News Microsoft's next Windows 10 feature update gets a name: the Windows 10 November 2019 Update

[Chiefcrowe]

Microsoft’s next Windows 10 feature update gets a name: the Windows 10 November 2019 Update

It's no longer just Windows 10 19H2. Microsoft has named its next feature update the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, which is a month or two later than anticipated.

www.pcworld.com

Looks like it's going to be coming next month! Fingers crossed for smooth upgrades this time!!

 

[Kaido]

I finally bit the bullet & upgraded my home computers to Windows 10 recently. I feel it's stable enough & good enough to use as my primary OS now. Previously, I only had it on my gaming rig for maximum Steam & NVIDIA compatibility.

I'm probably most excited about Alexa integration:

Alexa, Cortana officially become BFFs as Amazon and Microsoft integrate the two assistants

You can now access Amazon Alexa from Windows 10's Cortana, and Microsoft Cortana from Alexa devices such as the Amazon Echo. We'll show you how to use Alexa within Cortana, too.

www.pcworld.com

That, and re-integrating Windows Search with File Explorer. Most of my business clients just use Ultra File Search, but this will be nice for integrated searches. But then again, that's really been goofed up since the Windows 7 days, haha.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Also, it looks like those on 1903 going to upgrade are going to have a much faster experience which is great news!

Microsoft: Meet Windows 10 'November 2019 Update' and this is the final build

Windows 10 version 1909 or the now officially named November 2019 Update is almost ready to roll out.

www.zdnet.com

 

[bruceb]

Last Sunday I took the plunge and upgraded from 1803 to 1903 ... It took 4 hours ... Today I reenabled windows updates and it did a bunch of them, then after it restarted, reran updates & it offered the Feature Update to 1909 ... That actually installed very fast (about 15 minutes) .. I did need to retweak some personalizations when upgrading to 1903 and Classic Shell is doing fine with 1903 and also with 1909 .. So now it is at 1909 18363 476 .. Hopefully Microsoft will stay with this simple feature upgrade method for all future changes.

 

[Muadib]

Last Sunday I took the plunge and upgraded from 1803 to 1903 ... It took 4 hours ... Today I reenabled windows updates and it did a bunch of them, then after it restarted, reran updates & it offered the Feature Update to 1909 ... That actually installed very fast (about 15 minutes) .. I did need to retweak some personalizations when upgrading to 1903 and Classic Shell is doing fine with 1903 and also with 1909 .. So now it is at 1909 18363 476 .. Hopefully Microsoft will stay with this simple feature upgrade method for all future changes.

Why on earth did upgrading to 1903 take 4 hours? I guessing you never did updates, but enlighten me.

 

[bruceb]

Correct, I had windows updates turned off to avoid the forced feature upgrades. And my laptop is about 6 years old with a Celeron CPU at 1.8Ghz .. but it is now on v1909

 

[VirtualLarry]

Why on earth did upgrading to 1903 take 4 hours? I guessing you never did updates, but enlighten me.

Try using a "slow" (to us enthusiasts), or "basic" to most "Normies", such as a dual-core Bay-Trail Atom netbook with 32GB eMMC, that requires you (*usually, 1903 to 1909 update was an exception) to plug in a USB 16GB or bigger flash drive to provide extra room to do the update. I've had Atom netbooks/cloudbooks sit for 12hrs or overnight to finish, while I went to sleep.

 

[Muadib]

Try using a "slow" (to us enthusiasts), or "basic" to most "Normies", such as a dual-core Bay-Trail Atom netbook with 32GB eMMC, that requires you (*usually, 1903 to 1909 update was an exception) to plug in a USB 16GB or bigger flash drive to provide extra room to do the update. I've had Atom netbooks/cloudbooks sit for 12hrs or overnight to finish, while I went to sleep.

Yikes!!! I totally forgot the old Atom processor. Thanks for the enlightenment.