Microsoft Discovers Blocking Bug and Delays the Release of Windows 10 Spring Creators Update (betanews.com)

The next big update for Windows 10 has been delayed while Microsoft rushes to fix a newly-discovered bug. From a report: Known variously as Windows 10 version 1803, Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version Next, Redstone 4 and Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, it was widely thought that the update had reached RTM and was on the verge of rolling out. However, this last-minute discovery means there will be a little longer to wait.

Comments

I'll wait for Windows 11

[jfdavis668]

It's one louder

Re:I'll wait for Windows 11

[glenebob]

Why not just make 10 the top number and make that a little louder?

Re:I'll wait for Windows 11

[jfdavis668]

Good attempt, but it looks like a swing and a miss.

Re:I'll wait for Windows 11

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

But this one goes to 11

Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[JoeyRox]

Or maybe it's a bug in the telemetry data gathering. Or the forced patch updater that reboots your machine overnight so you lose all your work. Or the applet that delivers ads to your start menu.

Re:Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably couldn't reinstall Candy Crush after the user uninstalled it for the fifth time

Re:Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[WaffleMonster]

Consider the alternative: Millions of people who never installed ANY updates and had their systems compromised by spam bots, were used in DDoS attacks, or were doing something else that is a nuisance to the Internet community as a whole.

Millions of people "had their systems compromised" because they were successfully tricked into executing malware.

If all software bugs magically disappeared tomorrow nothing would change.

Re: Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[Anonymous Coward]

No it is not. MS keeps booting my machine nightly telling me it is installing latest win10. Just get to 82% done blows off and rollsback. Wipe machine and directly install win10 and goes though all the work and locks up in the boot. Reinstall working version. All drives are 64bit and current. It kepts reinstall win10 upgrade assistance after I deleted it.

WIN10 broken by design. Was leaving that machine to support win10 printing and 3D printing. But us totally unusable since it goes thought this update loop every time anyone logs on.

Thank you MS for the good work.
PS they do not know ehat is wrong either. .

Re:Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[JoeyRox]

You do realize that even from the very first release of Windows 10, you could configure it to prompt you to reboot instead of doing it automatically right?

No, I don't realize that because it's patently incorrect. First, the very first release of Windows 10 did not have this feature, as documented here. Second, the "feature", as described online, doesn't actually work, nor does the group policy method either.

You can nurse your various irrational reasons for disliking Microsoft, Windows, and whatever else all you want, no one here will really give two craps. Just don't crap all over threads with pointless posts that serve only to boost your own ego.

With the time you wasted trying to insult me you could have done a little research first and saved yourself some embarrassment.

Re: Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you even hear yourself right now? Go back and read what you yourself wrote.

Re:Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[sconeu]

Really????

Well I have used linux and I just got tired of the way the whole look and feel of it has to change every 5 years or so

Have you seen Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10?

Re:Window's ain't done until Google wont run

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

He successfully insulted you. You came back with an incensed and wholly unnecessary response.

No one is impressed.

Good on them!

[Anonymous Coward]

Good on them! This is a refreshing change from their usual practice of releasing Windows 10 updates on-time but with bugs that break some or all functionality.

Re: Good on them!

[Pubstar]

I wish they did the same with the fucking vNIC issued on Server 2008 too.

Obligatory "how to block this crap"

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Here's the obligatory "How to Uninstall and Block Updates and Drivers on Windows 10" article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-window?utm_source=twitter%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter
(Scroll down to "Download the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package now.")

since Microsoft still isn't smart enough to detect unsupported hardware and will still stupidly try to download and install huge updates dozens of times on machines that will never support them.

Re:Obligatory "how to block this crap"

[Anonymous Coward]

One on Slashdot thread, we have people bitching that Android updates are fragmented and dont show up for most devices... On the other thread, we've got people giving advice and instructions on how to disable Windows Update. What an overly joyful and glorious day it is to be reading the consistency of Slashdot today!

