Five surprises in the latest Windows 10 Insider build and what they mean

Sean Ewington

ZDNet[^]:

Most of the changes in the latest Windows 10 preview release, build 14942, look like minor tweaks. But they point the way to more significant changes to come next year. Here's what to look out for.

Surprise #1: All your software works just fine again.

Philippe Mori

Surprise #1 : Edge does not work properly anymore Surprise #2 : Link to Internet Explorer in start Menu Surprise #3 : iTunes does not seems to automatically open when connecting USB cable.

Philippe Mori

Joe Woodbury

Philippe Mori wrote:

Surprise #3 : iTunes does not seems to automatically open when connecting USB cable.

How is anything going wrong with iTunes a surprise?

Brisingr Aerowing

iTunes breaks more often than anything else in this universe.

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

realJSOP

I thought iTunes was end-of-lifed by apple.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Dan Neely

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So in this build, on PCs with more than 3.5 GB of RAM, services are no longer grouped under shared Svchost entries. Instead, each gets its own process.

I'd've killed for this at my last job. At least one of the dumpster fires corporate IT blighted my Weven laptop with regularly went berserk and had its service host process devouring a core for anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour. The large number of services running it it meant I wasn't able to do anything beyond generic rage at the admins since i couldn't ever point to a single offender and the process in question was full of stuff that would cause real problems if I started killing them left and right (assuming it wasn't running at a level of protection my local admin couldn't overrule anyway).

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Joe Woodbury

That was Safari and QuickTime.