world.

While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on its post-Windows 10 plans, it’s not a secret that a major update is coming, but as you can see, the company’s struggling to avoid providing us with any timing information because delays can always take place and the Softies are trying to avoid any criticism in case they miss the date.

The same happens with the Windows 10 Insider Preview program, as Microsoft has never disclosed a release date, explaining that, in case any bugs are found, the launch can be easily pushed back without anyone knowing about it and without causing frustration among users.

Redstone also on its way

Right now, it’s still unclear what is the name that Microsoft wants to use for this first big update, with some sources claiming that Threshold 2 is very unlikely and November Update has more chances to become the moniker of this release.

But obviously, there are also chances to see Microsoft rolling out this update just like any other regular one, so the company might ignore naming with this release.

On the other hand, there’s another bigger update in the pipeline for Windows 10 users and this is internally codenamed Redstone. Its launch is expected to take place in 2016 and will bring several new features and improvements to the core OS.

The November Update, on the other hand, will focus mostly on bug fixes and performance optimizations but will also include several new features, among which extension support for Microsoft Edge.

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[Israeli_Eagle]

They need first more (stupid) users for the next Skynet step... B)

[steven36]

They need first more (stupid) users for the next Skynet step... B)

I'm dead serious. There is apparently a growing and very vocal population of people who believe that Windows 10 is basically a 1984 telescreen come to life. They are convinced that with Windows 10 Microsoft has built a spying apparatus not seen since the height of the Cold War, scraping up every detail of your life and feeding it back to Redmond for who knows what nefarious purposes.

They're going to need lots of tinfoil.

They're also either wildly misinformed or deliberately agitating. Unless, of course, they're just crazy, which is entirely possible based on some of what I've read.

That's not true. It's wildly at odds with the facts, even. I keep tabs on a handful of well-established torrent sites, orders of magnitude larger than the ones complaining here, and none of them seem to have a problem with Windows 10.

There's literally no basis for that statement in fact. And yet you read it here. And on dozens of other sites, unfortunately, where a single lie gets repeated often enough to seep into the collective unconscious.

The bizarre belief that Windows 10 is a spying tool keeps popping up among conspiracy theorists. Via email, a reader sent me a link to this rant by an alternative medical practitioner who apparently is also an expert on the law and IT:

Both of these poor benighted souls and a bunch of other people just like them base their belief on a paragraph from Microsoft's new, unified privacy policy. The clause lists the conditions under which Microsoft "will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders)..."

And those terms only apply to content stored online using Microsoft's services. Here's the earlier part of that agreement, the one that defines the content covered by that clause. This section of the agreement is apparently blocked by tinfoil and invisible to the Microsoft-is-spying brigade:

So yes, if you send and receive email using Microsoft's consumer services or store files in OneDrive, there's a risk that a court could issue Microsoft a subpoena compelling them to hand over that information. (Pro tip: Microsoft offers Office 365 for Health, which provides cloud services and HIPAA compliance for medical professionals who care about that sort of thing.)

But there's no risk that Microsoft is gathering the contents of your local hard disk and sending it to anyone. Zero.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-microsoft-is-not-spying-on-you-with-windows-10/

Fact is Microsoft gave info out long before windows 10 was released and it was a court order involved and it was just people who use there services before they even changed there policy.if you're crazy enough to sign into Microsoft and do something wrong and you get caught. Its no ones fault but you're own. M$ is simply protecting themselves. It dont matter if you're on any Windows O/S or using something else if you use there services there a risk involed just like there is using Google , Yahoo and many many more others and it been like this since right after 9/11. Its nothing new really.