Windows 10 Updating to Windows 10

[Larry Mashburn]

Anyone experiencing this yet? Happened on my personal laptop yesterday. I have 4 workstations that are trying to push the update today.

No KB number, just a description as follows:
Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, 10586

It looks like it is reinstalling Windows 10, Drivers, and everything. Waiting to see and verify all user files are ok. This is crazy.

edit: wife took a screenshot for me. Since I left it at home this morning.

 

[Metanis]

Windows 10 version 1511 is a major in-place upgrade. It acts very similar to the upgrade that transpired when you bumped 8 to 8.1.

 

[nlinecomputers]

It is a build. Windows 10 is doing something innovative. Instead of keeping the same ISO for years and forcing you to install a bazillon updates, Microsoft will issue major updates as new builds. With new ISO that have the previous updates slipstreamed into them. They plan on doing them about twice a year. The November update aka Version 1511 aka build #10586 is such an update. It's kinda like when Ubuntu has an update in April and another in October. It is not crazy, it is a good thing.

 

[Larry Mashburn]

Windows 10 version 1511 is a major in-place upgrade. It acts very similar to the upgrade that transpired when you bumped 8 to 8.1.

Makes sense. Took me by surprise. I started the update last night, and went to bed. Came to work this morning and needed something off of it. Tried to remote. Didn't connect. I text her to turn it on. She said, "windows is installing and it shows a progress indicator." I got a bit concerned. Didn't they take a year or so for 8.1? I wonder what the changes are? I will google it and learn more.

 

[Larry Mashburn]

It is a build. Windows 10 is doing something innovative. Instead of keeping the same ISO for years and forcing you to install a bazillon updates, Microsoft will issue major updates as new builds. With new ISO that have the previous updates slipstreamed into them. They plan on doing them about twice a year. The November update aka Version 1511 aka build #10586 is such an update. It's kinda like when Ubuntu has an update in April and another in October. It is not crazy, it is a good thing.

That wasn't a criticizing "crazy". More of a, "this is unfamiliar, and uncharted territory for MS." kind of crazy. I am really impressed with the direction MS is going on everything. There site is like a one stop shop for the best OS, laptop deals, and software. I run Windows since that is what is used. Their Laptops are kind of like Pure Editions, and Office, well it's office. No matter how many times I try other options, I come crawling back.

 

[Porthos]

Microsoft will issue major updates as new builds. With new ISO that have the previous updates slipstreamed into them.

We will be seeing this a couple times a year from now on. The next is Restone possibly in July.

 

[Rafal Sikora]

Does anyone know if when downloading Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft includes this build?

 

[Porthos]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench

 

[Diggs]

Is Version 1511 Microsoft's Threshold 2? (aka Service Pack 1)

 

[nlinecomputers]

Is Version 1511 Microsoft's Threshold 2? (aka Service Pack 1)

Yes, it is what was code named Threshold 2 but it isn't a service pack. Microsoft doesn't do service packs anymore, that concept is old thinking. We do builds now.

 

[Diggs]

Yes, it is what was code named Threshold 2 but it isn't a service pack. Microsoft doesn't do service packs anymore, that concept is old thinking. We do builds now.

I understand there are no more service packs and the reference was to days of old but it was a common reference in the journals last month. It was a hefty update/upgrade coming so soon after the Win10 release it perpetuated the talk that Win10 wasn't fully baked before it was released. Any other version previous of Windows would have called it a service pack.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Well, they are going to be rolling out them every 6 months now. It is why they call it windows as a service and the last version of Windows. Ir really isn't the same concept or idea as a service pack.

 

[glennd]

I guess they're changing from minor stuff-ups every month to major catastrophes every six months...