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Microsoft's Fall Creators Update Already on More Than Half of All Windows 10 PCs (betanews.com)
Wayne Williams, writing for BetaNews: Microsoft releases two big feature updates a year for Windows 10. 2017 saw the arrival of the Creators Update in April, followed by the Fall Creators Update in October. The Creators Update was a slow and at times problematic release. A quarter of Windows 10 users still didn't have it by the time its successor rolled out. Thankfully, Microsoft seems to have learned some important lessons, and the Fall Creators Update is being installed at a much faster rate. According to the latest figures from AdDuplex, a mere two months after it launched, the Fall Creators Update (1709) is already on more than half of the Windows 10 PCs in use -- 53.6 percent to be precise. That's up from 20.5 percent a mere month ago.
>> it's not a pretty solution
It's not even a solution. Seriously, it's nearly 2018 and people are still suggesting disabling Windows Update as a viable solution to anything at all?! If your lack of trust or Microsoft is that deep, then how can you trust your operating system at all? Either use Windows and keep the damn thing updated and out of a botnet that will affect others, or switch to an alternative OS that you do trust.
If you have the Pro version of Windows 10, you can trivially delay the installation of major updates for up to six months, which is plenty of time for MS to get the bugs ironed out. With Microsoft in general (and Windows 10 in particular), either you're in and constantly-updated, or you're left behind and unsecured. I can understand people not liking that, but that's the way Windows works these days, so forget bad pseudo-solutions and either sign up or log out and move to MacOS, Linux, BSD, Android...