[dayglored]

Ever pass a kidney stone? One of those awful ones that takes forever, and is accompanied by pain, false-starts, grunting, groaning, weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth?

Win10-1809 has been like that... so we sure are glad THAT one has finally made its way out.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Fall 2018 (1809) Update Finally Passes Muster... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[dayglored]

Here's the official announcement from Microsoft:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Windows-10-version-1809-designated-for-broad-deployment/ba-p/389540

[Blood of Tyrants]

Got sick of Windows a few months ago and pulled out a 6 year old laptop with a crashed hd and replaced it iuth a 240 gb SS hd and loaded Linux Mint. It is 5 years older than my Windows laptop and runs 4 times faster.

[cgbg]

Your kidney stone analogy would work as long as the NSA got to listen in on every grunt, groan, weep and wail. :-(

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The releases of MS Windows and accompanying articles like this chronicling the disasters and pain are pathetic.

Apple releases major updates to their OS and they almost always go smoothly with none of these hiccups. They just install and run, no fuss, no muss.

[Openurmind]

Are we sure it’s over yet? Or is this update going to open a new whole can of worms?

[fireman15]

Yep, Microsoft screwed the pooch with that one. I believe that one of the primary goals of the “update” was to salvage the Edge browser. Yet despite the cheers from Linux and Apple bleachers Windows will continue to plug away and Microsoft will continue to maintain their market share. Many of us have a large investment in time and money in Windows based applications that have no good alternatives on other platforms. And if you visit a large retailer like Costco 80% or more of the laptops and desktops they sell still have Microsoft operating systems.

[free_life]

Under Settings...Windows Updates...Advanced Options, you can pause Windows updates for up to 35 days. I will let the lemmings beta test this mess and wait for the fix update when the poo hits the fan.

[SgtHooper]

I installed the Win 10 1809 a few hours ago. No matter that I run Intel x64 and the file was named amd x64. All good so far. :-) I also image the C: drive routinely. It’s the only way to be sure!

[topher]

MicroSoft = MicroStupid/MicroBroken in my book... Wait 5 to 10 years after a MicroBroken OS is released before using it. Then it might actually work...

[_Jim]

Still running Win XP SP3 here ... never installed an update, except that one ‘patch’ a couple years back on account of that one vulnerability ...

Authoring some S/W, images, videos, etc. as if it were the year 2006 ...