Windows as a Service?
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The recent issues with the quality of Windows releases has reopened discussions of what it means to deliver “Windows as a Service”. When Windows 10 was released, #microsoft made a big deal that this was “the last version of Windows”. From now on, Windows would be delivered as a series of continuous ongoing incremental feature releases rather than as a big bang release every 3 years or so.Peter Bright’s article on Arstechnica that I linked to above tries to debug what is going on with Windows. The point he makes in the article is that the problem is not in the pace of Windows updates but rather the process they are using to develop those updates. There was a lot of speculation and naiveté (about software development in general) in his discussion but I think he probably got the basic diagnosis (...)
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