Microsoft re-releases the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

by Mark Tyson on 14 November 2018, 10:31

Tags: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Windows 10

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qadzlg

Add to My Vault: x

Microsoft has re-released the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Version 1809 was originally released and started to roll out on Tues, 2nd October. However it hit a sticky wicket pretty quickly and Microsoft decided to cease the OS software’s deployment. There were a few problems being reported with 1809 but the biggest was probably the user file ‘deletion’ bug. I’ve used inverted commas there because later Microsoft revealed that the user files weren’t usually deleted, just squirreled away somewhere, so were recoverable. That was a relief to many as file locations affected by the bug included the important personal Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders.

On 10th October, Microsoft reckoned it had fixed the known issues in Windows 10 October 2018 Update and decided to re-activate the process for its Windows Insider Community. It seems that enough peaceful water has now passed under that bridge so the firm has started to roll out the update more widely – to the Windows 10 using public in general.

A Windows support article published yesterday evening says that Windows 10 October Update (version 1809), Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server, version 1809 are now being rolled out to users. Microsoft recommends that you wait for the feature update to be offered to your device automatically.

Coinciding with the above, Microsoft published a blog post concerning the Windows 10 Quality approach for a complex ecosystem. Michael Fortin, Corporate Vice President, Windows, discussed the Windows as a Service history of Windows 10 and thought it was important, for transparency, to talk about the wobbly 1809 rollout (my words, not his).

Fortin started by talking about the sheer scale of the Windows 10 ecosystem with over 700 million active users – using all sorts of hardware, firmware, driver and software configurations. It was asserted that trends at scale are very encouraging, showing a steadily declining customer incident rate (see chart above). The blog post is well worth a read if you are into software development or deployment.



HEXUS Forums :: 13 Comments

Login with Forum Account

Don't have an account? Register today!
Made sure to back up all the files I care not to lose and updated. Seems fine so far.
Guess I'll put my gambling pants on and try update tonight
I'm not updating until they fix the inevitable problems.

Last time it borked my GPU drivers so the monitor was totally blank as soon as it got past the boot screen, borked my missus's laptop so it took 30+ minutes to get from log in screen to desktop and was then withdrawn once the damage was done.
Did they sort out the issue where pro licences were downgraded to home? I've been in Linux for the past week, but would hate to boot into Windows to do the update and have it do that.
I can finally do the reinstall I was planning to do… best get on with backing up everything that's important I suppose lol