十月cms_微軟十月更新失敗使整個PC行業陷入困境

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Microsoft still hasn’t re-released Windows 10’s October 2018 Update. Now, PC manufacturers are shipping PCs with unsupported software, and Battlefield V is coming out next week with real-time ray-tracing technology that won’t work on NVIDIA’s RTX hardware.

微軟仍然沒有重新發布Windows 10的2018年10月更新。現在，個人計算機制造商正在交付具有不受支持的軟件的個人計算機，而《戰地風云5》將在下周發布，其實時光線追蹤技術不適用于NVIDIA的RTX硬件。

某些新PC正在運行不受支持的軟件 (Some New PCs Are Running Unsupported Software)

The holiday shopping season is almost upon us. PC manufacturers have been working on new hardware and want to release it in time for Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season.

假日購物季快到了。 PC制造商一直在研究新硬件，并希望在黑色星期五和圣誕節購物季節及時發布。

As Brad Sams points out over at Petri, PC manufacturers were testing their new hardware on a pre-release version of the October 2018 Update, also known as Windows 10 version 1809.

正如Brad Sams在Petri指出的那樣，PC制造商正在2018年10月更新的預發布版本(也稱為Windows 10版本1809)上測試其新硬件。

According to Microsoft’s processor requirements, new devices with an Intel 9th generation or Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor are only officially supported on the October 2018 Update.

根據Microsoft的處理器要求，只有在2018年10月更新中才正式支持具有Intel第9代或Qualcomm Snapdragon 850處理器的新設備。

Update: After we wrote this article, Microsoft changed the web page to say that Windows 10 version 1803 does officially support Snapdragon 850 processors. Changing the website to say they’re officially supported is one way to fix the problem!

更新：撰寫本文后，Microsoft更改了網頁，以說Windows 10版本1803確實正式支持Snapdragon 850處理器。更改網站以說它們得到官方支持是解決問題的一種方法！

But the holiday shopping season is nearly here, and these PC manufacturers have to release this hardware. So Microsoft has let them release it with the older version of Windows that isn’t officially supported and hasn’t been properly tested.

但是假期購物季將至，這些PC制造商必須發布此硬件。因此，微軟讓他們使用未得到正式支持且未經適當測試的較舊版本的Windows來發布它。

Sams found a Lenovo ARM-based Windows 10 laptop with a Snapdragon 850 chip on it at Best Buy, and it was running that old version of Windows. That hardware may not work properly with its current operating system. That’s not all, though. As Sams puts it:

薩姆斯在百思買發現了一款基于Lenovo ARM的Windows 10筆記本電腦，上面裝有Snapdragon 850芯片，并且正在運行該舊版本的Windows。該硬件可能無法在其當前操作系統上正常工作。但這還不是全部。正如Sams所說：

Companies who created marketing material for their devices that highlighted features from 1809 can’t start using that material until this version of Windows 10 ships. Considering that we are about 7 weeks from Christmas, the clock is ticking louder and louder each day that passes.
為自己的設備創建了市場宣傳資料以強調1809年功能的公司直到該版本的Windows 10發行后才開始使用該資料。考慮到我們距圣誕節大約7周，時鐘一天一天越來越響。

You wouldn’t want to use a PC with an Intel 9th-generation (Coffee Lake) processor without Windows 10’s October 2018 Update, either. As Microsoft’s documentation makes it clear, those CPUs are not officially supported on the April 2018 Update and may not work properly.

您也不想在沒有Windows 10的2018年10月更新的情況下使用帶有Intel第9代(Coffee Lake)處理器的PC。正如Microsoft的文檔明確指出的那樣， 2018年4月更新未正式支持這些CPU，并且可能無法正常工作。

《戰地風云5》發行時不支持光線追蹤 (Battlefield V Won’t Support Ray-Tracing at Release)

Microsoft trumpeted?real-time ray tracing technology earlier this year. NVIDIA’s RTX 20-series graphics cards support this fancy new graphics feature and were released a few months ago. But they can’t actually use DirectX Ray Tracing yet.

微軟今年早些時候大肆宣傳實時光線追蹤技術。 NVIDIA的RTX 20系列圖形卡支持這一新穎的圖形功能，并于幾個月前發布。但是他們實際上還不能使用DirectX Ray Tracing。

That’s been okay because very few games are actually supporting this technology. Everyone could wait.

沒關系，因為實際上很少有游戲支持該技術。每個人都可以等待。

But EA will release Battlefield V?on November 15, which is next week. Ray-tracing will be part of the day one patch. If you purchased an NVIDIA RTX graphics card and were excited to try out ray tracing at Battlefield V’s release—well, too bad. You’ll have to install the unstable build of Windows 10’s October 2018 Update if you want to do that. That’s what EA’s documentation says.

