Your thoughts of the new style of Windows updates?

Ramiel · December 14, 2016, 5:23am

The new 'style' is 'fuck the end user.'

Windows Updates, the terrible future of M$ Windows

I was in the middle of this post and made the terrible mistake of running Windows updates while typing, but I haven't had issues in some time so I figured 'whatever.' A terrible mistake IDK WTF is going on at M$... but wow. \ Your recent update not only removed my MBR (as in, completely fucking deleted it), it also managed to blork the bootrec tool. After digging up my disc and getting it to work and fix my MBR issue, I come back to the wrong date and time (2008?) and this BS: [image] which I didn't install, and isn't on my add/remove list. Thanks M$, really. This is 'testing' in the new age for M$. Just leave the user to figure it out. I wouldn't doubt that I'll get calls for something like this later this week if it happens elsewhere. I constantly see posts here and elsewhere dealing with issues like 'I now get BSODs frequently' or 'My device drivers are missing' or 'I didn't install that' or, let's not forget my personal favorite: 'the new update made my machine unbootable' which is like every windows 10 machine I've dealt with. Its funny, because I have many users who say things like 'but I barely used it' and its difficult to explain to them how a shitty OS update caused the problem. Its hard to convince end-users they should keep their machines updated with shit like this happening constantly. On the other side of the coin, I'm complaining a lot but dumb stuff like this keeps me in business, with a constant flow of customers willing to pay 40$+ just to fix issues like this in a timely manner.

@Baz
I'm sorry but I no longer agree with that thread. You can't blame the end user if they didn't do anything but update their machine. It shouldn't be our job to have to check ever update that m$ puts out, that is something for large organizations but not end users, not 'the little guy.' Its hard to convince my customers to continue to keep their machines updated for security purposes with stuff like this happening constantly.
As I mention, inversely it keeps me in business. But I think stuff like this isn't the end user, its m$, and perhaps one day they will pay for it in the industry.