Windows 10 updates back on track

WIN 10 updates are unfortunately still NOT on track, they have yet again managed to cause significant problems

Well, it would be nice to see the reality of this being demonstrated, but my experience this week flies in the face of that statement, and I have been lucky not to have a much bigger problem, as they still seem not to have got it right.

I have a new Lenovo Laptop here, which received a critical BIOS update a couple of days ago, and after that, everything seemed to be working, albeit that using a PIN to log in to Windows didn't work after the upgrade, it has to be set up again to allow a PIN to be used to log in. Later, while I was out, Windows decided that it would start downloading version 1809, the machine was running 1803.

Once it had downloaded, it started installing, which didn't greatly please me, in that I would have been happier to have been able to carry out a backup before it made fundamental changes to my setup and configuration.

On completion, it needed a reboot, and that's when the fun started, after everything was up and running again, it wasn't up and running, in that it was impossible to log in to Windows, as the PIN/Password window would not accept input, so logging in could not be done. The mouse worked, and I could select Icons, but it wasn't possible to type anything in.

Tried all the usual options, like a power down, a full power off, a reboot etc, but nothing. Then tried forcing it into Safe mode, which it went into, and there was enough keyboard to navigate the boxes, but nothing to help other than to take the option to unwind the update, which I eventually did, and after that, I could log in again, and everything seemed to be OK.

Went online after I'd checked a few things, and allowed Microsoft online support to disable Updates, so it won't brick again, but it also won't install any other patches that may be required for things like Defender, or drivers, and I'm not sure how I will find out if this issue has been fixed or not, right now, I don't know if this is (another) Microsoft mess, or if it's a mixture of a Microsoft issue combined with a BIOS issue, and at the moment, Lenovo have not responded to my support request, but I am aware that a huge number of machines were being recommended to update their BIOS, so this update was clearly significant, but there's no details on line about exactly what was patched, or why.

So, while I have a working machine for now, it's far from fixed, in that I can't get any updates or patches until we undo the changes that were made to prevent it bricking itself again.

So, yet again, Microsoft are in trouble with me, I'm not a sharp end user as such any more, but it seems that even regular users are being screwed by Microsoft with the way that they are (mis)managing the updates to users systems. That does not impress me one little tiny bit, their neglect of basic security concepts, like allowing users to back up critical data before performing an update seems to have been abandoned, probably because they assume (wrongly) that users will use Cloud backup to protect their data.

I'm not sure if that attitude can be best described as ignorant or arrogant, either way, putting user critical data at risk is not something that they should be doing, even more so with an update that's been seen to be fundamentally flawed.