Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Yet another
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the
Windows update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive
further security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update
to fix it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
introducing their own new bugs?

  This is a bit of a corner case, i.e. limited timeframe, uncommon
way to update and somewhat uncommon way to install.

  Also the article is messing up the terminology, so I would take it
with quite a lot of salt.

  FWIW, my updates went without any glitches. Knock on wood.

  And FTR, in 20+ years I've had only one case - on only one of two
systems - where Windows Update was somwhat messed up. Not broken, but
re-offering already installed updates, so I wanted to clean it up.