Microsoft’s Windows Update system is broken. Will it ever be fixed?
For many years, Microsoft has struggled to get the way it updates Windows right - and mostly got it wrong.
For many years, Microsoft has struggled to get the way it updates Windows right - and mostly got it wrong.
For months Microsoft hid the fact that its Registry back-up feature no longer worked, while Windows 10 kept reporting that it was completing successfully.
Microsoft has quietly alerted customers running last year's Windows 10 version 1803 that it would soon start a forced upgrade to the latest feature refresh.
Fixing it would be easy: Just offer people the software they want to download.
The three-year gap between the current version 0 Windows 10 Enterprise LSTC 2019 - and the next will be the longest yet for Windows 10's most constant edition.
Microsoft will continue to include Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and the original Edge with Windows 10, according to a company program manager.
The move will allow companies who continue to use the legacy browser to run web sites or web apps inside the upcoming Chromium-based Edge.
Microsoft last week recommended that organisations no longer force employees to come up with new passwords every 60 days.
Microsoft largely stopped distributing the October 2018 Update in March, apparently deciding to simply skip one feature upgrade to solve the problem of two on a collision course.
Microsoft posts an early, public version of its Edge browser running on top of the Chromium platform used by Google Chrome.
Here we go again. Another Windows 10 rollout has been pushed back, showing the strain Microsoft is under to push out feature upgrades on its own six-month schedule.
End-of-support deadlines for a pair of Windows 10 feature upgrades will soon come into play, halting all updates, including security fixes, to affected devices.
Microsoft has given Windows 10 October 2018 Update the green light, telling customers that the upgrade is now ready for organisation-wide deployment.
A pair of Windows 10 feature upgrades will soon collide, with one just beginning to get traction on PCs as its successor readies for release.
The next iteration of Windows 10 will self-diagnose start-up failures and if necessary uninstall recent updates to get the PC up and running.