Don't install our buggy Windows 10 Creators Update, begs Microsoft
We'll give it to you when it's ready – and it is not
Aside: Ouch.
Microsoft has urged non-tech-savvy people – or anyone who just wants a stable computer – to not download and install this year's biggest revision to Windows by hand. And that's because it may well bork your machine.
It's been two weeks since Microsoft made its Creators Update available, and we were previously warned it will be a trickle-out rather than a massive rollout. Now, Redmond has urged users to stop manually fetching and installing the code, and instead wait for it to be automatically offered to your computer when it's ready.
The problem is that some systems – particularly older ones – may not be able to handle the Creators Update, Microsoft said. The US giant has been focusing on updating newer kit first, since it feels that hardware is less likely to run into difficulties, and has thus stopped offering the latest Windows 10 upgrade to computers it suspects may suffer from breakdowns.And here I was, thinking that the Creators Update rollout was going pretty well... at least, when compared to the Anniversary Update. I guess there are more issues than I knew about, though, which is an excellent example of why users want to be able to control whether or not their systems update at all, rather than just how soon they restart afterwards. Oh, and they'd like Microsoft to have properly tested and bug-fixed the fucking things before releasing them, too, rather than using their Home users as a glorified beta-testing pool.
This may be an especially bad time for the Creators Update to have rollout issues, too, since Microsoft was hoping that the CU would inspire Windows 7 holdouts to make the switch to 10. Well, it's been a few weeks since the CU came out, and the end-of-April market share numbers are only days away, so we'll know soon enough to what extent that happened, but this kind of headline can't be helpful.
As a final aside, I'd also like to say that I love The Reg's tag line: "Biting the hand that feeds IT." I don't know how long they've been using that, having just noticed it now, but it's genius. Seriously, don't ever change.