Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:00AM from the what's-happening? dept.

For the past two days, some Windows 10 users from around the world have been reporting that they are unable to connect to Windows Update. When they attempt to do so, Windows 10 will complain that they are unable to connect to the update service. From a report: We first learned about this problem yesterday when our member Opera contacted us stating that they, and many others, were having issues connecting to Windows Update. When they tried updating, Windows would report that it could not connect to the update service. The wording of the error, shown below, indicates that this is an Internet connectivity issue, but others are not so sure. "We couldn't connect to the update service. We'll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn't work, make sure you're connected to the Internet" Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer as to what is causing this issue and some feel it is related to a botched Windows Defender update and others state that this could be a DNS issue.

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They didn't pay their internet bill by pgmrdlm · 2019-01-31 08:11 · Score: 2, Informative

Just did updates with my windows 10 machine yesterday

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1. Re:They didn't pay their internet bill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:14 · Score: 0
  
  Wait, not being able to connect to the Wuss (Window Update ServerS) -- isn't that a feature?
  CAP === 'uplift'
2. Re: They didn't pay their internet bill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:17 · Score: 0
  
  I feel you bro, I do it here all of the time ...
  Time to reset the Windows Update Failure(tm) Clock ...
  CAP === 'prowlers'
3. Re: They didn't pay their internet bill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 11:51 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, not paying your bill gets you disconnected from Windows Updates but you still get to surf the rest of the net for free.
  New headline:
  Many Windows 10 users notice their computer is actually pretty fast now that their hard drive isn't stuck at 100% activity with updates for hours.
4. Re:They didn't pay their internet bill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-01 01:12 · Score: 0
  
  Maybe they have just disabled updates.
5. Re: They didn't pay their internet bill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-01 08:04 · Score: 0
  
  Maybe they should dump Microsoft Spyware 10 Marketing Platform(tm) and switch to using an operating system.
Didn't pay Windows Subscription by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:12 · Score: 0, Funny

They forgot to pay their monthly fee for the privilege of using the worst O/S on the planet.
Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Hopefully they won't fix this, sounds like a god-send.
1. Re:Don't fix! by lgw · 2019-01-31 08:24 · Score: 1
  
  Hopefully they won't fix this, sounds like a god-send.
  Yeah, good thing there's no security risk involved in DNS issues with Windows Update. I can't think of anything an attacker could do by hijacking Windows Update to install arbitrary software patches. It'll be fine.
  
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2. Re:Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:05 · Score: 0
  
  If a malicious actor has access to Microsofts signing key then they've got bigger problems than Windows Updates, don't you think? Or did you really believe that Windows will just install anything if it's from a site it thinks is an Updates server?
3. Re:Don't fix! by bobs666 · 2019-01-31 09:23 · Score: 1
  
  Windows 7 was better...
  Better yet Run Linux
  I need to stop buying laptops with hardware w/out drivers
4. Re:Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:49 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Windows 2000 was better.
  Honestly Windows 2000 with 7's UAC admin-escalation, user mode drivers, and modern direct X would be fantastic.
  Everything else they've added has been regressive.
5. Re:Don't fix! by Joe_Dragon · 2019-01-31 10:12 · Score: 1
  
  let's use DNS to point to your WSUS system with an few added non MS updates in the list.
6. Re: Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:29 · Score: 0
  
  Which Windows Update will immediately reject because the update is not signed by Microsoft, and Windows Update is not being told to install it by a GPO. (Group Policy Object.)
  So no even if your DNS was poisoned, you're safe. Quit spreading FUD. MS may be bad on security but this was an issue way back with the first Windows Update in Windows 98. They dealt with this a long time ago.
7. Re:Don't fix! by rtb61 · 2019-01-31 13:10 · Score: 1
  
  Cough, cough, they already do hijack personalised windows updates with a security letter, seriously you are not that gullible to not realise that is eactly why they personalised operating system updates. Your windows anal probe 10 update is personalised to you and your computers, and when the US government wants software added to it, including firmware changes, M$ the pieces of shit do it and against the law, globally.
  Windows anal probe 10 update, breaks windows update, finally a windows update worthy of the name, one that blocks all future windows updates, I am sure a lot of people are interested in that update and how to replicate it.
  
