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Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service (bleepingcomputer.com)
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.
Just did updates with my windows 10 machine yesterday
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
Hopefully they won't fix this, sounds like a god-send.
They win!
The windows update systems seems to choke at times.
See it with windows 2016 as well.
Sounds ideal to me!
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.
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.
The Windows telemetry on the other hand probably has no trouble connecting whatsoever.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Unfortunately, mine is still receiving updates.
Not a bug. This is a feature.
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".
They can still randomly restart their computers, even without the connection.
Finally the users may enjoy a somewhat stable system.
As their computers don't reboot in the middle of something they were doing.
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.
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.
If macos was not hardware locked and trying to make it no nvidia on system with slots. Then MS will be dead.
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.
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.
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"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."
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
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.