It’s perhaps of no surprise that the end of the year brings forth a list of some sort. In this case, we take a look at the 10 news posts that our readers found most comment-worthy.
The usual assortment of end-of-year lists would be woefully incomplete without us acknowledging what is one of the most important parts of Neowin: the community. To that end, we’ve put together a compilation of news stories that had the most user interaction in 2018.
Not taking into consideration giveaway posts – that’d be cheating -, reviews, or editorials, here are the 10 news stories which made you most eager to express an opinion:
Hot on the heels of the reveal for the trio of processor vulnerabilities known as Spectre (v1, v2) and Meltdown, Linus Torvalds was not at all impressed with Intel’s handling of the situation.
User Noir Angel was on Torvalds’ side, saying:
On the other hand, Fahim S. had this to say:
There was a small window of time in which Microsoft was considering ‘Spring Creators Update’ as the official name for Redstone 4. It thankfully settled on the more sensible April 2018 Update denomination later, but we didn’t know that at the time.
Unsurprisingly, users weren’t impressed. For example, samw61 said this:
slamfire92 was in favor of something much simpler:
Around the release of the April 2018 Update, build 17133 was present in the Release Preview ring, which usually meant it had a good chance of being made available to non-Insiders. However, due to an issue unknown outside of Microsoft, 17133 lost its RTM designation and was subsequently replaced by 17134.
Breach saw this development in a positive light:
However, mzta cody wasn’t too pleased with it:
On top of the other documented bugs, some users were even experiencing lack of audio with the latest Windows 10 feature update.
