We’re about three years into Windows 10, and we’ve seen a lot of changes to the OS, as well as the servicing model, in those three years. The move to no longer offering major OS updates every couple of years with a new name, and requirement for purchase, is very welcome, and has likely been the biggest success of the Windows 10 launch. Microsoft has also refined the servicing model to a more consistent pattern of two updates per year, and while that can either be a pro or a con depending on where you stand, they’ve met that over the last couple of updates. With the Windows 10 April Update, which is version 1803, we’ve got arguably the smallest update yet in terms of new features, but that’s not really a bad thing. Three years in, the OS is mature enough that it’s good to see the company dialing back on the major interface changes, and hopefully focusing more on consistency, and reliability.
AnandTech’s review of the Windows 10 April Update.
After 4,5 years of Mac, I am back to Windows (can’t use Linux because of my work, too bad!). I must say the experience is pleasant. Win10 seems to be good, I like it. Of course, I use try to use FLOSS whenever possible, but overall, I would say I prefer Win10 over macOS. Maybe also the fact that my laptop was 5 times cheaper!!! Hahahahaha
Does this update remove the awful ads?
I still don’t have this. Not sure if they’re pushing it out ridiculously slowly, or if they’ve stopped pushing it, or if something is broken on my end.
I do know I’ve recently had a regression with the Intel wifi drivers, matching broken behaviour that plagued my machines back in Windows 8/8.1 days… when you wake them up, they won’t reconnect to wifi until you open the control panel and hit “Connect” a few times. Very irritating.
This bug was fixed early in Win 10’s life. Sigh.