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8. Re:Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 14:16 · Score: 0
  
  How can I get this for my company?
9. Re: Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 18:56 · Score: 0
  
  So no even if your DNS was poisoned, you're safe.
  No, but not for the reason mentioned.
  If someone can stop you from getting new updates they have plenty of time to exploit found security holes that should have been patched out months ago.
10. Re: Don't fix! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-02 12:14 · Score: 0
  
  There was successful attack against Windows Update that was plastered all over the tech news sites not too many years ago where some company had a transparent HTTPS proxy and a self signed CA installed on all machines and didn't exclude the WSUS server. Someone gained access to the internal network, convinced the proxy to connect to a compromised device that acted like the Windows Update service, and their WSUS blindly trusted it and installed the malware on all Windows systems via Windows Update. When this was brought up, Microsoft responded by saying "HTTPS proxy is a bad idea, you break authentication that WSUS uses HTTPS to validate. Working as intended, will not change."
  
  Even in firewall forums, if you mention HTTPS proxy, they almost always right away mention to not proxy Windows Update for this exact reason.
Let's call that group the lucky ones by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:15 · Score: 5, Funny

They win!
1. Re:Let's call that group the lucky ones by quenda · 2019-01-31 17:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In unrelated news, PC uptime and productivity sets record high.
The windows update systems seems to choke at times by Joe_Dragon · 2019-01-31 08:16 · Score: 1

The windows update systems seems to choke at times.
See it with windows 2016 as well.
What's the issue? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:16 · Score: 2, Funny

Sounds ideal to me!
1. Re:What's the issue? by Jetstream · 2019-01-31 09:15 · Score: 2
  
  Defender is doing its job then. It's protecting Windows machines from MS updates!
Lame error messages by hiroshimarrow · 2019-01-31 08:17 · Score: 3, Insightful

If MS were to write error messages that meant anything, people might know more about what the problem is. But having a core (and forced) component of the OS telling someone they are offline just because the update server can't be seen is nonsense. Half their messages are meaningless garbage now, trying not to scare the layperson, and helping the professional even less with each new iteration.
1. Re:Lame error messages by az-saguaro · 2019-01-31 08:47 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Agree, and it's not just the error messages. Ask tech support for help, and it's the same lameness. Go to an MS support forum, and their "experts" know less than a third grader, just enough to read the scripts.
  MS has never bothered to provide meaningful support for its users. Remember, you are a user, not a customer. The customers are the hardware OEM's who buy Windows to put on the machines, not you the end user who paid money to the OEM but not to MS, so why should MS care.
  The disturbing thing is to think that those inept user interactions might reflect how things work in general throughout the organization.
2. Re:Lame error messages by ISoldat53 · 2019-01-31 09:11 · Score: 1
  
  Are you new to this show? MS has had this problem since DOS.
3. Re:Lame error messages by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:42 · Score: 1
  
  Go to an MS support forum, and their "experts" know less than a third grader, just enough to read the scripts.
  Try this:
  1. Open settings that don't apply to your issue.
  2. Tweak option that couldn't possibly be construed as being related to your issue.
  3. Fuck yourself with a Microsoft branded silicone dick to take your mind off how stupid this proposed solution is.
  4. Shoot yourself.
4. Re:Lame error messages by drinkypoo · 2019-01-31 12:42 · Score: 1
  
  Are you new to this show? MS has had this problem since DOS.
  Most OSes do. Classic MacOS always had stupid error messages. The only one I've used which really had good ones was AIX. Every error has a unique code, and you can actually look them up...
  
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5. Re: Lame error messages by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-01 06:10 · Score: 0
  
  Actually, ie used to have a setting to give useful error messages (but of course this was not the default). At least you knew if it was dns, or the server was down, or the interface was down. They got rid of those somewhere around vista.
Not the droids you're looking for by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:19 · Score: 0

Isn't this a feature? There is nothing there you would want.
Lets hope its not a DNS issue so microsoft doesn't "fix" blackholing their servers.
Oh please ... as if error message helps ... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:20 · Score: 2

The wording of the error, shown below, indicates that this is an Internet connectivity issue, but others are not so sure. "We couldn't connect to the update service. We'll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn't work, make sure you're connected to the Internet"
Seriously, are these people thinking they're going to understand the problem from reading the error message?
Microsoft has dumbed down error messages to the point they don't actually say anything, at that point it's a "for instance".
Like their useless wizards that say "Windows is looking for a solution to your problem" and then just eventually times out and points you to the on-line help ... those wizards have never solved a problem, and the error messages aren't based on anything other than "what is the least scary message we can present to the user?"
That entire message boils down to something bad happened, maybe the internet is broke. It has about as much diagnostic value as a fart in a windstorm.
Why is anybody pretending those messages have conveyed any useful information in years? Because, really, they haven't.
Wow, so this is, what, 3 days and 3 major outages of MS online shit? My how they're sucking these days.
1. Re:Oh please ... as if error message helps ... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:13 · Score: 0
  
