Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

16 CHAPTER 1 | Getting started with Windows 10 Figure 1-16: Using Microsoft OneDrive, you can move your working files and photos into the cloud, for backup and easy access from other devices. Learn to love change For this chapter, I promised a list of 10 facts that every new user needs to know about Windows 10. If you’ve been paying attention, you know this final item is actually number 11. That’s oddly appropriate, because it illustrates one of the survival skills your users need to adopt with Windows 10: Things will change, often when you least expect them. In the era of “Windows as a service,” you can expect a much faster pace of change in the way things work. Some of those changes will be small and welcome; others will be significant and require some adjustment. For the most part, the big wrenching changes will appear as feature updates, delivered once or twice a year. After the initial release of Windows 10 in July 2015, for example, Microsoft delivered a major update in November 2015. In the process, it introduced a new version numbering scheme. Version 1511 identifies the year and month of the feature update, just as the Anniversary Update is version 1607 (July 2016). In the not-so-distant past, a new version of Windows arrived every few years. In the new world, you can expect at least one and perhaps two such upgrades every year.