Hi Rod: I was doing some general reading about how Microsoft pushes out upgrades and updates. It appears, the article was confusing, that MS may hold off pushing out upgrades and updates, other than critical ones, for about 4 months after the initial rollout to folks like home users to ensure there are no glitches and that any necessary fixes are in place before the pro users get the update or upgrade. There are also other schedules they use for Enterprise and some specialized users. There is a check box on your computer you can check that would, I think, defer installing of updates and upgrades for 8 months, not sure how it would impact home users. I have the default automagic install of updates and upgrades and have not changed this setting as I was not sure if it was a good idea at the time. I forgot to save the url to the article or would put it here for all to read but can try to find it again if anyone is interested and cant find it. I wonder if this is what is going on. I wonder if MS is just waiting 4 months to push the windows 10 anniversery edition to the Windows Pro users. They did say that pro users could download updates and upgrades manually but I don't recall any setting to allow automatic download and install for pro users as they are rolled out. This may be why we have not received the new upgrade on our windows pro machines - fingers crossed they get it right. As for the Office 365 updates I will look into that via the link you provided and perhaps upgrade there but because of the problems I see others having with the 2016 Outlook version I will need to do some homework prior to getting off into that mire, sigh. That's all I have this early morning to report as I am really, really busy trying to repair my investing platform after some changes Yahoo has made to their website and I have to switch to pulling down data from the NASDAQ now. Later and thanks for the help. Rick USA
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 10:03 PM To: 'Rick Thomas' <[email protected]>; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Windows Software, WE and Updates And Upgrades Hi Rick, If you type update in the search edit box in the Start menu, Check for Updates will appear. If you press Enter on this, you'll be taken to the Windows Update dialog. If you tab to the Check for updates button and Press it, you'll activate the manual download of available updates. Once downloads are available, tabbing to the Install button will actually install them, and you'll be asked to restart your system when installed. Now, if you don't manually install updates, this will normally be done automatically if you leave your system on overnight. I manually installed updates on my Windows 10 Pro virtual machine twice over the last week, the last time being today. Now, even though the Windows Update dialog continues to report that my Windows is up to date, the current build of my Windows version is still 1511. I'm starting to be convinced that the anniversary update is either only for Windows 10 Home, or it will be rolled out to Pro later. Perhaps Home users are the guinea pigs while the advanced Pro users remain happy go lucky with their stable 1511 build. Grin All the best, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 7:24 AM To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <[email protected]> Subject: Windows Software, WE and Updates And Upgrades Hi: I don't think I have ever gotten any updates or upgrades for office 365 and now have not gotten the upgrade for windows 10 anniversery edition. I have received the automatic updates like for windows defender loaded automatically. I am wondering if I have not registered my software correctly or something and don't know what I don't know so cant even check things out. Also, WE does not work correctly when searching for features in the start box. I hit enter to open it, type something then have to hit the down arrow key, tab out and back in to read every entry, not very good and not sure if this is normal WindowEyes behavior. There are other things I am noticing but these 2 are a good starting point to start trying to figure things out, learn what I need to and or request fixes as I move through trying to figure out what is going on. I run a Dell Desktop Optiplex, windows 10 pro and the latest WE. My Outlook in the start list and on the desktop reads as Outlook2013 but in the properties window the executable is Outlook15 so I don't have a clue as to what version of Outlook is on my machine and cant find it anyplace in the Outlook ribbon thingy. Perhaps I did not register it or something else is going on, don't have a clue yet but hope someone might be better with navigating around Office 365. Rick USA _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40h otmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