Re:Obligatory "how to block this crap"

[Megol]

This is probably a surprise to you but all people here (or elsewhere) are individuals (except bots) and so may have different opinions about things.

Re:Obligatory "how to block this crap"

[Junta]

So in Windows, you are force feed updates whether you like it or not, including functional changes that may or may not be quite ready. Updates are not merely there, you are stuck with them. Generally people welcomed the Windows updates prior to when 10 released, and then microsoft started cramming the most modern thing down every Windows device from 7 and up, and generally ruined trust in updates.

In Android, you frequently don't have a choice to even update, it's nice to at least have the choice.

Currently in the 'Windows updates are annoying' crowd, Android is worse because at least Microsoft does offer security and bugfixes for various updates, though it's an arcane art to *not* be advanced to the latest 6ish-month release.

Re:Obligatory "how to block this crap"

[Leslie43]

Mac is not exempt, but why complain about it in a thread about Windows?

Also, stop judging people by the computer they use, especially if you don't know what's inside or what they do with it, they just might make you look like the wanker.

Not surprised given the quality of their updates

[schwit1]

NIC settings are replaced or static IP address settings are lost after you install KB4088875 or KB4088878

Re:Not surprised given the quality of their update

[DigiShaman]

Lovely. That will play real nice with a Domain Controller. QA/QC at Micro$oft has gone to total shit; as if it wasn't already bad.

and apple has no downgrade rights or even

[Joe_Dragon]

and apple has no downgrade rights and some times has new hardware with pre release mac os updates on them.

VMXnet3

[Joe_Dragon]

well we only QA vm's on hyper-v or azure now!

Re: Not surprised given the quality of their updat

[Pubstar]

We got hit with this at work. Luckily we didn't run into trust issues but it did take us around 10 hours to run the "fix"they released.

Re:Compiler error delays release of Windows 10 upd

[ELCouz]

[Citation needed]

Re:Not surprised given the quality of their update

[SeaFox]

No, it is surprising, given the quality of their updates. I mean, think about it... This bug is so bad even Microsoft is not willing to ship with it still open. That must be a seriously nasty bug if they wont let it go.

Without the Spring Creators Update,

[John.Banister]

How will they create Spring? Did Jha hire Jadis of Charn?

Re:Without the Spring Creators Update,

[david_thornley]

And, if they haven't hired Jadis of Charn, why not? She's got the right attitude to make high-level decisions at Microsoft.

Trouble with the latest Service Pack..

[CptLoRes]

Ohh sorry.. I meant "Spring Creators Update".

Re:Not surprised given the quality of their update

[Mordaximus]

Lovely. That will play real nice with a Domain Controller. QA/QC at Micro$oft has gone to total shit; as if it wasn't already bad.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with your allegation that Microsoft has ever done QA/QC

A few linux distros could learn from this.

[Computershack]

Ubuntu has been released more than once with comments in Bugtraq from testers and developers saying "Show stopping bug, do not release" and Canonical has gone on and released it anyway because they put the deadline over everything and they're not the only Linux distro to do this. You should go read some Bugtraq reports in the days coming up to a new release of Ubuntu.

Re: Not surprised given the quality of their updat

[WallyL]

We got hit with this at work. Luckily we didn't run into trust issues but it did take us around 10 hours to run the "fix"they released.

Same here. The Windows team struggled for over 12 hours to roll back this patch manually. I was the one person on the (Windows+Linux) team they hadn't called, apparently, so I learned on Monday of the troubles.

Re:Not surprised given the quality of their update

[chrish]

Microsoft "restructured" the hell out of the QA group in 2014. Windows users are now the testers, but they don't seem to pay any attention to that Feedback tool in Win 10...

Re:Not surprised given the quality of their update

[david_thornley]

They didn't pay attention to user feedback for WIndows 8 either. Apparently, producing something more compatible with Windows Phone trumped people who merely wanted to get stuff done.