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Minor Windows 10 beta patch KB 3158988 turns build number to 14342.1001
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AskWoody_MVPMay 23, 2016 at 4:36 am #42235Woody, first than you for keeping us up to date with Windows 10 and its continuous evolution.
It doesn’t look like there are many users here involved with the Insider Preview for Windows 10. I have one computer which is on the Insider Track, but to be honest, I don’t pay too much attention, although I use that laptop with 4 GB RAM (too little sometimes, need at least 6 GB to feel comfortable) daily for some tasks.
I noticed that the Start Menu has evolved which for me just looks different, is neither better nor worse.
I am not current with all the changes in Cortana, although one day I hope I will find the time to dig into using it a lot more. There is something specific about Australia which does not seem quite right. At some stage during Windows 8 development, Microsoft decided to promote the use of UK English for Australian Windows, which is the official flavour of English here (although a lot of people use mixed spelling and pronunciation sometimes, between UK and US English, I do it too on the site, although I do it on purpose to facilitate communication, like for the date format, July 29, instead of 29th July), but with Australian settings, which means US keyboard, as we use the Australian Dollar here (not the British Pound for which the symbol is on their keyboard) and the symbol for the currency is the same. Some would argue that there are slight differences in the design of the symbol when compared to the US Dollar, but for our purposes they can be considered the same.
This causes the system to have a dual language setup which for me caused problems with Windows 2012 R2 Server because of the keyboard switching at random between the 2 versions. Windows 10 instead seems to be a lot more stable for this purpose. Anyway, now we have a choice of Cortana with 3 Speech options – US, UK and Australian English and 6 synthesised voices: Catherine, Susan, Zira, James, Mark and George. A totally non-useful complication which is not encountered with Siri for example.
This is the main reason why I have not tried Cortana until now, due to too much overhead apparently. So I tend to ignore all the news about Cortana and its evolution, until one day when I will decide to give it a go at least. And it seems that a lot of the Preview new stuff is about Cortana. -
JC Denton
GuestMay 26, 2016 at 1:03 pm #42236As a US person, feel free to say 29th July if you like
Most sensible folk will not mind and those who educate themselves will realize the difference.The problem happens when you get a date like January 10th and it is written only in numbers.
01-10-2016 or 10-01-2016?
Is it January 10th or October 1st?And too many people do this, business and regular people alike. That’s what bugs me.
The official standard is ISO 8601:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.htmlYYYY-MM-DD
If more businesses and people would adopt that standard (especially on blogs like this) then it would help quite a bit towards simplifying things for everyone.
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