  Just because it isn't solved any of your problems doesn't mean the wizard doesn't solve problems every single day.
  When applications have known compatibility issues with Windows that break Windows functionality I routinely see warning messages telling me to go get the latest patch for the app to prevent the problem.
  Error messages that pop up for the user to see have always been useless. Any admin even slightly interested in Windows Administration already knows the actual error is in the event log. Windows Update vague error? Go to Windows Update log and get the actual error code which then takes less than 10 minutes to resolve usually by resetting windows update and renaming the softwaredistribution folder. Can't get a GPO to apply? Go to the GPO log. Remote desktop session jacked up? You guessed it, there is a lot for that as well. Some are disabled by default so you enable them for troubleshooting but the Windows event system is one that that has improved in Windows 10 especially compared to Windows 7 which just let you think there was voodoo going on sometimes.
  Sounds to me like you're complaining Windows 10 is more friendly to users who don't want to see error messages let alone technical jargon they then have to read over the phone to some support script carrying poor bastard.
  GPO is orders of magnitude more useful in newer versions of Windows as well.
  This Windows Update "Outage" just smacks of me too syndrome that I see all the time. When you actually do have a legitimate outage the next few days users all complain about every little thing thinking the outage is still ongoing. It almost never occurs to them that they could be having a separate issue!
2. Re:Oh please ... as if error message helps ... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:32 · Score: 0
  
  This Windows Update "Outage" just smacks of me too syndrome that I see all the time. When you actually do have a legitimate outage the next few days users all complain about every little thing thinking the outage is still ongoing. It almost never occurs to them that they could be having a separate issue!
  
  Yes but Windows was sold on the basis of being so very "Easy To Use!" above all else. Are you shocked this is the kind of clientele it attracts?
Bet you anything by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2019-01-31 08:22 · Score: 4, Funny

The Windows telemetry on the other hand probably has no trouble connecting whatsoever.

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1. Re:Bet you anything by ljw1004 · 2019-01-31 09:00 · Score: 2
  
  The Windows telemetry on the other hand probably has no trouble connecting whatsoever.
  I'd hope so! Because if it couldn't, then everyone at Microsoft would be running completely blind as to whether people are running into this problem and in what number. It's only with telemetry that they can figure out what group of people are affected and go from there to a cause.
  (They could try to figure out who's affected without telemetry, solely by going from feedback that people themselves write on twitter or forum posts. But that's always a lower-quality signal, and would overrepresent tech-savy folks).
  I'm quite serious here. Everyone knee-jerk criticizes telemetry without thinking through the effectiveness of alternative means of discovering and prioritizing bugs.
2. Re:Bet you anything by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:29 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  I'm quite serious here. Everyone knee-jerk criticizes telemetry without thinking through the effectiveness of alternative means of discovering and prioritizing bugs.
  You are such a complete and utter fucking moron it defies belief, did you know that?
  What you are saying is pretty much the same bullshit argument the fascists and other assholes who want constant surveillance ... think of the children, it's for your own good, we need to catch criminals.
  Fuck you.
  Microsoft decreed that the details of everyone's personal computer was theirs, that your usage history is for them to have, and that they can do any and all things to your computer as they see fit.
  Microsoft put telemetry into the OS to measure how effective their forced upgrade to Windows 10 was.
  If Microsoft wants to measure the magnitude of their suck, go back to having a goddamned fucking QA department instead of making us the fucking beta testers. Instead they've basically been playing fast and loose, putting out shit quality software, and then when it breaks relying on telemetry after-the-fact to see what they did wrong.
  You are saying the moral equivalent of "hey, it's OK for Microsoft to spy on you, it's for your own good" ... or "you have nothing to hide if you have nothing to fear".
  Sorry, in my book, uttering that shit gets you a sound beating with a sock full of nickles.
  Go ahead, hand your privacy over to Microsoft, but don't expect anything but a punch in the head if you suggest I should be required to do the same.
  Asshole.
3. Re:Bet you anything by Knightman · 2019-01-31 10:38 · Score: 2
  
  Instead of treating their customers as beta-testers in some regards while siphoning up telemetry data they could put some effort into making their products a bit more robust while at the same produce sane error messages and stop putting out useless updates that for example upgrades Notepad to "The 3D Extravaganza VR Experience DELUXE Version (now with multi-strawberry pixel-sounds!)".
  Imagine you buy a new car, after a month it wont start with a message on the dash saying "Ops! Something went wrong!" and nothing else. You get it towed to a Certified Mechanicâ that diagnoses the fault while charging you a bunch of money. He informs you that the car wont start because one of your tires has a too low pressure and wonder if you want to swap it out whereupon you go WTF? while wondering why the heck the original message on the dash couldn't have told you about the low pressure so you could have adjusted it.
  That's the experience many MS products leaves us right now.
  Anyway, rant over...
  
