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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19608
"[UPDATE 4/17] We’ve released Cumulative Update Build 19608.1006 (KB4557426) that contains a single fix to improve overall reliability of the OS." Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Wi...
Your Phone changes? heh their deal with samsung ruined everything. not everyone has samsung flagships. there are Sony, LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, Huawei, Nokia, Asus, OnePlus, Mi. ZTE etc etc hundreds more and they only release them for samsung. this is really bad.. no file sharing or screen sharing for us. I don't like samsung and have no interest to buy their products, so that means I can't fully use Your Phone.
but it's intentional, they can just say the requirement for those features is to have Android 9 above but they lock it to samsung devices.
about IIS, well it's an insider build, can't really use it to run a stable web server
but it's intentional, they can just say the requirement for those features is to have Android 9 above but they lock it to samsung devices.
about IIS, well it's an insider build, can't really use it to run a stable web server
Agreed on the IIS thing. I do know devs who use it on their own boxes for testing... but like you said, it's an insider build, so expect anything to break.
Regarding your phone - I re-read the stipulations and I agree it is annoying that it's tied to Samsung. I have a Samsung phone right now, but I share your dislike of them. All of their updates have made their phones increasingly worse and more power-user unfriendly unless you uninstall all of their garbage using the Android SDK. And then after that, what do you really have left compared to a Pixel or some other less expensive device? Not much if you ask me.
Well, I guess I won't get too accustomed to the new stuff in "Your Phone". 😕
- Well tbh, it's neither like nor dislike, I just have no interest to buy their products when I already have a great phone from other brands with Android 10. Microsoft is making Your Phone app like an Apple product, for no reason forcing users to use only a specific device. it's surprising and saddening because Microsoft was always the one advocating openness, cross platform, compatibility and so on but now this...
- Well, dislike or non interest, either way, I completely understand why you are not happy with it. There's really nothing "special" per-se about Samsung's phones other than high prices and bad software, if you ask me. It's otherwise just the same Android experience that you could get out of all the other brands.
I think the thing that bothers me the most about this little surprise and all their other recent choices regarding Android/IOs/Lack of Windows Mobile, is that it strikes me as yet another tactical mistake on MS' part in the Satya era.- I'm glad someone else thinks like that too! to me it looks like what he primarily cares about is online services provided by Microsoft such as Azure (all of its sub categories included), Microsoft 365 etc. but when it comes to Windows 10, software, specially locally installed software, apps etc, not so much care.
it was in his era that the Windows department experienced a tragic and strategic mistake which was scrapping all the test machines that Microsoft used to test Windows internally to ensure the final product is stable, (done on a lot of machines with lots of hardware variety), but instead we get insider program that, although it's great and everything and I love it because I can test new feature, every now and then causes problem with a specific type of hardware, old/new. because right now instead of real hardware, based on an ex-Microsoft employee, they are using virtual machines..
I wished Microsoft was run by a council rather than 1 single person at top of everything