Windows 10 anniversary update will take months to complete

It’s been a month since the anniversary update was released, which has some people wondering why their Windows 10 computers haven’t yet been updated.

It turns out that Microsoft is being extraordinarily cautious, and doesn’t expect the rollout to be complete until November. Thankfully, the update can be installed manually using the Windows 10 Upgrade Tool.

Microsoft’s caution makes sense when you consider what they are doing with Windows testing. It appears that Microsoft is doing a lot less testing in-house, and pinning its hopes on user feedback. The anniversary update is being rolled out first to computers that – based on their hardware and configuration – are least likely to experience problems. This only confirms Microsoft’s disdain for power users, because they are much more likely to encounter problems.

If Microsoft hates power users so much, why don’t they just come out and say it. Then we can all just move to Linux and forget about Windows, except as an object of ridicule.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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