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4. Re:Bet you anything by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:44 · Score: 0
  
  What you are saying is pretty much the same bullshit argument the fascists and other assholes who want constant surveillance ... think of the children, it's for your own good, we need to catch criminals.
  Fascists and other assholes keep doing this because it keeps working. The average moron keeps failing to learn the lesson. No amount of recorded history works when people hate learning and hate thinking. No amount of history helps when the attitude is "but MY government is so special it Can't Happen Here!"
  
  If Microsoft wants to measure the magnitude of their suck, go back to having a goddamned fucking QA department instead of making us the fucking beta testers. Instead they've basically been playing fast and loose, putting out shit quality software, and then when it breaks relying on telemetry after-the-fact to see what they did wrong.
  I agree fully. That's why I don't use any Microsoft software. Isn't that simple? So what are you so riled up about anyway?
  
  Sorry, in my book, uttering that shit gets you a sound beating with a sock full of nickles.
  Pea gravel works too, in case you don't feel like going to the bank and getting that much change.
  The problem is that the beating doesn't help when the recipient doesn't understand what they did wrong. They'll just think you're a violent asshole. Ironically, they may support more surveillance to help "protect" them against future violence.
5. Re:Bet you anything by Obfuscant · 2019-01-31 11:19 · Score: 1
  
  Imagine you buy a new car, after a month it wont start with a message on the dash saying "Ops! Something went wrong!" and nothing else.
  You mean like a "check engine" light?
6. Re:Bet you anything by Knightman · 2019-01-31 11:36 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You mean like a "check engine" light?
  If you car shows a "check engine" light when your tire pressure is low it may have been built by Microsoft.
  
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7. Re:Bet you anything by Obfuscant · 2019-01-31 11:56 · Score: 2
  
  If you car shows a "check engine" light when your tire pressure is low it may have been built by Microsoft.
  Your car shows "check engine" for all kinds of stupid problems, including a "loose gas cap". Replace "low tire pressure" with that and you've got exactly the problem you are ranting about.
  In other words, Microsoft is not unique in this kind of useless warning.
8. Re: Bet you anything by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-01 06:16 · Score: 0
  
  Microsoftâ(TM)s forced upgrade to windows 10 resulted in linux mint being installed on all my windows boxes.
Act Of God by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:25 · Score: 0

God Smitheth Those Whoeth Abuseth Theireth Selveths. So Spoketh Zarathustra.
1. Re:Act Of God by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:01 · Score: 0
  
  Have you thought about having that lithp fixthed?
Lucky bastards by jfdavis668 · 2019-01-31 08:33 · Score: 4, Interesting

Unfortunately, mine is still receiving updates.
Can we isolate this trait and make an installer? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:37 · Score: 0

Don't keep the goodies to yourself. Spread the freedom.
Not a bug by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:41 · Score: 2, Funny

Not a bug. This is a feature.
How far along into death by 1000 cuts is Win10? by ITRambo · 2019-01-31 08:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

Windows 10 must be more than halfway through driving consumers onto a much faster student-oriented platform (ChromeOS), a superior OS (Linux Mint, etc), or a competitor (Mac)S). I can't believe how shitty the OS service has been, and how often the cloud "breaks", under Satya's "leadership".
1. Re:How far along into death by 1000 cuts is Win10? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:09 · Score: 3
  
  I can't believe how shitty the OS service has been, and how often the cloud "breaks", under Satya's "leadership".
  Agreed. I did not think that anyone could top the incompetence that had lead to the release of Windows Vista, but here we are.
  Despite all of his shenanigans, Ballmer was never as bad as Nadella.
2. Re:How far along into death by 1000 cuts is Win10? by SurenEnfiajyan · 2019-01-31 09:20 · Score: 4
  
  Yeah, the only bad side of Windows 8/8.1 is the UI, which can be fixed by classic shell, but otherwise it's very solid underneath and faster.
3. Re:How far along into death by 1000 cuts is Win10? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:56 · Score: 0
  
