Microsoft's first cumulative update for Windows 10 - KB3081424 - is causing havoc for some users. How do I know this? Because I spent a good part of my Sunday morning dealing with it, that's how.
The problem, in a nutshell, is that the update puts affected systems into an endless crash loop. The update tries to install, gets to a certain point, fails, and then displays the unhelpful "We couldn't complete the updates, undoing the changes."
If it stopped there things wouldn't be too bad, but because Microsoft now forces updates onto Windows 10 users, the OS kept trying - and failing - to install the update, which in turn placed the system into a periodic crash/reboot loop that put quite a dent in my productivity.
To make matters worse, the tool that Microsoft released to hide or block toxic Windows 10 updates (as reported by my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott) didn't allow me to prevent this update from attempting to install. So I was forced to either abandon the machine until a fix was made available or try to fix it myself.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-cumulative-update-causes-reboot-loop-havoc-for-some-users/
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(Score: 2) by seeprime on Monday August 10 2015, @11:21PM
Thanks to the overconfidence of Microsoft forcing upgrades, our PC repair business is getting busier. Since more new machines are being upgraded daily, without the users making a system image first, the work will keep on coming in. We requested that each customer make a system image, using Macrium Reflect, prior to doing the Windows 10 upgrade. Many don't want to take the extra half hour to do so.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday August 11 2015, @03:11AM
I'm not sure it's overconfidence so much as a lack of faith in the endusers to actually install the updates. The thing I don't get is why they're doing it for more than just security updates. Adding new features like this is just asking for trouble.