New Windows 10 Insider Preview Skip Ahead Build 18841 (20H1) -Feb. 22 Insider

Wynona said:

Thanks, Shawn. I read it, but I'm still no smarter than I was a few minutes ago.

Basically... MS is aligning a schedule with Azure development...

Thanks @Brink

That was very useful and interesting information. Seems I had the right hunch from the start, but I could not connect it directly to Azure.

You and your intuition....

(And that was in pure jest and fun, absolutely no demeaning or insulting intended)

Update: New Windows 10 Insider Preview Skip Ahead Build 18845 (20H1) -Feb. 28 Insider - Windows 10 Forums

johngalt said:

You and your intuition....

(And that was in pure jest and fun, absolutely no demeaning or insulting intended)

I'm the all seeing eye, can't you tell?

AndreTen said:

Basically... MS is aligning a schedule with Azure development...

I knew that, Andre, but the thing was so convoluted . . .

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

sounds like pure "Unobtanium" to me -- there's so much wrong currently in the 19H1 and 20 H1 builds that i don't even think they have a smidgen of a chance of delivering what they seem to want to do.

So far, I haven't found anything wrong with Skippy or Fast Ring. Everything just works.

jimbo45 said:

The only way this stuff has even the remotest chance of working is to get back to basics -- split Windows realistically into those who want to use it at work for what to some might seem boring stuff while enhance say Windows Home for all the nice home gaming features that a load of people want.

Although my computers are at home, I'm not your typical home user; in fact, I will pay extra to get the better one. And I think I can safely say the latest Builds are working fine for me.

jimbo45 said:

I really don't need my Windows builds to have every possible color feature under the planet and be optimised for playing fortnite or whatever -- give me a basic windows that displays in your chosen language decently, connects to the Internet properly, handles networking without breaking almost every other release, runs msoffice without a snag, does photoshop (or similar) properly, allows me to run a few VM's without falling over, runs email clients with sensible configuration screens instead of assuming everybody is on gmail, and connects decently to software I use at work such as things like SAPGUI for Windows etc.

Cheers
jimbo

But that's the beauty of Windows 10, Jimbo. There's something there for everyone without Microsoft having to go to the expense of building six or eight versions of Windows 10. For someone advocating against features of Windows 10, you sure have a lot of requirements . . . that I don't have. However, having said that, I probably have some requirements you don't have.

@Wynona

Only requirement I have, is that it works with my software and hardware and works well. The rest, I don't care much about. I do however like the Windows UI, but it's too inconsistent still. Needs some more work.

I do understand where @jimbo45 comes from, and see how frustrating it can be when things don't quite work as they're meant to.

With all that said, this is an insider build so our expectations should not be that high. There is a lot of incomplete and broken stuff.

slicendice said:

@Wynona

Only requirement I have, is that it works with my software and hardware and works well. The rest, I don't care much about. I do however like the Windows UI, but it's too inconsistent still. Needs some more work.

I do understand where @jimbo45 comes from, and see how frustrating it can be when things don't quite work as they're meant to.

With all that said, this is an insider build so our expectations should not be that high. There is a lot of incomplete and broken stuff.

I can agree with the software and hardware requirements, but not even Microsoft can build an OS that is a be all, end all as far as old software and hardware are concerned.

Further, this Build is so far out in front, I'm surprised it works as well as it does. I can't get a delayed snip on my Production machine, so I have to come over to Skippy in order to write my tutorials for my Sr. Citizen class. And I'm not supposed to use my Insider partition for production work. Sheesh!