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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 darkfeline on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:00PM
The average person can reasonably hire someone or ask a friend to add a feature or fix a bug in FREE software. It would likely be cheaper than, e.g., calling a plumber. That's why FREE software is so important; go read some of Richard Stallman's writings. He may be crazy or autistic, but his fears have proved true time and again.
The same cannot be said for proprietary software.
>Most proprietary software does exactly what it says it does.
Not really. Having dealt with a lot of misbehaving software, I have observed that in reality the rate of "misbehavior" is more or less the same between free and proprietary software. The difference is that in free software, it is much easier to fix. Either someone else has already fixed it for you, you can fix it yourself, or, as I note previously, you can hire or ask someone to do it for you. Believe it or not, most FOSS devs are happy to improve FOSS software as long as you ask nicely.
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