但是，EA將于下周的11月15日發布《戰地風云5》。光線追蹤將是第一天補丁的一部分。如果您購買了NVIDIA RTX顯卡，并且興奮地嘗試在《戰地風云5》的發行版中進行光線追蹤，那就太糟糕了。如果要執行此操作，則必須安裝Windows 10 October 2018 Update的不穩定版本。這就是EA的文檔所說的。

Not only are new PCs shipping with an unsupported version of Windows, Microsoft is also holding back the PC gaming industry. Gamers who purchased an NVIDIA RTX card will be disappointed, and both NVIDIA and EA won’t be able to trumpet and advertise this new technology at the game’s launch.

不僅新的PC附帶了不受支持的Windows版本，而且Microsoft也在阻礙PC游戲行業。購買了NVIDIA RTX卡的游戲玩家將感到失望，并且NVIDIA和EA將無法在游戲發布時大肆宣傳這項新技術。

Thanks to Thinus Swart for pointing out this issue on Twitter.

感謝Thinus Swart在Twitter上指出了這個問題。

微軟的Windows開發過程被打破 (Microsoft’s Windows Development Process Is Broken)

Windows 10’s October 2018 Update was originally released on October 2, but it was pulled a few days later because it was deleting some people’s files. Even after that bug was released, Microsoft found another bug that could result in data loss while using .zip files.

Windows 10的2018年10月更新最初于10月2日發布，但由于幾天后刪除了某些人的文件而被撤消。即使在發布該錯誤之后，Microsoft也發現了另一個錯誤，當使用.zip文件時，該錯誤可能導致數據丟失。

It’s now a month later and Microsoft hasn’t said anything about when we should expect the update. Both the big show-stopping data loss bugs have been fixed, so perhaps Microsoft found another huge bug we don’t know about.

現在已經過了一個月，微軟沒有透露我們何時應該進行更新。這兩個令人大跌眼鏡的數據丟失錯誤均已修復，因此也許微軟發現了另一個我們不知道的巨大錯誤。

As Peter Bright eloquently explained at Ars Technica, Microsoft’s Windows 10 development process is clearly broken. Windows developers integrate buggy code early in the development cycle and then scramble to fix it:

正如Peter Bright在Ars Technica上雄辯地解釋的那樣，微軟的Windows 10開發過程顯然已中斷。 Windows開發人員在開發周期的早期就集成了錯誤代碼，然后爭先恐慌地對其進行修復：

Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I’ve been told that yes, it’s permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn’t the norm), or test failures are being regarded as acceptable, non-blocking issues, and developers are being allowed to integrate code that they know doesn’t work properly. From outside we can’t tell exactly which situation is in play—it could even be a mix of both—but neither is good.
該代碼根本不存在任何測試(而且我被告知是的，允許不進行測試就集成代碼，盡管我希望這不是正常的做法)，或者測試失敗被認為是可以接受的，不是阻止問題，并且允許開發人員集成他們知道無法正常工作的代碼。從外部，我們無法確切判斷出正在發生什么情況(甚至可能是兩者兼而有之)，但兩者都不是一件好事。

Is it any surprise that, sometimes, the bugs aren’t all found and fixed in time?

有時無法及時發現并修復所有錯誤，這是否令人感到驚訝？

As Mary Jo Foley puts it at ZDNet, Microsoft needs to focus on fundamentals rather than new features. In the past few days alone, we’ve reported on problems with file associations not working properly and Microsoft accidentally deactivating some PCs. Worse yet, both of those problems are on the current stable version of Windows 10!

正如Mary Jo Foley在ZDNet上所說的那樣，微軟需要專注于基礎知識而不是新功能。僅在過去的幾天中，我們就報告了文件關聯無法正常工作以及Microsoft意外停用某些PC的問題。更糟糕的是，這兩個問題都在Windows 10的當前穩定版本上！

This broken development process is hurting the entire PC industry. With the constant storm of Windows 10 bugs, people are much more likely to consider Chromebooks, MacBooks, and maybe even iPads. Who wants to deal with all these problems unless they have to?

這種中斷的開發過程正在損害整個PC行業。隨著Windows 10 bug的不斷涌現，人們更有可能考慮使用Chromebook ， MacBook和iPad 。除非有必要，誰愿意處理所有這些問題？

Image Credit: D-Krab/Shutterstock.com,?EA

圖片來源： d-KRAB /Shutterstock.com， EA