Windows 10: Windows 10 "Threshold 2" won't be ready on Nov 2nd.

Three years in Development and it still is not ready. Two delays and the head of The Windows Division takes off a year to sail around the world? To me that is a problem. But that is my opinion yours may very.

 

No I would rather they set realistic goals and not be a tease like Gabe Aul.

 

Gary, I take my hat off to you. As contrary people go, you're up there with the most gripey. What does it take to evoke a smile?

 

That's a perfectly valid point of view. On the other hand, the Earth is +- a year or two 4.543 billion years old and is still evolving. Do you kick up about that as well and as often as about Microsoft? Does the Earth pay more attention to you than Microsoft?

I recommend reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", grabbing a towel and relaxing. Preferably with a nice pint of Guinness.

 

Hopefully Microsoft saw Jim's forum post and decided to delay until they could make the Edge "Back" arrow work like every other browser's Back button!

 

If my system is going to be jacked up right before the holidays, I'm hoping the improvements will make me a sandwich after I'm done getting screwed. Better yet, I hope it's put off until axe murder season ... around the end of Jan.

 

Well, for what it's worth, neither Gabe nor Microsoft ever claimed that TH2 would be publicly available on November 2nd.

This huge snowball began when Paul Thurrott claimed such info on his site, reportedly from close sources of the Windows division but, as many other times, he was wrong. It was kind of a rumour but, because of the wording he used, most people took it as the truth.

Yes, it would seem that Microsoft's original plan was to have it ready for the first week of November, but I believe it's better to delay it and get a more polished build.

Cheers!

 

*Ditto*Ditto*Ditto

 

I quit reading Thurrott's stuff way back when I was Beta Testing Vista and later Windows 7. And, he's not the only journalist who will word things so they look like the truth, but when called on it, can prove, "That's not what I said."

As a long-time Beta Tester of Microsoft Product; some 30 years (have I been doing this all that long!?), I can say that no matter how hard any company tries, there are going to be times that they just can't meet a goal they've set.

Y'know what's really amazing? Microsoft has given us new Builds early many times. Did we give Microsoft the kudos deserved for that! H E Double Toothpick, NO, we didn't. But let Microsoft lag so much as a week behind schedule and they're dirty, rotten, (you say the next few words).

 

"H E Double Toothpick"
Well this is peculiar. Never heard of this one.

 

Spell it out, Computiac. *Smile I heard it way, way back when I was in grade school. We weren't allowed to say the word.

 

*Ditto

 

I'm really glad it won't be ready by Nov. 2. It's a mess right now. These right-click Context Menus are HIDEOUS. Why are they huge and unevenly spaced, and dark??? Makes no sense on a non-tablet/touchscreen computer.

 

. . .done with thread. . .just becoming another Microsoft just cannot do anything the way I want it thread. . .and that's the truth whether you think so or not. . .*really