Windows 10 Update: Would You Like Deleted Files And Blue Screens With That?

Found on Forbes on Sunday, 26 April 2020
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With Windows 10 now installed on more than one billion devices, there will always be a wide variation in terms of user satisfaction. One area where this variation can be seen perhaps most clearly is that of updates. It has almost become the norm following the monthly Patch Tuesday update for users to take to support forums and complain that something or other has been borked as a result.

The problems those users are reporting to the Microsoft support forums and on social media have included the installation failing and looping back to restart again, the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) following a "successful" update and computers that simply refuse to boot again afterward. Among the more common issues, in terms of complaints after a Windows 10 update, were Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity related ones. But there were have also been users complaining that after a restart, all files from the C drive had been deleted.

Forcing people to upgrade is one of the reasons for problems. Yes, updates are important, but the decision should still be left to the administrator who knows the systems better than Microsoft.