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Microsoft "extremely careless"
I have a dual-boot machine with Win10 on one partition. This morning, Windows installed a large update with the comment "your machine will restart several times". Sure enough, the update took forever, and afterwards...there's only Windows 10 left.
I haven't yet gone spelunking with a LiveCD, but Win10 updates have been known to nuke entire partitions, not just the bootloader. Time will tell...
For what it's worth, the Windows update history shows: KB 3176937, 3176935, and 3193494. This would appear to be a group of updates that lead to "Windows 10 version 1607".
Microsoft Delivers Another Broken Windows 10 Update
This week, Microsoft pushed out another cumulative update and reports of installation problems are widespread. While I don't know how many users are impacted, based on comments sent to me, it's certainly widespread enough that this is well beyond an isolated issue.
The update that is causing the problem, KB3194496, is not installing correctly for users. The update, when it does fail, is causing some machines to restart, often multiple times, as Windows 10 attempts to remove the failed update. Worse, after a restart, the file will attempt to install again resulting in the loop of failed install, reboot, re-install and failure again.
Some users have reported that the cumulative update did install correctly on the second or third attempt while others have said that it fails every time.
[...] Microsoft is pushing the idea that you should always patch your machine on the day the update is released as they often release security patches that fix vulnerabilities. But, until the company can get a handle on their quality control issues, such as the Anniversary update breaking millions of webcams, it feels like every time you run Windows update you are rolling the dice.
Some have found a solution to their problem here.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday October 03 2016, @07:05PM
Let me know when you find a cure for PowerPoint addiction. And a therapy that actually works to help people overcome FUD, especially that nebulous kind that portrays open source and libre software as unreliable, unpolished, unmaintained, not standardized, and stuck in a small network. Many times I've heard lusers say they have to use MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint not because they're in love with it but because they're afraid alternatives are worse and that's what their correspondents use and insist upon. It's incredible how strong MS's hold is on people with a more authoritarian or fearful mindset. I wonder if there's any correlation between being a Catholic, what with the highly hierarchical organization with a Pope second only to God and Jesus, and being an MS Office user, while Protestants are more likely to use libre software.
After a trip to the Argonne National Laboratory, I got an email with an attached survey asking me for my opinions about the visit. The survey was a freaking Word file. It's still big news when a government dumps MS Office to switch to libre software.