Microsoft Clarifies Fall Creators Update Naming

Microsoft Clarifies Fall Creators Update Naming
“So this is the part of the world where it will be fall, er, autumn.”

Microsoft reached out to me today to clarify a recent story about Windows 10 Fall Creators Update naming.

As you may recall, an enthusiast blog reported that the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update would be called the Autumn Creators Update in the UK. But as it turns out, this is not correct.

“Just wanted to let you know that this was just a mistranslation on the website and has been fixed,” a Microsoft representative told me. “The next update will be called the Windows Fall Creators Update everywhere.”

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So not the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update then? Curious. 🙂

Update: Yes, it is the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. –Paul

 

 

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  • Oasis

    Premium Member
    19 July, 2017 - 4:35 pm

    <p>Because regardless, they are still clueless….</p>

  • adamcorbally

    19 July, 2017 - 4:42 pm

    <p>Enthusiast blog hahhahahahahahaha</p>

  • xapache

    19 July, 2017 - 4:42 pm

    <p>You realize that the regular folks of the world could care less what it is called. One day their computer will magically update and they will never realize the name was such a controversy. Go ahead, ask one of your friends who isn't like us (tech geeks) what the next update is called. The blank look will amaze you.</p><p><br></p><p>Eesh – I get it. Dumb name but man move on from this topic already.</p>

    • xapache

      19 July, 2017 - 4:43 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#150347"><em>In reply to xapache:</em></a></blockquote><p>BTW, I get that this is Paul's job to report on these things….Before the slams come in.</p>

    • warren

      19 July, 2017 - 6:02 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#150347"><em>In reply to xapache:</em></a></blockquote><p>Paul can write about whatever he want. If a topic doesn't interest you, keep scrolling.</p>

  • adamcorbally

    19 July, 2017 - 4:43 pm

    <p> Is everywhere part of the name then?</p>

  • david.thunderbird

    19 July, 2017 - 4:45 pm

    <p>There is no other Windows you will be assimilated, NOW!</p>

  • Win74ever

    19 July, 2017 - 4:52 pm

    <p>Windows 10 is a joke. There's nothing useful in this update other than GPU % utilization in Task Manager. They have to make up this naming controversy so people will forget the Timeline and other major features aren't coming.</p>

    • irfaanwahid

      20 July, 2017 - 2:35 am

      <blockquote><a href="#150380"><em>In reply to warren:</em></a></blockquote><p>My problem is, I don't know anyone in my workflow or friends, who would use MyPeople. I believe it's Skype only for now, which neither at my office or outside nobody uses. So personally for me this feature maybe DOA.</p>

      • rameshthanikodi

        20 July, 2017 - 7:09 am

        <blockquote><a href="#150528"><em>In reply to irfaanwahid:</em></a></blockquote><p>yeah, same, i'm not sure how much use the average user will get out of MyPeople. I don't think i'll ever use it. But i'm looking forward to the visual updates and onedrive on-demand.</p>

        • irfaanwahid

          20 July, 2017 - 7:52 am

          <blockquote><a href="#150540"><em>In reply to FalseAgent:</em></a></blockquote><p>OneDrive is totally worth it and since I am a visual person, I appreciate the new fluent design. The cut down feature TimeLine I am not sure how exactly it would work. Because what if I have Office installed on once machine and not on the other, how will TimeLine react to that.</p><p>Otherwise, apart from OneDrive and Fluent which will also not be fully realized, if there is anything else I can get excited for in this Fall CU.</p>

      • warren

        20 July, 2017 - 9:17 am

        <blockquote><a href="#150528"><em>In reply to irfaanwahid:</em></a></blockquote><p>Skype? Dude it supports email and SMS. A little notification number is overlaid on the person's icon when they've sent you an email or text!</p><p>How is this not useful to, like, literally everybody with a spouse?</p>

        • SvenJ

          20 July, 2017 - 10:48 am

          <blockquote><a href="#150595"><em>In reply to warren:</em></a> Hmm, that's the only one I have pinned. I don't see SMS (messaging) in the options though. Would really be nice if the messaging app worked the way you'd expect…like let me message from it, or consistently showed texts.</blockquote><p><br></p>

