Windows 10 Could Automatically Uninstall Buggy Windows Updates (windowslatest.com)

Microsoft is reportedly working on a new functionality that will automatically remove botched updates from Windows 10 to fix startup issues and other bugs preventing the PC from booting. "The support document was quietly published a couple of hours ago and for some reasons, Microsoft has also blocked the search engines from crawling or indexing the page," reports Windows Latest. "In the document, Microsoft explains that Windows may automatically install updates in order to keep your device secure and smooth." From the report: Due to various reasons, including software and driver compatibility issues, Windows Updates are vulnerable to mistakes and hardware errors. In some cases, Windows Update may fail to install. After installing a recent update, if your PC experience startup failures and automatic recovery attempts are unsuccessful, Windows may try to resolve the failure by uninstalling recently installed updates. In this case, users may receive a notification with the following message: "We removed some recently installed updates to recover your device from a startup failure."

Microsoft says that Windows will also automatically block the problematic updates from installing automatically for the next 30 days. During these 30 days, Microsoft and its partners will investigate the failure and attempt to fix the issues. When the issues are fixed, Windows will again try to install the updates. Users still have the freedom to reinstall the updates. If you believe that the update should not be removed, you can manually reinstall the driver or quality updates which were uninstalled earlier.

Comments

Will it get so advanced...

[Anonymous Coward]

Will it get so advanced that it eventually just uninstalls Windows 10 altogether?

Ba dum DUM

I'll be here all week, folks..

FFS, Microsoft

[DigitAl56K]

You force updates on people seemingly non-stop, several of them cause huge problems, including data loss, and now you're building functionality to remove botched updates?

Here is a radical idea for you: Give us back control of when to apply updates.

Not defer them for a few days. Not select a slower update track. Put a damn setting that makes it our own responsibility to go click the update button again.

Re:FFS, Microsoft

[thegarbz]

Here is a radical idea for you: Give us back control of when to apply updates.

That doesn't address the root of multiple problems:
a) it results in perpetually unpatched systems becoming a health hazard to the rest of the internet.
b) people generally aren't upset at getting updates, they are upset at the reboot schedule and that those updates break things.

I don't want options from MS, I want actual quality so that I have no need for options.

Put a damn setting that makes it our own responsibility

People can't be trusted to be responsible. This has been clearly demonstrated with widespread harm caused by previously patched security bugs being none the less exploited.

Re:FFS, Microsoft

[DigitAl56K]

People can't be trusted to be responsible. This has been clearly demonstrated with widespread harm caused by previously patched security bugs being none the less exploited.

Microsoft can't be trusted to be responsible. This has been clearly demonstrated with tricky/forced migration from older OS versions, data loss, and dead PCs.

Re:FFS, Microsoft

[Obfuscant]

a) it results in perpetually unpatched systems becoming a health hazard to the rest of the internet.

I wish this meme would die. Not all unpatched systems are a health hazard to anyone, much less your little part of the world. They DO need to do productive work, and when they stop working it costs a lot of money to get working again.

I just had to waste an hour this morning driving to a site to reboot a computer because "windows detected a potential problem and shut the system down to prevent damage to the hardware." How nice. It's one of those systems that is behind a strong firewall and is not a "health hazard" to anyone.

I don't want options from MS, I want actual quality so that I have no need for options.

That's a stupid meme, too. People use computers for different things, and people run different software on them. The fact that your games run just fine and you have no devices more complicated than a keyboard doesn't mean that's what everyone else does. Some of us have stuff that breaks when MS decides to change how things work and force updates. We have PRODUCTION systems that need to keep running, and we get paid to verify that changes won't break things before we apply them -- and MS doesn't give a shit if one of my production systems stops working because they change something.

enh, maybe not

[roc97007]

Windows 10 (Windows in general, actually) has had a bad record on automatic installs. I don't think I want it automatically uninstalling anything.

I understand what they're trying to do, but as someone else said, the hot setup is not to push out buggy installs in the first place.

It'll work this time??

[Voyager529]

So, MS has had this since Windows 7...but every time it tried pulling out a failed update, it would either fail to remove (leaving the machine in an unbootable state), or pull it out, then reinstall it on the next reboot, then fail, then revert, and so on...also leaving a machine basically unusable.

This isn't what Windows 10 needs.

What Windows 10 needs is simple: security-only updates with a 10MB maximum per update, references to actual KB articles that explicitly state the exploit they mitigate, and a return to 'service packs', released annually. Want to call them 'feature updates'? fine. Support security updates on service packs N, N-1, and N-2, and allow users to permanently opt out of service packs and have manual installers available for those service packs, so users can do the major updates on their own terms.

Even the handful of people who actually care about the new features being added to Win10 are either in the Insider program (where they opt into this-might-break-stuff updates), or else they consider those new features secondary to existing functionality.

It's really that simple.