Oh, yeah.

Updates aren't all rolled out at once, the bandwidth spikes would be eye-watering, even for Microsoft, so they're staggered in some (probably vaguely sensible) way. So your computer was saying it was up to date because it was up to date - at least as far as the rollout was concerned.

Point #1, however, is a legit one.

Oh, 2018?

No idea. Look after your shit better.

I'd like the option for the user to put the OS into one of two modes:

1) Security updates only (a mandatory minimum)
2) Feature and security updates (user choice)

Starting with the upcoming Windows 10 May 2019 Update, users will be notified of a major update's availability, but will be able to put off its installation until the device they're using is close to no longer being supported in its current state.

Promising more transparency with its update practices, Microsoft has revealed that users will be able to pause critical updates for up to 35 days after that 'final' notification, although you will have to bite the bullet eventually.

My PC just received an update too...



I've only had this PC for a couple of weeks, so I guess that might be why it's behind on the major updates.

Not to be so utterly shit at their jobs that this ever nearly got close to making it out into the wild in the first place? How did it even get through the testing phases?

Oh OK then, yay for Microsoft! They're great! And their QA absolutely hasn't been flushed down the toilet since they sacked a load of internal QA staff and farmed it out to the 'community' to improve their bottom line.

This is the way it has always been.

Lol Mac updates in my experience fail constantly and break existing shit all the time. Macs just have no history of compatibility promises like Microsoft.

True.

"Your Mac is from 2008? Ewww, go and buy a new one, peasant!"

Xcode can't connect to your new iPad, update Xcode
Xcode can't update, update MacOS
MacOS update fucks everything

I think Hearthly's point is probably more "it fucking shouldn't be this way."

Unfortunately Microsoft are stuck really, they have so much legacy code and applications that they need to support that I think getting rid of all of the bodges etc. is just unrealistic.

The May update ironically does allow the ability to schedule/reject the content updates, I believe.

MS Paint survives too, which oddly makes the BBC News front page

I still haven't found a decent alternative to it yet for quickly opening up a selection of images, manually cropping them and then resizing, so I'm glad Paint will be around a little longer.

MS Paint survives too, which oddly makes the BBC News front page

I still haven't found a decent alternative to it yet for quickly opening up a selection of images, manually cropping them and then resizing, so I'm glad Paint will be around a little longer.

You could use it to open command prompt by saving a 3*2 square of pink or something then running the saved file as something else

It's okay, but it's way heavier and takes longer to load and shit. Paint was always good for just cropping stuff.

It's okay, but it's way heavier and takes longer to load and shit. Paint was always good for just cropping stuff.

I use the snipping tool which seems so much easier.

I use the snipping tool which seems so much easier.

I'm on version 1803 of Windows 10 and haven't had the free disk space to install 1809 until tonight. It took a couple of shots at it and failed both times (without any useful feedback as to why of course) and now it's literally just given up entirely. Windows Update says I'm totally up to date at 1803 and that's that. So, fuck knows what'll happen now?

You have 8 'things' running windows? Wow.