Windows 'Threshold' and cadence: How fast is too fast?

Brink · Aug 25, 2014

With Microsoft expected to make available a public technical preview of Windows Threshold around late September or early October, it's a good time to revisit the thorny cadence question.

For individual consumers, especially power users, Microsoft can't release new versions of Windows quick enough. But for many IT pros, a new version of Windows every year is too fast for them to test and update to their liking.

Microsoft is believed to be trying to change the way users of all stripes think about "new releases" and updates starting with Threshold.

As I blogged previously, tipsters claim Microsoft will make monthly updates a mandatory part of participation in the upcoming Threshold technical preview. That preview, by the way, is aimed at enterprise users, according to sources of both mine and Neowin's. It's expected to show users some of what's new in the desktop experience and be limited to running on Intel-based PCs/devices.

There will be a separate preview of Threshold running on ARM processors, too. My sources are saying the current target date for that preview is January or February 2015. As the ARM-based version of Threshold -- which should run on both Windows Phones and tablets -- isn't expected to include the Windows desktop, the focus will be on changes Microsoft is making to the Metro-Style Start screen environment.

Windows Threshold, which is widely expected to make its debut as "Windows 9," is expected to be released in the spring of 2015, I continue to hear. It's after that point that the cadence will really start to matter.
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Coke Robot · Aug 25, 2014

That's kind of bloody fast for me. Windows Phone 8.1 just barely got released and the PC side of things is already getting up to version 9. But as usual, Windows Phone 9 will have things that will end up making it to Windows in the next update.

I'm excited for RT and the merging of that with Windows Phone sans Desktop UI. A Surface 3 with N-Trig technology and full blooded WinRT moderness....yum. *Smile

The only way I see for making Windows version updating nice enough to the point where upgrade installs aren't so terrible is when the day WinRT rules over Win32. That's ALWAYS been the issue with Windows, the whole backend code that has traditionally been the crux of issues with Windows. WinRT doesn't allow for deep access to system resources and files, only if it's first party like IE. That means less issues cropping up from old programs that have compatibility get broken due to the new OS. Only issue would be drivers.

:)

DaniëlPlooij · Aug 25, 2014

Slow startup after Windows 10 Threshold 2 update

Here the same "Very slow boot" and slow "Login Windows" screen after Threshold 2 update.

I have a Alienware Area-51 R2 (2014) PC with Windows 10 x64 PRO.

Before this Threshold 2 update it was all super fast.

AntanasSkucas · Aug 25, 2014

Wacom driver and external monitor(LT1423p)

Thanks for reply

That
link is not helping. I tried unistall drive and delete driver(usaly it reinstalls it self after 1s)... Show or hide tool not helping too(it's not working because driver reinstalls to fast).. Also I can't see wacom driver in "uninstall an update" list as
it was before ‘Threshold 2’ update.

For now is only one sulution turn off all internet activity or disable windows update. It looks like wacom driver is included to ‘Threshold 2’.

Trust_No1 · Apr 4, 2018

Let's see (ummmm), at this rate we will hit Windows 14 in the fall of 2016, not bad.

Windows 'Threshold' and cadence: How fast is too fast?

Windows 'Threshold' and cadence: How fast is too fast?

Windows 'Threshold' and cadence: How fast is too fast?

Windows 'Threshold' and cadence: How fast is too fast?

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