Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

[Eugene]

Source: TechCrunch

Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
Brian Heater / 3 hours ago

A few day after making the latest version of Windows 10 available to users, Microsoft has suspended the update, citing multiple reports of user data loss.

“We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating,” the company writes on its support site.

The company opened up the latest version of the desktop/laptop operating system as part of its big Surface event earlier this week. While it hasn’t officially started pushing the update, some users who’ve downloaded the OS refresh have begun reporting the deletion of documents, photos and other info on a variety of different forums.

The company appears to still be investigating precisely what’s going on here — and how widespread the issue is. Plans to begin pushing it to users early next week are likely delayed until the company gets to the root of the issue. Meantime, if you were planning to install the update, it’s probably best to just wait this one out.

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Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/

[lpbk2713]

1. Thanks for the heads up.

I passed it on to a few others.



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[customerserviceguy]

2. Microsoft

used to be this innovative company that was going to change the world. And, with Windows 95, it probably did. But, now, it seems that everything they touch goes to crap.

I have Windows 10 on a small laptop that barely gets used, and I hate it. Most all of my work (including this post) is done on an eleven year old Dell Inspiron that I upgraded from Vista to Win 7, just to get another couple of years of patch support. When it finally dies, I don't know what I'm going to replace it with.

[earthshine]

3. I downgraded my work machines from 10 to 8.1. I have never regreted it.

On non-critical machines running 10, I disabled updates.

Windows 10: " Spy first, run applications later."

[TygrBright]

4. Then perhaps they should re-think dropping support for Windows 7? n/t