Monday, April 30th 2018
Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 10 April 2018 Update (build 1803)
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 10 April 2018 Update. This isn't an ordinary "patch Tuesday" update, but a major update akin to "Fall Creators Update," which updates the build of the operating system to 1803. With it, Microsoft is introducing four major features to Windows 10 - Timeline, Focus Assist, Dictation, and a new and improved Edge web-browser. Timeline is essentially a time-linked file manager that organizes your files (and versions of them), e-mails, web-browser favorites, and search results, by time, so you can go back up to 30 days in time to find your stuff.
Focus Assist is a feature that lets you keep your focus on work (or productive tasks), and prevents you from being sucked into endless scrolling through social-media or other trivial activity, when you're supposed to be working. You set it to turn on in specific times of the day and days of the week, or even arbitrarily, and it keeps giving you visual or auditory reminders that pull you away from your trivial activity. The third major feature is Dictation, which is natural voice input as somewhat grammatically correct text. Microsoft made improvements to Edge that include the ability to mute tabs, maximize Reading Mode or PDFs into full-screen, secure payment options storage, and in-built Grammar Tools besides spell-checkers, so you no longer need to pay for services such as Grammarly.
The disc image is available from Microsoft directly at this address.
When using a Windows machine it will prompt you to install the Microsoft Disc Image Download Tool. If you rather have a direct download of the Windows 10 ISO you have to change your browser's user agent, so that the site thinks you are on an unsupported OS.
Chrome: Go to the page above, press F12, in the devtools window, top right, click the three dots, select "More tools", "Network conditions", User agent: Blackberry.
Firefox: Install a user agent switcher addon, then switch to the user agent to a non-Windows platform.
Edge: Go to the page above, press F12, in the devtools window, select "Emulation", "Device", "iPad".
Focus Assist is a feature that lets you keep your focus on work (or productive tasks), and prevents you from being sucked into endless scrolling through social-media or other trivial activity, when you're supposed to be working. You set it to turn on in specific times of the day and days of the week, or even arbitrarily, and it keeps giving you visual or auditory reminders that pull you away from your trivial activity. The third major feature is Dictation, which is natural voice input as somewhat grammatically correct text. Microsoft made improvements to Edge that include the ability to mute tabs, maximize Reading Mode or PDFs into full-screen, secure payment options storage, and in-built Grammar Tools besides spell-checkers, so you no longer need to pay for services such as Grammarly.
When using a Windows machine it will prompt you to install the Microsoft Disc Image Download Tool. If you rather have a direct download of the Windows 10 ISO you have to change your browser's user agent, so that the site thinks you are on an unsupported OS.
Chrome: Go to the page above, press F12, in the devtools window, top right, click the three dots, select "More tools", "Network conditions", User agent: Blackberry.
Firefox: Install a user agent switcher addon, then switch to the user agent to a non-Windows platform.
Edge: Go to the page above, press F12, in the devtools window, select "Emulation", "Device", "iPad".
84 Comments on Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 10 April 2018 Update (build 1803)
Edit:
How nice, the personalized advertising privacy setting is hidden behind the scrollbar. They sure could have designed the UI so that the option is partially visible on default scroll state
I do like the small changes to the interface - looks a lot cleaner and more compact. Though, MS is still trying to force their Edge browser on users...:banghead:
After an upgrade there are individual pages asking about each of these, with no scrollbars this time. So at least there is some progress on that front.
Compare that to anniversary update that not only launched with system crashing bugs for some systems but became a mandatory update before they were addressed.
Nice Download speed try mine.
Tried to reset and reinstall from the windows store which didn't fix anything....:banghead:
operating system ? NO its a service not a OS . even Microsoft calls it a service .
pretty sad Microsoft offered it for free and still had to use underhanded tactics and strong arm tactics to ''trick '' folks in to the upgrade [that should of been your first clue to stay away] and then like said above they seem to want to fill it up with all that crapware bloat then improve the ''OS'' part of things . if anything the ''OS'' part is more degraded . just ask cortana ..lol...
hay Microsoft just offer a solid real OS and if we want all that crapware make it a optional download . then now with there roll over updating [that's you now roll over and take them up the a$$] that you take them all or take nothing then after so many days you have to take them
see they learned with trying to release windows 10 real fast to get rid of you selecting the updates you want and decline the ones you don't and are now able to slip anything in good or for bad .
lets face it if it was not for microsofts strangle hold on the PC games you would have no real reason to even use it . Linux can do the rest just as good and 98.9% is free to use . I just keep a copy of 7 .vista and xp each on ther own on a HD just for gaming use don't even allow it to update or go on line unless necessary , and that's rare . heck I did not even let them activate . install all programs off the retail disks or pendrives . use Linux for the rest of the days workings .
windows is a bloated joke anymore think how back in the XP days how folks whined how proprietary and intrusive it was , man xp now seems open source compared to 10 as a service