Is Windows 10 Fall Update a new version?
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Well Scott made sure that we all understood that Windows 8.1 was a completely different version from Windows 8 because the kernel was different.
Does that mean that Windows 10 Fall update (1511) is a completely new version of Windows 10?
The kernel version on my not as of yet upgraded RTM Windows 10 machine is 10.0.10240.16590
The 1511 version is now 10.0.10586.3
I'm just trying to understand what makes a version change?
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I would suggest that it's just another windoze update. Nothing to see here... Except that it may eat some o fyour applications and RSAT tools..
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It's an upgrade not an update though. Windows 10 is planned for "rolling" upgrades from the get go.
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These rolling upgrades are going to be a nightmare for businesses.
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I was really hoping that @scottalanmiller would chime in here.
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You want him to chime in about a Windows discussion?
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@Dashrender said:
These rolling upgrades are going to be a nightmare for businesses.
Not really you can block them with WSUS just like any other.
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@art_of_shred said:
You want him to chime in about a Windows discussion?
Yeah, not sure what I could add here
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
You want him to chime in about a Windows discussion?
Yeah, not sure what I could add here
I wanted to know if you consider this a new version like 8.1 was to 8?
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@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
These rolling upgrades are going to be a nightmare for businesses.
Not really you can block them with WSUS just like any other.
Sure you can block them, but then you aren't getting updates any longer unless you're on the LTSB, which most SMBs won't be.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
You want him to chime in about a Windows discussion?
Yeah, not sure what I could add here
I wanted to know if you consider this a new version like 8.1 was to 8?
Windows NT 6.2 to Windows NT 6.3 was a major kernel update with a fundamental change to the core. I'm not aware of any Windows NT 6.5 kernel having been released. If it was, I completely missed it.
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Looks like they changed the kernel numbering to v 10.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
So this is a minor change, not a 10.0 to 10.1, just 10.0.x to 10.0.y... ok
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A patch level would be expected. CentOS 7 will increment patch number, but not change the minor number.
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@Dashrender said:
Looks like they changed the kernel numbering to v 10.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
So this is a minor change, not a 10.0 to 10.1, just 10.0.x to 10.0.y... ok
Yeah, just a rename like Linux 3. They renamed to line up with other things and did not have an actual major version change in either case.
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OK.. but Win 10 did start out as kernel 6.4... so 6.4 = 10.0 now.. just to make things easier to follow.
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@Dashrender said:
OK.. but Win 10 did start out as kernel 6.4... so 6.4 = 10.0 now.. just to make things easier to follow.
Yes, 10 is the new name for 6.4. So the question is whether 10.1 would be 6.5, or would 11 be 6.5?
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11? Who knows? It might be Windows 2014 that comes out next... lol
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@art_of_shred said:
11? Who knows? It might be Windows 2014 that comes out next... lol
We are talking the kernel, not the OS brand name.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
11? Who knows? It might be Windows 2014 that comes out next... lol
We are talking the kernel, not the OS brand name.
So now 10 and 11 are kernel names? That's what I was joking about.
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Yes, 10 is the new kernel name. And the real question is given that 6.5 maps to 10.0, what would what should be 6.6 map to and depending on that answer, what would NT 7 map to then?
