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Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission

posted by mrpg on Saturday June 23 2018, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the systemd dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

If you've been trying to keep Microsoft's forced updates and upgrades off your machine, your job just got harder. With KB 4056254, we now have a new Win10 Update Facilitation Service joining its comrade-in-arms Update Assistant V2 to ensure no patch gets blocked.

You can look at the new KB 4056254 Win10 Update Facilitation Service and the re-emergence of Win10 Update Assistant V2 from two different perspectives. On the one hand, you have those poor hapless Win10 users who accidentally munged Windows Update. On the other hand, you have folks with bazookas and flamethrowers who want to keep some semblance of control over updating their machines.

Both groups now face two different Microsoft initiatives to reset Windows Update.

[...] Seems, from April to June 2018, some savvy Win 10 users have found new ways to disable or block Windows Update. So, M$ has to come out with KB4056254 to "neutralize" their efforts. It's like a cat-and-mouse game.

Which seems to me like the core of the matter. It's not nice to mess with Mother Microsoft's patching schemes, so you're going to get a few new services running in the background to whop your system upside the head if you dare to block patches.

Sources:
Win10 Update Facilitation Service joins Update Assistant V2 to make sure you get patched | Computerworld
Watch out: Win10 Update Facilitation as a Service and a new push for the Update Assistant | AskWoody

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday June 25 2018, @02:35PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday June 25 2018, @02:35PM (#698134) Journal

    Libre Office is wonderful, and I use it for my own work - but the moment I need to collaborate with someone else - it's got to be MS Office - 90% compatibility just doesn't cut it when you're trying to get work done. And yeah,that one is totally the fault of MS and their intentional file format sabotage, but that doesn't let me get away from it (though I always savor the moments when I get to rescue old MS Office files using LO, since age or corruption has made them incompatible with MS Office's fragile file loader.

    Eh...I used to do that, but 95% of the time I'd jump through hoops to find some legitimate MS Office install that I could use, only to find that MS Office had *the exact same problems* with the file as LO did. So I gave up on even trying that. If a file loads weird in LO, it loads weird and I deal with it. MS Office users are generally used to those issues since, as you said, they have to deal with it often enough just loading files from different versions of Office. I've never once had a complaint. Although when possible I save in PDF, which eliminates all issues for static documents...last time I checked that isn't supported on MS Office without installing special printer drivers and "printing" to PDF...

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