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/
Submitted from IRC.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:13PM
Most proprietary software does exactly what it says it does. Those that don't cease to be purchased
Ah! the Grantham Grocer Fallacy [demon.co.uk]
Ie, that in a free market the "best" emerges by competition, and the inferior goes to the wall; no political or other outside interference is necessary or desirable. ...... In this free market theory there is an assumption, usually unspoken, that the customers are all-knowing and all-wise.
But they are not.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:18PM
I'll go a step further. A fair percentage of customers are damned fools.