  I'm not a Windows fan, but at least with Windows 8.x I didn't go so far as to ban it from my household. Windows 10 is like a spyware virus and from a usability standpoint utterly useless.
4. Re:How far along into death by 1000 cuts is Win10? by thegarbz · 2019-01-31 10:17 · Score: 1
  
  Windows 10 must be more than halfway through driving consumers onto a much faster student-oriented platform
  
  If you define the half way point as only just becoming the most popular OS currently used (exceeding Windows 7 last month) then sure, they are driving people "away". In 2 years Windows has gone from 25% to 40% market share.
  Incidentally Chrome OS is 0.32% down from 0.54% 2 years ago.
  Your superior OS is sitting at 2.7% down from a peak of 2.96% in 2017.
  And Mac's 10.6% while on a slow upwards trend is barely above the 10.1% it was a year ago when it suddenly reversed it's upwards trends and dipped down over a full percent.
  Consumers have voted with their wallet. They didn't care.
Easy explaniation by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:44 · Score: 0, Insightful

Can't post normal AGW this week. Hard to pass off global warming when 1/3 country is getting all time low temps.
Can't post political stuff now. After the DNC passing a horrid bill in NY, and bragging about one just as bad almost passed in VA they don't want talk of that.
Can't post immigration now. Texas found 100k illegals on voting roll, 58k of which have voted. PA found over 11k and governor is attempting to destroy list before it gets out.
Not sure why they can't post Elon Musk this week.
So they can't hit their normal high posting biased articles because of the dramatic backlash against their views they would likely get.
1. Re:Easy explaniation by HarrySquatter · 2019-01-31 09:46 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  Can't post normal AGW this week. Hard to pass off global warming when 1/3 country is getting all time low temps.
  The stupid. It burns.
2. Re:Easy explaniation by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:34 · Score: 0
  
  Can't post normal AGW this week. Hard to pass off global warming when 1/3 country is getting all time low temps.
  Maybe if you don't understand how averages and/or entropy work.
3. Re:Easy explaniation by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:54 · Score: 0
  
  Just remember, AZ gets a single high temp and ITS GLOBAL WARMING proof!!!!!1!1!1!
  1/3 of country gets record lows, its weather not climate.
  We are sick of your fucking willful ignorance.
4. Re:Easy explaniation by drinkypoo · 2019-01-31 12:40 · Score: 1
  
  Just remember, AZ gets a single high temp and ITS GLOBAL WARMING proof!!!!!1!1!1!
  1/3 of country gets record lows, its weather not climate.
  Now look at the rest of the world, which is currently warmer than usual. I know it's SOP for your kind to pretend there is no rest of the world, but it's still out there, and things are still happening there.
  
  We are sick of your fucking willful ignorance.
  Run along Ivan, we've had enough of your trolling propaganda today.
  
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5. Re:Easy explaniation by arglebargle_xiv · 2019-01-31 13:14 · Score: 2
  
  "We couldn't connect to the update service. We'll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn't work, make sure you're connected to the Internet"
  "Hi. This is a message from Microsoft. I'm sure at this point you're expecting something that will allow you to diagnose the problem, but we've dumbed it down to the point where it's beyond useless and has gone to insulting. But then, you're a Windows 10 user so you're probably used to being insulted by us anyway. Love, Satya."
6. Re:Easy explaniation by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 14:06 · Score: 0
  
  See.. "Rest of the world warmer than normal" Proof of global warming.
  Record cold in US, its weather not climate.
  We are sick of your fucking willful ignorance. You are a moron for posting the trick I called you out for while quoting me for calling you out for it. You not only fail at debate, but you failed so bad you made my point for me. idiot.
7. Re:Easy explaniation by drinkypoo · 2019-01-31 14:33 · Score: 2
  
  See.. "Rest of the world warmer than normal" Proof of global warming.
  Record cold in US, its weather not climate.
  Tovarisch, these things are happening at the same time. The globe is overall warmer right now even though it's cold in the USA, and the fact that the cold is in the USA right now is weather caused by the current condition of the climate. You don't even understand the argument well enough to troll convincingly.
  
