And as a double-bonus, if you had any updates hidden, say because they corrupted your machine, the cumulative update un-hid them so they get applied and, *boom*.
How can you not love the company that does this?
<Tweety Bird>I DO! I DO love them!</Tweety Bird>
We STILL do not have any Windows 10 machines (and I have ten never-used Win 7 boxes still in inventory for future expansion) for this reason.
But see, I think that the Windows 10 forced update "feature" is actually a design bug that has caused Microsoft to achieve only 50% of its projected adoption rate for this OS (even though they gave away most of those adoptions for free and deliberately tricked and defrauded a lot of people into the "adoption"). Eventually somebody over there is going to wake up and realize this fact, and fix it. They keep inching toward it with some little change every few months. So when they finally return to full user-control of updates, then I will be able to avail myself of what is otherwise, according to many reports, a pretty good operating system.
Ken
I have an Acer machine running Windows 10 Home and never had an problems with updates. Perhaps the Pro machines are a bit more fussy.
Laurie
On 10 August 2017 at 19:13, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
And as a double-bonus, if you had any updates hidden, say because they
corrupted your machine, the cumulative update un-hid them so they get applied and, *boom*.
How can you not love the company that does this?
<Tweety Bird>I DO! I DO love them!</Tweety Bird>
We STILL do not have any Windows 10 machines (and I have ten never-used Win 7 boxes still in inventory for future expansion) for this reason.
But see, I think that the Windows 10 forced update "feature" is actually a design bug that has caused Microsoft to achieve only 50% of its projected adoption rate for this OS (even though they gave away most of those adoptions for free and deliberately tricked and defrauded a lot of people into the "adoption"). Eventually somebody over there is going to wake up and realize this fact, and fix it. They keep inching toward it with some little change every few months. So when they finally return to full user-control of updates, then I will be able to avail myself of what is otherwise, according to many reports, a pretty good operating system.
Ken
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Laurie Alvey trukker41@gmail.com wrote:
I have an Acer machine running Windows 10 Home and never had an problems with updates. Perhaps the Pro machines are a bit more fussy.
Same was true of this box for about two years. Something in this update. It's russian roulette. It's fine, until it isn't.
The entire IT dept. is on win10 for 3 months now. No problems with updates and we get them all the time. Have two home laptops that have fared well also. Dell at work, Acer and HP at home.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Laurie Alvey trukker41@gmail.com wrote:
I have an Acer machine running Windows 10 Home and never had an problems with updates. Perhaps the Pro machines are a bit more fussy.
Laurie
On 10 August 2017 at 19:13, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
And as a double-bonus, if you had any updates hidden, say because they
corrupted your machine, the cumulative update un-hid them so they get applied and, *boom*.
How can you not love the company that does this?
<Tweety Bird>I DO! I DO love them!</Tweety Bird>
We STILL do not have any Windows 10 machines (and I have ten never-used Win 7 boxes still in inventory for future expansion) for this reason.
But see, I think that the Windows 10 forced update "feature" is actually
a
design bug that has caused Microsoft to achieve only 50% of its projected adoption rate for this OS (even though they gave away most of those adoptions for free and deliberately tricked and defrauded a lot of people into the "adoption"). Eventually somebody over there is going to wake up and realize this fact, and fix it. They keep inching toward it with some little change every few months. So when they finally return to full user-control of updates, then I will be able to avail myself of what is otherwise, according to many reports, a pretty good operating system.
Ken
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Likely running enterprise-class package management, with controlled releases, though, I would hope.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
The entire IT dept. is on win10 for 3 months now. No problems with updates and we get them all the time. Have two home laptops that have fared well also. Dell at work, Acer and HP at home.
Yep, four other machines here, server, workstation, desktop and tablet-thingie, and all the others (HP, Dell, Dell, Asus, respectively) updated without a hitch. Something with the Workstation-dual-graphics, Office 2013, software installed, Creator's Update, mumble, mumble... Outside of enterprise control, there are no two Windows machines that are identical. Different hardware, history, software, upgrades...
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