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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 Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:45AM
Most people can NOT make their linux software better. Step outside of your own provincial little world and you find that not everyone is a programmer.
Even non-programmers benefit when anyone can work on the software. For one thing, they can hire anyone to implement their desired changes. For another, people will often decide to contribute to Free Software of their own accord, and non-programmers and programmers alike benefit.
Most proprietary software does exactly what it says it does.
And perhaps more. Maybe it also contains backdoors, violates the users' privacy, and has other anti-features. Who knows?
Those that don't cease to be purchased, and that pretty well kills them off.
Unless the problems aren't so staggering as to chase them away completely. Microsoft and Apple like to get people 'addicted' to their software as early as possible so that they are dependent upon it. It would take a colossal amount of abuse and screw ups to chase normal people away. And that's what proprietary software does: It forces you to be dependent upon your masters as long as you use it.