        • irfaanwahid

          21 July, 2017 - 2:43 am

          <blockquote><a href="#150595"><em>In reply to warren:</em></a></blockquote><p>Email support is great then! My assumption was it was only Skype. Thanks for that. However, since I don't have an Android and left Windows Phone for a quite a while, in Kenya with iPhone I don't have this feature working, unfortunately. A lot of Microsoft services take really long to get to this side of the world, including Groove Music while I have been using Apple Music since day 1.</p><p><br></p>

  • Waethorn

    19 July, 2017 - 5:06 pm

    <p>No matter how you phrase it, it still contains "Windows 10 Fall".</p>

  • IanYates82

    Premium Member
    19 July, 2017 - 5:49 pm

    <p>So does their translator turn fries into chips too? The other way around would take chips to crisps I guess… Probably best to leave English to English flavours alone when translating. ☺️ </p><p>We know to add the missing "u", read tomato sauce for ketchup, etc </p><p><br></p><p>Was this whole debacle seriously the result of an auto translator?? </p>

  • hrlngrv

    Premium Member
    19 July, 2017 - 6:20 pm

    <p>Outside the US just drop <em>Creators'</em> and use the acronym: <strong>FU</strong>.</p>

  • Vuppe

    19 July, 2017 - 6:24 pm

    <p>I wonder what content creation tools it comes with! /s</p>

  • Darmok N Jalad

    19 July, 2017 - 6:56 pm

    <p>It's Autumn Creatours Update, mate. </p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      20 July, 2017 - 2:52 am

      <blockquote><a href="#150408"><em>In reply to Darmok N Jalad:</em></a></blockquote><p>Maybe they are just projecting that it will fail badly…</p>

  • MikeD

    Premium Member
    19 July, 2017 - 8:31 pm

    <p>Spring in New Zealand.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      20 July, 2017 - 2:50 am

      <blockquote><a href="#150430"><em>In reply to MikeD:</em></a></blockquote><p>And fall means to trip, fail, collapse…</p>

      • lwetzel

        Premium Member
        21 July, 2017 - 1:18 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#150530"><em>In reply to wright_is:</em></a></blockquote><p>Or leaves dropping from the trees.</p><p>We are so literal. </p>

  • robincapper

    20 July, 2017 - 12:24 am

    <p>What's wrong with October (or whatever month they plan to RTM it)? Maybe they don't have a firm release schedule?</p>

  • rameshthanikodi

    20 July, 2017 - 7:11 am

    <p>This update is really underwhelming, even more so than the creators update. Hopefully the next update contains more features.</p>

  • JerryH

    Premium Member
    20 July, 2017 - 7:36 am

    <p>So, as we know, Fall Creators Update only makes sense in the US. Based on the numbers we saw on the site yesterday (where only 50% of machines running Windows 10 are on the first Creators Update), it sounds like most people even in the US won't get the Fall Creators Update in Fall. So the name makes no sense anywhere really then. It takes so long to roll out that maybe New Zealand users WILL get it in Fall – next Fall. Unless they ramp up deployment drastically, it seems most US folks will get the Fall update in Winter or Spring.</p>

  • Narg

    20 July, 2017 - 9:05 am

    <p>Potato…</p>

  • Andrey Medvedev

    20 July, 2017 - 9:38 am

    <p>Right. If we're going to make the name godawful, then by God, we're going to make it awful for everybody. </p><p>Downfall Creators Update it is.</p>

  • Langra

    Premium Member
    20 July, 2017 - 6:39 pm

    <p>The Windows 10 Fall update that arrives in the Spring for the half the of the world below the equator. A global company?</p>

  • peterh_oz

    21 July, 2017 - 11:48 am

    <p>What a stupid name. Fall is something you do when drunk. It is a description of something negative, either as a verb (they fall) or a noun (I had a fall). There is no positive in the name. And it is only 3 drops of liquid paper away from fall becoming fail!</p><p><br></p><p>#sad #dumb #whatidiotapprovedthis?</p>

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