YouTube - Windows 10 Major "April Update" - Best New Features! (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4Wbb6gbCc
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Wed, 09 May 2018 21:21:22 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4Wbb6gbCc

Great video. I'm actually discovering some of the cool features
Microsoft added as a result of this.

On 05/09/2018 08:13 AM, Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Wed, 09 May 2018 21:21:22 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4Wbb6gbCc

Great video. I'm actually discovering some of the cool features
Microsoft added as a result of this.

It was good. Kinda wish MS itself would put something like this out
instead of a written list.

Eric Stevens wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4Wbb6gbCc

Timeline
Repetitive short-term memory loss or dementia have become such an
epidemic that Microsoft has to put a feature into Windows to compensate?
Users can't figure out what to do next on their computer based on what
they were doing before? Geesh. Yeah, more catering to the uber boobs
but only for Microsoft apps. Uh huh, no one uses non-Microsoftware,
like Firefox or Google Chrome instead of Edge or using LibreOffice for
free instead of paying for MS Office. Um, why is enabling/disabling
Timeline feature considered a *privacy* feature? Wonder how long this
experiment will survive.

Diagnostic Data Viewer
The app has been available from Microsoft's store since 4-Dec-2017.
This "feature" just adds it to an existing wizard which, yep, downloads
it from the store.

Graphic power mode per .exe file
You can set the power mode for an app after you go through and list
them. Isn't this about a couple decades late of the same feature in
ancilliary software included with video drivers - except those also let
you select other attributes, like screen resolution. Hardware [game]
profiles disappeared in Windows Vista, so Microsoft brought it back
after an 8 year absence but, at least, without having to restart
Windows.

Startup Settings Menu
Geesh, a fancy front-end to msconfig.exe and, of course, no one has ever
had any other tool to control startup programs (rolls eyes). Weren't
startup managers available back in Windows 95?

Nearby Sharing
Isn't this a clone of Android Beam between smartphones? Since desktops,
laptops, netbooks, and lots of IoTs don't have NFC, Microsoft had to use
Bluetooth and wi-fi. "Once-trumpeted features that quietly go away"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Beam). Rather than restrict
sharing by distance, wouldn't Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or other
cloud services allow sharing without the distance limitation? Plus the
other users don't need to also be using Windows 10.

Delivery Optimization
Wanna bet that setting bandwidth or monthly quota to zero, if allowed,
won't actually block Microsoft from forcing updates on their customers?
Users will still need workarounds to block updates until THEY choose to
be ready (with image backups), can afford the time, and incur the
changes along with new code with new bugs.

Command-mode 'tar' and other utility programs
Geesh, like no one on Windows has ever has a 3rd-party tool to do that,
and with both a CLI and GUI option. Talk about decades too late. All
the others mentioned have also been available as 3rd-party tools for a
VERY long time.

Homegroups are gone
Yeah, like those weren't a mess to replace workgroups. "the end of
HomeGroups, which was an attempt to simplify file sharing that turned
out to be surprisingly complicated"
(https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/micros...m-windows-10/).

If these are considered "major" new features, Microsoft sure has users
well engrained into incrementalism.

In article , VanguardLH
wrote:


Diagnostic Data Viewer
The app has been available from Microsoft's store since 4-Dec-2017.
This "feature" just adds it to an existing wizard which, yep, downloads
it from the store.

the app store has poor engagement so not everyone knows the app is in
the store, plus they *had* to make it front and center for gdpr.



Nearby Sharing
Isn't this a clone of Android Beam between smartphones? Since desktops,
laptops, netbooks, and lots of IoTs don't have NFC, Microsoft had to use
Bluetooth and wi-fi. "Once-trumpeted features that quietly go away"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Beam).

they 'had' to because it's a standard, known as wifi direct, which
android oreo now supports.

nfc is a poor choice and one reason why android beam didn't work all
that well (or at all).

Rather than restrict
sharing by distance, wouldn't Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or other
cloud services allow sharing without the distance limitation? Plus the
other users don't need to also be using Windows 10.

the distance limitation is a *feature*, not a bug.

cloud services require an internet connection, which isn't always
available, and when it is, it's slower than directly between devices,
plus there may be privacy issues versus a transfer that's entirely
local.

On Wed, 9 May 2018 09:42:26 -0400, Big Al wrote:

On 05/09/2018 08:13 AM, Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Wed, 09 May 2018 21:21:22 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4Wbb6gbCc

Great video. I'm actually discovering some of the cool features
Microsoft added as a result of this.

It was good. Kinda wish MS itself would put something like this out
instead of a written list.

I agree. It's about time for them to have a public face who would
introduce all of us to the features.