Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

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https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-october-2018-changelog

 

Microsoft pulled the Windows 10 update that has been deleting files
A link to the October update has disappeared while it checks things out
October 6, 2018
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/06/windows-10-october-update-delete-pulled/

Edit:
Data-deletion bug forces Microsoft to suspend rollout of Windows 10 update
The bug had been reported by insiders, but it looks like nothing was done about it.
October 6, 2018
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...-latest-windows-10-update-over-data-loss-bug/

Edit 2:
Windows Insiders reported the Windows 10 file deletion problem to Microsoft months ago
October 8, 2018
https://betanews.com/2018/10/08/win...ile-deletion-problem-to-microsoft-months-ago/

 

Windows 10 updates - One step forward, one step back

Less is more. I etched this fine new article discussing the pros and cons of the Windows 10 updates mechanism, comparison to older versions of Windows, the upcoming changes and improvements, and a conceptual problem with the reinvention of the technological wheel. Or as Shakespeare wrote, much ado about nothing.

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-10-updates-progression-regression.html


Cheers,
Mrk

 

I mostly agree, but previous versions of Windows were not completely free of update problems. You will remember service packs; they were infrequent compared to Windows 10 feature updates, but they took time to install, required at least one reboot and occasionally failed with sometimes serious consequences. We did have a lot more control over if/when service packs installed, but unfortunately that sometimes resulted in some people never installing them which eventually caused security and compatibility problems. Still, removing control over updates to force everyone to install them brings its own problems as we are seeing.

I feel the underlying problem with Windows 10 is that Microsoft is treating it like an app. They keep adding features and touting what all we can do with it instead of letting it just be an OS. It used to be enough that the OS was a platform that you installed applications on and the thrust was stability and compatibility. If you wanted features you installed a relatively small application. Now the whole system is disrupted and put at risk to add features; not good

 

I remember the sp updates, and they were way faster and more reliable.
Mrk

 

Totally agree... the way MS is doing things now in 10 is just insanity.... as soon as I saw what they were doing 3 years ago, I knew it wouldn't work, and that in time, the entire system would crumble around it. If they had ANY intelligence at all, they would scrap 10 and pick up the Win 7 source code and continue from there... but we all know that will never happen, right?

 

Agree. And home users are the guinea pigs. And corps, their bread and butter, don't need or want the features.

 

And in the process of scrapping 10 they should work to recovering the series they skipped. As in Windows 9 IMO.

That skipping past a Windows 9 raised a huge red flag for some of Windows users

 

Microsoft moves printer drivers to Windows Update
October 07, 2018
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/10/07/microsoft-moves-printer-drivers-to-windows-update/

 

I thought Microsoft just didn't want to be one number behind Apple

 

As a matter of fact, my upgrade has been perfect, including one of my printers which for the first time did not need to be re-installed...

 

This was explained years ago. Windows 95, 98, etc. were often identified as version 9.x (instead of the 4.x it should have been though either was an option) so duplicating that number would cause issues with a LOT of outdated software that would think it was running on Windows 95.

 

I didn't know that, thanks

 

And people often scorned me when I said automatic updates should not be enabled - roughly 10 years ago ...
Mrk

 

Rather than everyone panicking over the greatly exaggerated issues with this update, how about taking a system image and on the rare chance you are affected by the deleted documents issue, restore them from your image. On the 10 PCs I have updated so far, still no issues.

 

The handwriting was clearly on the wall 10 years ago, and the foretelling of what was very likely to happen. And by golly, she happens somewhat frequently anymore.

Automatic updates- noop, they are just not there (reliably safe) yet if ever.

 

The issues were so greatly exaggerated that MS pulled the 1809 update completely....

 

As far as the metered connection option to block the 1809 Feature Upgrade on the Win 10 Home ver., it will only block the installation of it. It does not block the downloading of it. Thank you MS dork head.

 

While I wouldn't say that erasing user documents (even if it's only 1 user) is an exaggeration, those who did not have the issues and removed 1809 are most certainly having a paranoid fit. The update is now "tainted", who knows what else might be lurking in there.
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