Anyone can download Win10SDK?
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Seems the download link for Win10 SDK (14393) at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk and other places in Microsoft sites all redirects to Microsoft main website.
EDIT: Now it's strange. The link redirects to wrong place on IE11 / Edge on Win10, but works correctly when download from IE11 on Win7. Maybe they've forgotten to update their browser profile for web server?
Similarly, Yahoo mail's new interface won't work on IE11 after the update now. I guess the user agent string has been changed.
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Works fine on my machine
IE11, Edge and Chrome on Windows 10.
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@cheong said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
The link redirects to wrong place on IE11 / Edge on Win10, but works correctly when download from IE11 on Win7.
Hah! Same old shit Microsoft website. One of these days, someone will persuade them to always serve the same content up from the same link, whoever is asking, even if that day is apparently not today.
Also, one of these days we'll find that hell has frozen over.
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@anonymous234 said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
Works fine on my machine
IE11, Edge and Chrome on Windows 10.
Just check the link still doesn't work. Maybe you've not installed the anniversary update yet?
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@cheong Nope, I installed it yesterday.
Interesting, I tried again right now after only changing the system language and it stopped working
https://aboutmybrowser.com/7qzDl-TL --> works
https://aboutmybrowser.com/hbyVC_Cq --> redirects to main page
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@anonymous234 So maybe "if your machine's language is not after the scheduled time for Win10 update yet, you can't download the SDK?
Did the web cry foul for me updating via standalone installer? Maybe I've "broke the internet" ?
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@cheong said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
The link redirects to wrong place on IE11 / Edge on Win10
E_WOMM. Is it possible you're on the Insider Preview and not the final release, somehow? (Assuming those are different)
Maybe this'll help: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=822845 It should be a direct link to the 'sdksetup.exe' for the standalone sdk.
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@dkf said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
One of these days, someone will persuade them to always serve the same content up from the same link, whoever is asking, even if that day is apparently not today.
They're hardly the only ones who do that. At least they're not doing the thing some FF nutcases used to do where they'd give you a "fuck you, you can't have the page, you're using IE".
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@FrostCat said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
They're hardly the only ones who do that.
Yes, but they're the ones who most thoroughly like to break old links to content that isn't fundamentally changing very much (such as to various pages in the Windows API documentation).
Not the worst I've seen, to be fair, but still very annoying.
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@dkf said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
Yes, but they're the ones who most thoroughly like to break old links
I was going to say something about how lots of sites do that, but yeah, they're pretty comprehensive about rewriting the entire URL structure once a decade or so, and not putting redirects in for a lot of things.
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@FrostCat said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
@cheong said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
The link redirects to wrong place on IE11 / Edge on Win10
E_WOMM. Is it possible you're on the Insider Preview and not the final release, somehow? (Assuming those are different)
Maybe this'll help: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=822845 It should be a direct link to the 'sdksetup.exe' for the standalone sdk.
That's the link that fails on Win10.
Btw, since I've downloaded it on my Win7 machine, and remote desktop supports copy & paste for files, I've copied the downloaded file to home to run it yesterday.
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@dkf said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
@FrostCat said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
They're hardly the only ones who do that.
Yes, but they're the ones who most thoroughly like to break old links to content that isn't fundamentally changing very much (such as to various pages in the Windows API documentation).
Not the worst I've seen, to be fair, but still very annoying.
TRWTF is that, go.microsoft.com 's forward link function was created exactly for dealing with this kind of problem, so in theory there will be no more dead link to important Microsoft resources.
Instead, I see more and more such links now just redirects to Microsoft homepage or Microsoft Supports page.
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@cheong said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
That's the link that fails on Win10.
that's bizarre. I got it on a Win10 machine! Just checked, and it works on my home machine too--downloads the 14393.33 SDK, the installer says.
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@FrostCat As @anonymous234 found out, this is related to language settings of the browser. If your browser language is en-us, then most likely you're not affected by this problem.
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@cheong said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
If your browser language is en-us
That is my primary language. I'm not going to try changing it to verify this because I don't know if I could get it back.
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@FrostCat said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
@cheong said in Anyone can download Win10SDK?:
If your browser language is en-us
That is my primary language. I'm not going to try changing it to verify this because I don't know if I could get it back.
I understand your trepidation. I don't think I could truly switch languages, as embedded as everything is in my system. It would involve massive re-linking that I don't think would be safe or reliable...