Microsoft Ships a Redstone 4 Build with New Features

Now that Microsoft has signed off on Redstone 3 and will begin shipping it next week to everyone around the globe, it’s time to shift focus to the next update to Windows 10. Today, Microsoft has released Redstone 4 build 17017 and it has several new features.

In this release, the company is adding Cortana Collections. This idea behind this feature is that it can gather items that are related to your interests, content that you may have forgotten, and other contextually-aware information and place it into a collection for easy viewing. As always with Microsoft, this beta feature is only available for those Insiders who live in the US.

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In this release, the company is moving Cortana’s proactive content into the Action Center. The idea is that now when you look at Action Center you can see everything that needs your attention in one spot rather than in two places.

Finally, Microsoft is bringing Startup Apps into the Settings panel and as the name suggests, this is where you can manage what apps open on startup. Additionally, this new page will tell you if these apps will impact the startup time of your machine as well.

There are also a handful of bug fixes in this release and you can view the announcement post, here. Seeing as we are in the early days of using Redstone 4 builds, I’d expect to see a lot of new features showing up over the next couple of months.

 

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  • cyloncat

    13 October, 2017 - 2:42 pm

    <p>"An update is being prepared for your device, but it's not quite ready yet. We'll keep trying or you can try again now."</p><p><br></p><p>The good news is that MS is aware; you can go to the feedback hub, search for 17017, and run a data capture (from the incident report) while trying it again, so they can try to see why it's happening. That's nice improvement in the feedback hub that I hadn't seen before.</p>

  • chrisrut

    Premium Member
    13 October, 2017 - 2:57 pm

    <p>Hmmm. Cortana Collections could be the tip of a personal fave wish-list item: a tool with the ability to scan every drive and folder I can access (like a tame virus…), deduplicating all of that to the cloud (and/or a local repository), then dynamically indexing it by time, place, form, and event, like your mind does…</p><p>Oh well. As my grand daughter recently quipped: The definition of "AI" is "As if…"</p><p>. </p>

    • hrlngrv

      Premium Member
      14 October, 2017 - 1:45 am

      <p><a href="#207026"><em>In reply to chrisrut:</em></a></p><p>I prefer <strong><em>A</em></strong>lien <strong><em>I</em></strong>nterference.</p>

    • navarac

      14 October, 2017 - 3:32 am

      <blockquote><a href="#207026"><em>In reply to chrisrut:</em></a></blockquote><p>As we won't be able to test it out of the US as usual………………..another reason to not use Cortana</p>

  • ommoran

    Premium Member
    13 October, 2017 - 3:53 pm

    <p>Brad, Brad, BRAD! A couple *OF* New Features.</p><p><br></p><p>I know. Language has too many rules to follow. You write for a living, please don't slip down that slope. It takes you *thru* things that shouldn't exist, *str8* to txt-spk land.</p><p><br></p><p>/rant</p>

    • straker135

      Premium Member
      13 October, 2017 - 6:44 pm

      <blockquote>This. Although to be fair to Brad the urge to go with the flow of dumbing down English is overwhelming. "Anyways" is not a word and I want to scream every time I hear it. "off of" is needlessly tautologous and clumsy. I could go on, and on, but have to learn to let it go. (Starts hearing 'Let it go" playing in his head… noooo!)</blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote>/rant</blockquote><p><br></p>

      • hrlngrv

        Premium Member
        14 October, 2017 - 1:43 am

        <p><a href="#207104"><em>In reply to straker135:</em></a></p><p>Picky, but <strong><em>off of</em></strong> is an <strong>adverb</strong> followed by a <strong>preposition</strong>. Clumsy, but allowed.</p>

    • ncn

      14 October, 2017 - 7:28 am

      <p>You are wrong. Would you say "Two of New Features"?</p>

      • jimchamplin

        Premium Member
        14 October, 2017 - 9:16 am

        <blockquote><a href="#207237"><em>In reply to ncn:</em></a></blockquote><p>No, but the rules are different. </p><p><br></p><p>“Two new features,”</p><p><br></p><p>Yes.</p><p><br></p><p>”Couple of new features,”</p><p><br></p><p>Yes but also,</p><p><br></p><p>”Two of them,”</p><p><br></p><p>”Couple of them.”</p><p><br></p><p>However,</p><p><br></p><p>”Couple new features,”</p><p><br></p><p>No.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

