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Microsoft now adds features to Windows 11 each month
'Continuous innovation' means it's time to refine your WSUS skills unless you want users doing all sorts of weird stuff
www.theregister.com
I just wonder what the point of the yearly 'feature update' is in light of this news. I was happier when MS decreased the rate of Win10 feature updates from biannually to annually, but Microsoft's attitude on this topic has gone from 'silly' to 'more sensible' and now back the other way to 'YOLO'. This is neither needed or desirable for a >30 year old product.
I have to laugh though when Microsoft routinely justifies these bone-headed strategies with "feedback from our users"; take a hint MS: don't take product development advice from teenagers or users of your insider service. You've got possibly a billion users, and a very small percentage want to switch on their computers and wonder what you changed/broke today without permission.
- edit - apparently the official distinction between 'monthly quality updates' and 'feature updates' is that the latter adds new features, whereas the former "improves features". I'm not sure that really explains anything, because AFAIK most people, devs included, would say "our product can do X now" is a feature addition regardless of whether it "improved existing functionality" or "added a whole new feature" because in order to say "our product can do X now" means you added something. If you add a dictionary feature to Notepad, are you improving the Notepad feature or are you adding a feature to Notepad?
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