Anyone tried the new "major" update to Windows 10 called build 1511 (for Nov 2015) or 10586 previously? What are you findings/opinions?
For me seems more "work in progress" quality, like running a beta build.
Cortana is now available, and with a couple of male/female Indian accent voices too. Although it sucks, cant seem to do much, it seems to always open a website for anything I say/ask. If I say "reboot this machine" it just opens a bing search for "how to reboot" listings. There is an option to enable "Hey Cortana" listening (any voice, or only recognise your own voice) but doesn't seem to respond to me. Have to manually click the mic icon to get it to start listening. Was hoping for more Star-Trek-like situation here
Theme seems to be a bit wonky now, the title bar colour does not seem to match the desktop background solid colour I selected, I picked a dull gray-ish background but the start bar, start menu transparency and the window title bar colours are the annoying bright blue - reminds me of the ugly default WinXP theme. On top of that the Settings app does not have titlebar colour - the same light gray - but the icons have now become the blue colour like title bar instead of standard gray. So the inconsistent look-and-feel debate will continue I guess.
The right-click context menu look and feel consistency actually seemed to go backwards for me, earlier it was looking pretty much uniform everywhere, now if I right click the desktop I get a white menu, for the taskbar I get an ugly dark menu.
This build is claims 30% faster in typical performance compared to Windows 7 especially bootup but I haven't and can't really check if any performance improvements are there between the original Win10 release and this "Threshold 2" major November update 1511.
I guess will be getting regular updates through Windows Update and will wait for detailed reviews/analysis on sites like Anandtech.
For me seems more "work in progress" quality, like running a beta build.
Cortana is now available, and with a couple of male/female Indian accent voices too. Although it sucks, cant seem to do much, it seems to always open a website for anything I say/ask. If I say "reboot this machine" it just opens a bing search for "how to reboot" listings. There is an option to enable "Hey Cortana" listening (any voice, or only recognise your own voice) but doesn't seem to respond to me. Have to manually click the mic icon to get it to start listening. Was hoping for more Star-Trek-like situation here
Theme seems to be a bit wonky now, the title bar colour does not seem to match the desktop background solid colour I selected, I picked a dull gray-ish background but the start bar, start menu transparency and the window title bar colours are the annoying bright blue - reminds me of the ugly default WinXP theme. On top of that the Settings app does not have titlebar colour - the same light gray - but the icons have now become the blue colour like title bar instead of standard gray. So the inconsistent look-and-feel debate will continue I guess.
The right-click context menu look and feel consistency actually seemed to go backwards for me, earlier it was looking pretty much uniform everywhere, now if I right click the desktop I get a white menu, for the taskbar I get an ugly dark menu.
This build is claims 30% faster in typical performance compared to Windows 7 especially bootup but I haven't and can't really check if any performance improvements are there between the original Win10 release and this "Threshold 2" major November update 1511.
I guess will be getting regular updates through Windows Update and will wait for detailed reviews/analysis on sites like Anandtech.