        • straker135

          Premium Member
          14 October, 2017 - 6:41 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#207239"><em>In reply to jimchamplin:</em></a> And 'couple' also means to join together, as well as number. The 'of' is required to make clear which meaning of couple is intended. As such 'couple new things' is not the same as 'couple of new things'. </blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote>Kudos to Brad for editing his title to placate the pedants ;-)</blockquote><p><br></p>

  • JustDavid

    13 October, 2017 - 4:02 pm

    <p>My 32 bit tablets seems to be installing the update. But my 64 bit laptop and my 64 bit Test VM are both getting the</p><p>"An update is being prepared for your device, but it's not quite ready yet. We'll keep trying or you can try again now."</p>

  • Rob_Wade

    13 October, 2017 - 4:43 pm

    <p>Well, crud. An absolutely useless development for those of us who hate the Action Center and don't use it all.</p>

    • Win74ever

      13 October, 2017 - 5:28 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#207051"><em>In reply to Rob_Wade:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I don't even have the Action Center icon on. Totally useless.</p>

  • straker135

    Premium Member
    13 October, 2017 - 5:06 pm

    <p>Looks like another foobar from the good folks at Microsoft Update. Lots of comments on various fora from Insiders who are having errors particularly <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">"An update is being prepared for your device, but it's not quite ready yet. We'll keep trying or you can try again now." 'Retry' fails very reliably on my desktop, HTPC and Surface Laptop, as others are finding. Troubleshooter identifies problems with Update component(s) which it is unable to fix, or 'fixes' without actually achieving anything. I have messaged the Insider Team. They need to pull this one and try again when it is actually ready.</span></p>

    • straker135

      Premium Member
      13 October, 2017 - 11:03 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#207066"><em>In reply to straker135:</em></a> And Brandon Le Blanc has just <a href="https://twitter.com/brandonleblanc/status/918976964165230592&quot; target="_blank">tweeted this</a> not long ago and indeed my machines have started downloading and installing as they should have. Quick work by the team at Microsoft but shouldn't have been necessary. We aren't very patient with Microsoft at the moment are we?</blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • Win74ever

    13 October, 2017 - 5:27 pm

    <p>Useless features.</p>

  • derylmccarty

    Premium Member
    13 October, 2017 - 7:40 pm

    <p>I got the same response a couple of hours ago, then took a nap and am back tried again and 17017.1000 is installing just fine. The bottom line is patience and use any annoyance like this as an excuse for a nap and you will be much happier. Of course I am fully retired and can make that choice, those of you still in the work in order for your children eat have fewer options. </p>

  • Jhambi

    13 October, 2017 - 10:36 pm

    <p>LOL – Microsoft Bob v2.0</p>

  • MutualCore

    13 October, 2017 - 10:39 pm

    <p>Seriously if you have to manually add stuff to Cortana collection, then MS failed. Cortana should be proactively adding things using machine learning, isn't that the point of the AI revolution?</p>

  • hrlngrv

    Premium Member
    14 October, 2017 - 1:29 am

    <p>If my system is a guide, there'll be another build early next week if not over the weekend.</p><p><img src="https://s1.postimg.org/1vexvj5m27/deleteme.jpg"></p&gt;

  • Win74ever

    14 October, 2017 - 10:22 am

    <p>Microsoft is doing everything wrong. They should be providing the best Windows experience ever with Windows 10 but they're just annoying users. Windows will be dead very soon.</p>

    • dontbe evil

      16 October, 2017 - 5:41 am

      <blockquote><a href="#207254"><em>In reply to Win74ever:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>easy just don't use it… cortana is disabled by default</p>

      • JaviAl

        Premium Member
        18 October, 2017 - 4:34 am

        <blockquote><a href="#207631"><em>In reply to dontbe_evil:</em></a></blockquote><p>Cortana is ENABLE by default and has no option to DISABLE. Only has an option to HIDDEN Cortana, but Cortana is impossible to disable or uninstalling. Is constantly running and cosuming resources.</p>

        • dontbe evil

          18 October, 2017 - 5:45 am

          <blockquote><a href="#208290"><em>In reply to JaviAl:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>it's not</p>

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