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  "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
8. Re: Easy explaniation by subie · 2019-01-31 17:16 · Score: 1
  
  Funny you should mention that because I posted a very interesting article on climate change and the cold weather and it was promptly ignored. I thought it was a fair article for the most part using data straight from the ipcc but typical slashdot, it didn't go far enough to the left and I'm a blue dog. This site is so pathetic now. Oops can't say that it is might get modded down.
9. Re:Easy explaniation by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-01 00:13 · Score: 0
  
  And here we have the rare triple down of being called out for being an idiot.
  I don't think I've ever seen it happen on /. before. At this point I suspect drinkypoo is actually a Trump supporter that is pretending to be a moronic leftist to show how stupid the left is. I am having a difficult time believing people are actually this stupid.
  Please continue and tell me how this "polar vortex" and massive record lows are absolute proof of global warming. I think that is about the only way you could possibly sound dumber.
  Thanks for making my point for me again.
I hope by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 08:50 · Score: 1

They can still randomly restart their computers, even without the connection.
Finally, a feature, not a bug by SurenEnfiajyan · 2019-01-31 09:10 · Score: 1

Finally the users may enjoy a somewhat stable system.
Many windows 10 users suddenly convenienced.. by AbRASiON · 2019-01-31 09:16 · Score: 1

As their computers don't reboot in the middle of something they were doing.
1. Re:Many windows 10 users suddenly convenienced.. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 12:46 · Score: 0
  
  Those reboots are a service. Fixes 99% of problems and if you don't like it set the hours where it cant reboot.
2. Re:Many windows 10 users suddenly convenienced.. by Cederic · 2019-02-01 03:59 · Score: 1
  
  Forgive my ignorance then but how do I set it to not reboot without my direct instruction for the next 595680 hours?
#Debunking this troll GOP is slam dunk easy by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:45 · Score: 1

AGW is still a thing and is partly why the wind shift has drawn polar air into the northern latitudes, science models that perfectly, Trump is still a traitor caught in a bear trap of damning admissions, and Texas found major mistakes with that report on its voter rolls. Either way, there are ~6000 or so cases of voter fraud and a large majority has been Trump-favoring as caught and verified so far. Want links to all this, or does google still work?
You consider things "biased" only because you don't want to acknowledge they are real, your head is warm and cozy way up your ass but the scenery is always the same.
Re:creimer's phat booty makes me go HNNNNNNNG! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 09:45 · Score: 0

Too busy plunging toilets today, Chris?
If macos was not hardware locked and no nvidia by Joe_Dragon · 2019-01-31 10:15 · Score: 1

If macos was not hardware locked and trying to make it no nvidia on system with slots. Then MS will be dead.
Let me get this straight by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:20 · Score: 0

Last week, everyone was bitching about forced updates.
This week, everyone is bitching about not being able to update?
Make. Up. Your. Minds!
1. Re:Let me get this straight by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 12:27 · Score: 0
  
  The two complaints are not mutually exclusive.
Microsoft has had DNS troubles for 3 days now by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:26 · Score: 2, Interesting

This morning it was xboxlive, skype and skype for business impacted, with scatterings of Office 365 issues throughout the day.
Yesterday they were so fuxxored they could not update the Azure status page because even internal MS authentication didn't work, so they couldn't mark the services down. But Kronos SSO and Office 360 were hammered, at one point they were getting thousands of signon failures all over the country. Their customers, including us, were screaming bloody murder, and ADP was looking pretty stupid for directing customers to authenticate Kronos against Azure instead of local DCs (actually that still looks pretty stupid.)
I don't know why they aren't talking to non-customers yet... at first Microsoft was trying to blame everything on Level 3, but then they said they'd fixed that, and yet we have seen it multiple times today.
1. Re:Microsoft has had DNS troubles for 3 days now by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 12:29 · Score: 0
  
  Office 360
  I see what you did there.
Yep a couple days now by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 10:53 · Score: 1

I have Comcast broadband and figured out that Comcast's DNS servers were somehow looping back Windows update connection and Windows update would report a bad internet connection. Once I changed DNS servers to Open DNS everything worked. Some claim rebooting modem and router corrected the DNS issues. That did not work for me.
better yet hack the white list dlls and just walk by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-31 14:59 · Score: 0

better yet hack the white list dlls and just walk into the os anytime without anyone able to say shit even the antiviri jerk offs are into helping this
If only we had the technology by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-01 06:03 · Score: 0

If only there was some way to look at the network packets and see what was really going on....
You mean Brad Smith by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-04 01:36 · Score: 0

Brad Smith is the president of MS, not Nadella
May be anti-virus by IDtheTarget · 2019-02-05 05:53 · Score: 1

We're seeing this where I work. Turns out that my Barracuda Web Filter is blocking access to Windows Update, thinking that the Windows box is trying to download a Trojan. I'm not at work so I can't get the exact message.