Windows 10: Report suggests Microsoft’s Windows 10 X is still immature

2020 could be the year of foldable and dual-screen devices from smartphone and PC makers. Microsoft has also planned to enter this new market with two products, Windows 10X-powered Surface Neo and Android-powered Surface Duo.

Windows 10 X, Microsoft’s new operating system, is set to power the first wave of foldable and dual-screen hardware scheduled for holiday 2020. Surface Neo would be the first the hardware to ship with Windows 10 X, but the Redmond giant is also readying the OS for dual-screen PCs from partners.

Windows 10 X is expected to power the dual-screen PCs developed by Microsoft OEM partners like HP, Dell, and Lenovo.

A leak recently confirmed that Windows 10 X will be coming to laptops and other traditional PC form factors in future, but it appears that the operating system is still immature.



According to a new report, Intel may not promote foldable notebooks because of the slow-paced development of the operating system and insufficient flexible panel supply.

Intel’s dual-screen prototype features a 17-inch display and it would run Windows 10 X, but the company will delay the unveiling — originally scheduled for CES 2020 — due to issues with “immature OS support”.

The report cites ‘upstream supply chain’ as the source of the rumour and it also adds that Intel won’t promote foldable notebooks until mid-2020.

Windows 10 X was announced at the October 2019 event and Microsoft has since guarded it under much secrecy. Microsoft hasn’t revealed when it plans to roll out Windows 10 X, but the operating system is rumoured to finalize sometime in 2020, a few months or weeks before the launch of Surface Neo and other foldable devices.

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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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