They need to do a “New Coke” withdrawal and send out the 7 patch for the 8 sufferers everywhere.
Our IT support group had to pull some Windows 7 patches from last week, as well.
I’ll just wait for Windoze 9 thank you very much since only the odd numbered MS OSes seem to work as intended.
Tee-shirt: I h8 on w8.
I skipped the update that did did that, it also hit se7en.
Just remember, Linux sucks. Apple fanboys suck.
MS days are numbered; they float on license fee’s in a now failed business model. It just has not caught up with them yet, kind of like Helicopter Ben and our awesome economy of today.
Unfortunately, smertfoan isn’t able to be fixed too easily..
Did did?
Really foan?
A major BSOD outbreak is the last thing Redmond needs with 8. Market perception and resistance is already a problem.
One of my sisters just bought our mom a new laptop with 8 on it. I hate it with a passion and I am supposed to help her learn how to use it when I can’t even figure out that crap.
My netbook has XP and the desktop has 7 so that is what I am used to using.
I’m glad she still prefers her Kindle that another sister bought her last year so I can learn how to use 8 enough that she can use the computer eventually.
Guess I better check tomorrow that she didn’t get this update if I can find where to look. lol
I had two of the troublesome updates installed. Thankfully nothing happened, but I’ve uninstalled to be safe.
My laptop was the victim of the restart loop, kept on happening over and over again, had to do system restore back to August 9th maybe 5 times, at least now I know what the heck happened..contacted Microsoft and they said it must be the laptop that Microsoft patches can’t cause this LOL
Microsoft is crumbling. They’ve apparently lost or destroyed their core competency. This is the umpteenth time they’ve had to pull a major patch that blue-screened Microsoft systems during the last 12 months.
Reading the article, I found this companion link:
Turns out my main application is now subject to this brand new bug on ALL MS IE browsers and there’s a specific hotfix for each DIFFERENT IE version on each DIFFERENT Microsoft OS, with separate versions for each of those in x86 and x64:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2991509
Oh, and you can apply the hoxfix only if one or more specific problematic updates have already been applied to the OS.
I have no idea how I could go about programmatically figuring all of that out and applying the right hoxfix on the many PCs my application runs on.
Microsoft is truly doomed when it reaches this point of complexity in trying to back-fix update problems of its own creation.
Time for a Windows 8.2 OS? The one thing that MS has is a very bad record with its “new and improved” operating systems. The hits were Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Pro; losers MS Vista, MS 8.0 and now 8.1. Before even considering a switch, wait until service pack 2 comes out.
I have Windows 8, at least once a day, I get a pop up, telling me that I can update to Windows 8.1.
My options are, “yes” and “remind me later”, they need a third option, “leave me the #@&^ alone”.
Ouch. That’s an unfortunate side effect of supporting such a wide range of hardware, though - it’s impossible to test every possibly configuration to be certain that everything works correctly in all cases.
“Not my fault! You can’t prosecute me!”
Product liability lawsuits should apply to billion dollar computer companies. Their errors DO cost consumers billions in lost time and data.
What was it on that other thread?
Windows does all the grunt work so users won’t have to? What do users do when an update has ruined their PC?
I wouldn’t know, since I use Linux now. :p
Those are a feature, dang it!
Haven't seen it yet on a Win8 box but I have seen it on Win7. It's widespread enough to call into question just how much testing was done on the patch. The occasional box with unsigned drivers and old apps, sure, I understand that. This many new boxes? Not so much.
This sort of thing happens but it's usually not without a severe impact on the offending company. A certain antivirus company I shall not name managed to push a patch one time that quarantined its own updater and nearly everyone else's as well, meaning you couldn't use the AV updater to remove the patch, and the other apps didn't update at all. The stuff had to be hand-corrected. If you have a couple hundred servers per analyst - we did - bad words tend to be said - we did.
A ‘Blue Screen’ or a reboot loop is an enhancement to Win 8x.
It’s hard to believe a company as large with virtually endless resources actually spent who knows how much time, money, and manpower to release such a colossal piece of shit! I wonder how many developers they had working on that thing, along with beta testing, and QC.
It’s so hard to believe that Windows 8x actually made it through that many layers of actual human beings and no one raised their hand and said: “Hey, this SUCKS?”. Kind of reminds me of the 0bamacare website....
Thanks for posting this, I did have one of the updates listed and removed it.