Windows 10: Microsoft reveals how Windows 10 is evolving with each update

Microsoft has always touted Windows 10 as the last version of Windows, although technically it will be the last version number as the OS will continue to evolve. There won’t be Windows 11 or 12 because new features and improvements are designed to come out as part of Windows 10 rather than as new releases.

As of now, Windows 10 is receiving feature updates twice a year and cumulative updates are being released twice a month with security fixes. Windows 10 is now three years old and the company recently posted a chart that shows how the operating system is getting better with the introduction of new enhanced security & consumer-focused features.

Michael Niehaus, Principal Program Manager, Windows & Devices Group, modern deployment team at Microsoft recently shared an image of the chart which shows off the features of Windows 10.



You can find the entire list of Windows 10 features below:

• Windows Analytics — Spectre & Meltdown.
• Delivery Optimization, Application Reliability.
• Logon Health.
• WDATP Automated Remediation.
• Conditional Access based on WDATP device risk.
• Threat Analytics.
• Emergency Outbreak Updates
• Advanced hunting.
• Cloud Credential Guard.
• Diagnostic data viewer.
• Windows AutoPilot enrollment status page.
• Windows 10 Enterprise in S mode.
• Shared Windows Devices.
• Nearby Sharing.
• Dictation.
• Timeline.
• Windows Defender Exploit Guard, System Guard.
• Application Guard, Application Control.
• Mobile Device Management.
• Windows Analytics Update Compliance.
• Windows Analytics Device Health.
• Co-management.
• Enterprise search in Windows.
• Continue on PC.
• OneDrive Files On-Demand.
• Narrator.
• Mixed Reality Viewer.
• Windows AutoPilot.
• Windows Defender ATP.
• Windows Defender Security Center.
• Express update delivery.
• Hyper-V Windows 10 Subscription Activatio.
• Windows Insider Program for Business.
• Paint 3D.
• Cortana at work.
• Night light, mini view.
• Windows Information Protection.
• Windows Hello for Business.
• Windows Analytics Upgrade Readiness.
• App-V, UE-V.
• Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join.
• Windows Ink.
• Mobile Device Management.
• AAD Join.
• Windows Store for Business.
• Windows Update for Business Mail, Calendar, Photos, Maps, Groove, Skype.
• Windows Defender Antivirus.
• Windows Hello.
• Microsoft Edge.
• Device Guard.
• Credential Guard.
• BitLocker.
• SmartScreen.
• Windows as a service.
• In-place upgrades.
• Continuum.
• Cortana.
• Windows 10 core.

Since its release three years ago, Windows 10 has added lots of new stuff. pic.twitter.com/hQY535lcaU

— Michael Niehaus (@mniehaus) July 30, 2018
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If you’re interested, you can see the large image here.

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Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards



Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7

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MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7.

Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977.

Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.

Both Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."

The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off.

Then Microsoft did a silly, silly thing.

It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to.

So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly.

We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user.

Microsoft has, by offering a workaround, suggested heavily that it won't be fixing the problem, though we have asked the question, so expect a response in about a fortnight.

But the real kicker is this piece of advice: "Note The Secure Boot feature is supported in Windows 10. To learn more about the security advantages of this feature and about the upgrade path from Windows 7 to Windows 10, go to the following Windows website"

Holy toledo, this company really knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

After all - if the advice is to manually avoid the update or move to a version of the operating system where there's virtually no control over updates, then Microsoft is dealing in massive contradictions.

A more cynical site would suggest that it's yet another example of Microsoft running Windows 7 into the ground and adding built in obsolescence to encourage quicker updates. But we're not that sort of site.

Its the patching to force secure boot that is the problem win 7 does not support secure boot
hence it borks systems and well microsofts answer is Cactus >your Asshole > insert

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