Windows 11 update KB5074109 is breaking systems – Microsoft says uninstall it

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-urges-uninstalling-the-update-kb5074109-after-bug-reports-on-windows-11-heres-how

by game_the0ry • 6 months ago

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rolph• 6 months ago

i hope now MS can take it as a hint. mandatory updates, rollup updates, and FUDing users into installing, is not a sound strategy if you need a usable ecosystem.

game_the0ry• 6 months ago

Their position in the market is such that hey can massively screw consumers bc their enterprise business + revenue is so robust and sticky.

CWuestefeld• 6 months ago

I'm wondering why the guy at Microsoft in charge of Windows is still employed.

Over the weekend my installation of Playnite (a catalog/launcher for my games) was broken by the update, until I moved its data off of OneDrive[1]. And I just figured out that a couple of icons on my desktop have become completely inert and unresponsive due to the same bug - again due to an interaction between the Windows Shell and OneDrive. And this one I can't fix, I can't shift my desktop out of OneDrive.

MS's strategy at this point is that Windows is a loss leader to get people onto the subscriptions for Office and OneDrive. So when the Windows team releases bugs that break usage of those services, forcing people off them onto alternative solutions, the guy in charge of those updates really needs to be answering some tough questions.

[1] I've now got SyncThing handling this.

Windows 11 update KB5074109 is breaking systems – Microsoft says uninstall it

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