• The inside story on Win10 rollouts – the machine learning engine that throttles

    Posted on September 26, 2019 at 16:06 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    If you don’t mind graphs without axis labels, you might find this post from Microsoft interesting.

    Regular Microsoft updates to your Windows 10 PC help ensure that it’s kept secure from possible threats and empowered with the latest features for peak performance and productivity. Because of the wonderful diversity of hardware, devices and applications available to Windows customers, each PC’s update experience may be slightly different. To ensure that all PCs have a seamless update experience—regardless of their differences—we use a combination of testing, close partner engagement, feedback, diagnostic data, and real-life insights to manage quality.

    To help with the complexity of the aspects we need to evaluate, we are increasing our investments in machine learning (ML) technologies. Machine learning helps us detect potential issues more quickly and helps us decide the best time to update each PC once a new version of Windows is available.

    Compare and contrast to, say, the Win7 rollout experience. MS tests and tests and tests, then throws the gate open for anybody to manually install. If something goes kablooey (as it frequently did), the ‘Softies would scramble like crazy to fix things up. If you were smart, you waited for Service Pack 1.

    Back then, MS didn’t presume to have enough “intelligence” to push new operating systems onto customers.

    Times change, eh?

    Or do I sound like an old man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn?

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