Microsoft Delays Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Because of 'Higher Percentage of BSODs' (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:20AM from the behind-the-curtains dept.

Microsoft has admitted that it had to postpone the release of Spring Creators Update, the upcoming major update to its Windows 10 desktop operating system due to technical issues. BleepingComputer notes: More precisely, Microsoft says it encountered a higher percentage of Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors on PCs, the company's Insiders Program managers said in a blog post yesterday. Microsoft says that instead of shipping the Springs Creators Update faulty as it was, and then delivering an update later to fix the issues, it decided to hold off on deploying the defective build altogether. The OS maker says it will create and test a new Windows 10 build that also includes the BSOD fixes, and ship that one instead of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17134, the build that was initially scheduled to be launched as the Spring Creators Update on April 10, last week.

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Re:Thanks Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · 2018-04-17 04:11 · Score: 2, Insightful

This is probably because the new default is to just reboot when Windows crashes.
tl;dr: Windows doesn't "BSOD" anymore unless you explicitly ask it to display the BSOD screen.