Nov 2015 update

[Dush Ku]

The new November 2015 update causing any problems?

 

[xandros9]

It's kinda early to say I'd think.

 

[worwig]

If you mean the update from Tuesday, Nov. 10th. Yes. It killed the email app for me. When I would open email, it would crash a few seconds later. I uninstalled the updates, and it worked fine. Later in the day I let it reinstall the updates, and it was fine. No idea what went wrong on the first install.

 

[Dush Ku]

They changed the brightness settings to brighter and brightest rather than a percentage. Dumb.

 

[wardo5757]

On my I7 SP3 my standby battery life was increased by orders of magnitude. I assume that the SP3 and SB have identical power management, so hopefully that update fixed the SB power issues too?
MS REALLY needs to get this right, this issue has been plaguing the Surface since 10 was beta, in fact, it's the sole reason for me leaving the 10 beta on my SP3 and installing it on a machine that I rarely use.

 

[spasell]

Well, they have 14 more days to get it right before my time to return expires. I will take my $2000 and get something more stable. Tired of this BS

 

[xandros9]

Well, they have 14 more days to get it right before my time to return expires. I will take my $2000 and get something more stable. Tired of this BS

if your Book is having serious issues, go get it replaced/repaired under warranty.
I notice people often try to live with problems they think is normal and that updates will fix defects.

 

[MP3Mike]

It broke Windows Hello for me on my Surface Book.

 

[Hardcore1973]

Using the Insider Edition with the latest build and Fast updates and don't have any issues with it. Recommend you give it a try if you are having any issues.

 

[Talldog]

If you mean the update from Tuesday, Nov. 10th. Yes. It killed the email app for me. When I would open email, it would crash a few seconds later. I uninstalled the updates, and it worked fine. Later in the day I let it reinstall the updates, and it was fine. No idea what went wrong on the first install.

The November update just came out today.

 

[Telstar1948]

I've downloaded it (on my Surface Book) and it's installing as I type this on my SP3.

 

[zerospace-net]

It broke Windows Hello for me on my Surface Book.

Windows Hello seems to be touchy on its own, prior to the update (I haven't installed the update yet). I'd say it works right about 98% of the time, but here and there it just acts strangely. I've had it just not work (camera comes on, says "looking for you" but can't find me despite good lighting and me front and center), sometimes the camera doesn't come on at all, etc -- all manner of strange bugs. Given that it's a very new feature, I guess I'm willing to accept that it has its little idiosyncrasies at this point. I really like Windows Hello, though -- enough to keep using it even with the little bugs.

 

[Dush Ku]

Windows Hello no longer opens the Windows profile. It sits at the lock screen and I have to swipe up. Before it just brought me right to the desktop. Disappointing.

On the plus side, the track pad seems to feel like it works better two finger scrolling.

 

[coasterfreak212]

That's so weird. My Windows Hello has been perfect from day 1 and continues to be after the update.

Granted, my battery life is still crappy, so it's not a super life saving update. It does seem more stable though than the previous build.

 

[gamer_stew]

So far so good, my video driver hasn't crashed since I've gotten the update. Nothing seems broken, but it's just 24 hours in, so guess a good week will tell. Only thing that has stopped working is my photos live tile.

 

[pdch]

Update still not showing up on my surfacebook

 

[olyar15]

Still waiting for the update to appear on mine as well.

 

[mcheiron]

While Hello is a bit touchy (as before the update), everything seems a bit smoother. I really like this build on my SP3 and think it is quite an improvement. I hope another firmware update will make the experience even better. Love my SB so far.

 

[zerospace-net]

Finally took the update this morning, and since then I've had my SB re-install drivers for anything that wasn't attached at the time of the upgrade (annoying!). Windows Hello is still working fine here. Had one display driver crash, but I was in the middle of a game at the time and was taxing the system pretty hard with driver installs for some of my accessories (game running on nvidia GPU, but I had to switch back to my desktop where I saw the Intel display driver crash/recover message).

Otherwise, so far things seem generally OK. Some MS games now load in full screen mode for no reason (I'm in desktop mode 100% of the time, even with the clipboard detached). At least the update revived some of my live tiles that had stopped working (yay?). Seems smoother, but stability is about equal here so far. I'm still seeing lots of stupid little UI bugs and annoyances, and I still feel like 8.1 was more stable and consistent.

 

[Dush Ku]

Display driver still stops occasionally during IE browsing.
Windows Hello seems to have corrected itself now. It's opening to the desktop again.