Microsoft has improved Windows Update dramatically since Windows 10 moved to this twice a year
update cadence.
What are your thoughts on Microsoft's
update cadence for Windows 10?
As we've reported in the past, Microsoft is planning to return to a twice - a-year
update cadence for Windows 10 in 2017, releasing two major updates similarly to the Threshold wave of updates released back in 2015.
Along with hardware similarities, both phones are on the same
update cadence, and run the same version of OxygenOS.
«Because of
the update cadence, and the additional steps you have to go through to be able to release an update on the PlayStation network, we're not going to be able to keep our servers in sync, so you won't be able to just play with the same people,» said Sony Online Entertainment Creative Director Matt Higby.
but as someone who has been playing the game since the very first version of the hangar module in 2013 and you all know is very critical of everything star citizen, i am very pleased with the state of the game right now and
the update cadence.
Guild Wars 2 starts the year out strong, but a few controversial business decisions hit in the middle of the year and
update cadence slows down significantly through the later months.
Not exact matches
I think 2015 was the year MMO studios realized that the slow trickle
update or patch
cadence just doesn't generate the hype that ongoing games need, and that's meant tons of content in existing games.
One of my biggest wishes was for Nintendo to
update the virtual console to include more games and to implement a regular
cadence of releases.
You mentioned that you had four major GTA Online contain
updates in last fiscal year, I was just wondering if you could talk about kind of how you are thinking about the contain pipeline shaping up for the next fiscal year, can you match that kind of
cadence?
This is the latest feature
update in Microsoft's new twice - a-year release
cadence, and you should view it with the skepticism any initial public release of a new Windows version deserves.
That's not as good as the monthly
cadence that high - end phones offer, but it's a step above what cheap Android phones have offered so far in terms of
updates, which is to say, nothing.
Today we flighted the first
update to Insiders on this accelerated
cadence, which includes the latest
updates to our new rendering engine.
We do have the ability to service features via Windows
Update without a full release of Windows (for example, we shipped our alert trap mitigation to Windows 10 users back in September), but in general at this time we expect to align major platform
updates to the Windows release
cadence, which allows us to leverage the Insider program for rapid release and stabilization of new features (often within days of checking in to internal builds).
Based on feedback from Windows Insiders, we are working to release preview builds more Today we flighted the first
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The Camera and Gallery apps, for example, are no longer
updated at the same
cadence in the public realm as what is released on the Play Store — code that developers can not tinker with — so CyanogenMOD engineers are forced to create their own.
Although it has said that CB
updates will appear about once every four months, which would mean it would debut at the end of November, or four months after the July 29 launch — that three - times - yearly
cadence is flexible.
If the company is able to keep up the
cadence of
updates, we may be more likely to look past the few areas of the software hat could use a bit more attention and polish.
The fast release
cadence of MIUI
updates allows the manufacturer to bundle security patches with maintenance fixes.
In the world of headphones, popular models can go years without being
updated, but in the world of Apple, fast and regular iteration is the more expected
cadence.
The next day, Microsoft revealed that its Redstone 3
update will be released in September, and said that the company is now aligning Windows 10's two -
updates - per - year release
cadence with Office 365 ProPlus.
If there's one positive that could be picked out here, it's that OnePlus has seriously improved its
update reliability and
cadence since the OnePlus 3 was launched.
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updates will be forthcoming for VS 2012 in a «regular
cadence,» said Soma Somasegar, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division.
By pushing out
updates at a regular and frequent
cadence, it won't take long for the platform to quickly make its name known with consumers.
Chrome OS received these changes in version 61 and have now arrived on CloudReady, which
updates at a different
cadence in order to support a vast amount of hardware.