Build 10049

Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan, the
new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF. Speedier
than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so that's not a real
benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.
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SC Tom

SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan,
the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF.
Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so
that's not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the
latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Out of curiosity, is this another 3.5GB download ?

It hasn't been that many days since 10041 came in.

Paul

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:31:30 -0400, Paul wrote:

Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan,
the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF.
Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so
that's not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the
latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Out of curiosity, is this another 3.5GB download ?

Could be. It arrived in the form of a humongous update involving four
or five reboots first thing this morning, and took ages to complete.
By the time I'd got dressed and finished my breakfast, it was still
going. Luckily I've got a reasonably fast internet connection, but
Microsoft are going to annoy a lot of people if they fail to remember
that not everybody has.

It hasn't been that many days since 10041 came in.

10041 is still the downloadable ISO on the Microsoft site. If you want
to do a fresh install of 10049 I suppose you'll have to find one of
the unofficial versions for the time being.

Rod.

"Paul" wrote in message
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SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan,
the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF.
Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so that's
not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Out of curiosity, is this another 3.5GB download ?

It hasn't been that many days since 10041 came in.

Paul

I really don't know. I wasn't paying attention (watching a tennis match)
when AOAS, the screen goes blue (light blue, not BSOD blue), and says
Restarting. I didn't realize it was for a new build until the dialog screen
came up with the infamous "Sit back and relax" line LOL!!

Is there a place on-disc where the build installations are stored? I did a
Search Everything for 10049 and came up with 36,278 objects! ~1,500 files
and folders were dated today, but the largest single file was 12Mb.
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SC Tom

SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan,
the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF.
Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so
that's not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the
latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Do you have to be on the fast cycle to get this version?

In article , , Dino
says...

SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan,
the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF.
Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so
that's not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the
latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Do you have to be on the fast cycle to get this version?

Yeah, I believe so. Or you can wait a week or so for the ISO release.

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Duncan.

"Dino" wrote in message
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SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for Spartan,
the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE and FF.
Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any more, so that's
not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference than the latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Do you have to be on the fast cycle to get this version?

Mine's set to Fast, although I thought it was at Slow before the update. It
was probably at Fast, too, even if I don't remember changing it.
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SC Tom

In message , SC Tom writes


"Dino" wrote in message
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SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Do you have to be on the fast cycle to get this version?

Mine's set to Fast, although I thought it was at Slow before the
update. It was probably at Fast, too, even if I don't remember changing
it.

I have a machine set to fast and a machine set to slow. The fast one
updated, the slow one didn't.
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Bill

In message , Paul writes
SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)
Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for
Spartan, the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of IE
and FF. Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any
more, so that's not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference
than the latest FF.
For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this
build.

Out of curiosity, is this another 3.5GB download ?

Yes, it must have been. I'm in France at the moment and I tried first to
access a web server I have running on my Windows 10 machine. No joy, so
I tried to log on to it this morning via remote desktop. I couldn't, so
I thought it must have crashed. I checked my Internet usage over the
last 24 hours and discovered that there was a tremendous amount of
activity during the night - 3-4 gigabytes.

Anyhow I tried the Win 10 web server again this lunchtime and it was up
and running. So I tried remote desktop. Yes, it's up but a blank screen
- no display! After several tries - even going to another computer at
home via remote desktop and thence to the Windows 10 machine - I
eventually got a display and, yes, it was 10049!

Pity I didn't read here first then I would have known what was
happening!

It hasn't been that many days since 10041 came in.

That's why I didn't expect another complete version so soon.

David

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David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France

In message , SC Tom writes


"Dino" wrote in message
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SC Tom wrote:
Just got it installed. Sure do wish it would ask first- how rude!! ;-)

Nothing looks any different so far except I have a shortcut for
Spartan, the new MS browser. Looks and acts almost like a hybrid of
IE and FF. Speedier than what I'm used to with IE (hardly use it any
more, so that's not a real benchmark), but no noticeable difference
than the latest FF.

For those interested, Classic Shell still works fine with this build.

Do you have to be on the fast cycle to get this version?

Mine's set to Fast, although I thought it was at Slow before the
update. It was probably at Fast, too, even if I don't remember changing
it.

I had just set mine to slow, but haven't checked to see what it is now!

David

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David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France

Can't get Project Spartan to work. It crashes on start up and I have to
use Task Manager to get out of it!.

Also it seems to have installed two Korean apps - a Korean Media Player
Centre and a Korean Messenger Centre. How bizarre!

David

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David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France

On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:50:28 +0100, David Rance
wrote:

Can't get Project Spartan to work. It crashes on start up and I have to
use Task Manager to get out of it!.

No problems here. It seems to function as a web browser, though a very
basic - well - Spartan one. For setting the home page for instance, it
doesn't even include the option of going to the page of your choice
and then clicking a button marked "Use current page", like any of the
other browsers I've used. You have to type the URL into a settings box
and make sure to get it right. I didn't even see a means of saving
bookmarks, though to be honest I haven't wasted much time with it. I
don't see anything to entice me away from Firefox.

Given that its fundamental function as a web browser is unusually
devoid of features and settings for something from Microsoft, I was
surprised to see a new gimmick that must have taken quite a bit of
programming effort but for which I can see no use at all. Click on one
of the buttons and you can then choose a colour and scribble over the
screen, as in a painting program, but using the web page as a
background. Perhaps this is to enable busy (or not really busy)
executives to relieve frustration or something, but it would make more
sense to me for a web browser to have features related to browsing web
pages, and perhaps saving their details for future reference. I'm
definitely staying with Firefox.

Rod.

David Rance wrote on 4/2/2015 5:50 AM:
Can't get Project Spartan to work. It crashes on start up and I have to use Task Manager to get out of it!.

Also it seems to have installed two Korean apps - a Korean Media Player Centre and a Korean Messenger Centre. How bizarre!

David

Ditto here.
The korean things are just links, so I deleted them, both desktop and menu.

"David Rance" wrote in message
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Can't get Project Spartan to work. It crashes on start up and I have to
use Task Manager to get out of it!.

Also it seems to have installed two Korean apps - a Korean Media Player
Centre and a Korean Messenger Centre. How bizarre!

David

I feel slighted- I didn't get the Korean anything, and my Spartan works,
such as it is :-(
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SC Tom

In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:50:28 +0100, David Rance
wrote:

Can't get Project Spartan to work. It crashes on start up and I have to
use Task Manager to get out of it!.

No problems here. It seems to function as a web browser, though a very
basic - well - Spartan one.

Then the clue is in the name! I suppose that's what we should have
expected!

Oh, I've discovered that can get it to work if I click on a URL, but
not if I just fire it up from its icon.

David

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David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France