Microsoft yanks Windows 10 November upgrade from download site

Microsoft last week stopped offering Windows Update November 10 as a disk image, closing the way many had used to blow up the expectation that the company slowly cooling roller through Windows Update.

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.iso Files are still available, but when downloaded using multimedia authoring tools for Microsoft, now install the original edition of Windows 10 on July 29, not the upgrade in November as before.

"These downloads can not be used to upgrade from Windows 10 PC update in November (1511 Version)," Microsoft confirmed in the revised download page dedicated to Windows 10 when viewed from a Windows PC.

Windows 10 users impatient with the slow process used to update Microsoft devices through Windows Update were on the disk images and media creation tool to avoid waiting on stage. Microsoft had in fact pointed out to users as a way to jump the queue.

Gabriel Aul, director general engineering for the Microsoft operating system group, suggested the creation tools media and disk images in a tweet on November 12, the day the company released the update.

Microsoft has dubbed the update - the first for Windows 10-1511 to mark the month and year in AAMM size applies whenever the software is updated regularly as a delivery model style.

Change reports appeared yesterday in the newsgroup support Microsoft. "I can not find the Windows Update download November 10 ISO on the website of Microsoft," said Berk Babadogan on a wire. "Only ISO RTM (Build 10240) available. A week ago, I [could] Updated November ISO download from here. But suddenly disappeared this week, so you can not download now."

Others, including Greg Carmack, an MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional), confirmed that Microsoft had retired in 1511, when the use of the tool for creating media. "I asked through MVP Channel Communications and just found out that the fall update v.1511 apparently was taken and replaced with the original release," Carmack said, referring to the July 29 edition.

Computerworld confirmed Sunday that downloads the media creation tool aimed at the release of 29 July labeled build 10240. A download tool November 13, a day after the release of the update in November, took place the 10,586 buildup reference, the label assigned in 1511.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to questions on Sunday, but other outlets, Microsoft said on Saturday that the company had "decided that future facilities must be through Windows Update." WinBeta was one of the first to report the disappearance of 1511 the process of authoring tool media. Microsoft has not offered additional reasons to shoot in 1511 and return to the original July.

The company also said it was still serving WinBeta 1511 Windows 10 users through Windows Update, unlike some clients who said they had been offered. "Microsoft has not taken the Windows Update November 10 The company is releasing the update in November over time. - If you do not see Windows Update, you will soon see," a Microsoft spokesman said WinBeta.

Snatch update in November, Microsoft has limited the way users - if those running Windows 10 or Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 previous editions eligible for a free upgrade - Get the latest version of Windows 10.

Those upgrading from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 now have to go through two updates: First Build 10240-29 of July and then again to 1511 or 10586. Each building is at least 3GB download.

Customers who are already running Windows 10 Build 10240 must hang tight and wait for Microsoft to deliver improvements in November in Windows Update, and then download that for each device. This means that Windows 10 users will no longer be able to create bootable, installable media communication - typically a USB flash drive but alternatively, a DVD - 1511 update multiple machines without having to download massive file for each system wide Defending consumption and will take time.

Previously, Microsoft had made it clear that he would use Windows Update to upgrade to Windows 10 upgrades from two to three times a year as well as the monthly security updates. But he also promised to provide disc images in .iso format file for each update that gives advanced users another way to keep their devices updated.