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posted by janrinok on Monday August 10 2015, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly

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 HiThere on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:22PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:22PM (#221457) Journal

    I'm sorry, but in my experience FOSS software is more likely to perform as it claims to perform than is proprietary software. This despite the fact that most claims made by proprietary software vendors are so vague that they cannot be falsified. (The benefit of a marketing division.)

    That said, there were decades when I had niche needs that were not properly filled by FOSS software. That has become much less true over time. It's true that the place filled by Deneba Canvas is not properly filled even by a combination of the Gimp and Inkscape...but it's pretty close. And the spot filled by Finale is not properly filled even by a combination of Muse (MuseScore?) and Frescobaldi. But it's close.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:06AM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:06AM (#221501) Journal

    But don't forget that it only in the last several years that interoperability with Windows document formats finally arrived in the Linux world. Mostly in the form of ODF packages that were released for both windows, mac and linux.

    The arrival LO and OO allowed many many shops to solve the document handling issues, usually by abandoning MS Office all together. Its amazing how quickly most people can make that jump and never look back.

    These days you can survive in a microsoft shop running any modern distro, usually causing no inconvenience to yourself or your workmates. That wasn't always true. For a while, my day job specialized in the integration of Linux workstations and servers into windows shops. There were things that didn't work well, there were things that didn't work at all.

    Quickbooks (love it or hate it, it still rules) is still a nightmare, unless the users use the semi-functional on-line version, or run something under wine or in a VM.

    As a lone user, you might find some not-too-horrible combinations of packages that do what you want, (or almost), but as soon as your work product depends on others, and their's on your work product, things get tricky.

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