shut up company…you lie constantly and should never be trusted. you broke people’s hardware for greed.
One of many books that I’m working on behind the scenes is a programming book that is going to be for the free basic programming language, but is also intended to be a history of computing and a broader computer science course. One of the recurring jokes I intend to put into the computer history is “that would be the only time Microsoft did something sketchy”
Their very first action ever was to announce that they had an Altair compatible basic ready to go. And it turns out that even that was a complete lie. They only bothered actually making the basic interpreter once it became obvious there was demand based on the feedback from the magazine letter.
Let’s put it this way. Apparently the issue:
- affects SSDs and HDDs
- multiple SSD models from multiple vendors
- necessary conditions are 60%+ disk fullness and that specific security update
…I think it’s pretty safe to say Microsoft is bullshitting. No, not even lying - bullshitting, showing complete disregard for truth value.
You’re describing pretty much every used PC in existence. It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that there is no issue and that one guy’s SSD just failed like they do
Yeah according to another post in this very community, a third party ran tests and couldn’t replicate the issue.
and that one guy’s SSD just failed like they do
As mentioned in the article, “others have also encountered the same issue”.
It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that there is no issue
This assumption would not explain the surge of complains about it.
And my point is that Microsoft doesn’t fucking care. Regardless of if it’s its fault or not.
I’m not sure about that. There isn’t any evidence, that I know of, of a surge in complaints. Just a surge in reporting because one person blamed the update. storage fails all the time, so complaints are naturally constant.
Sorry for the double reply. Check this video, around 8:45 - someone managed to reproduce the issue, under different conditions, with the update in question. There’s also a second problematic update.
Here’s my hypothesis: from a quick websearch, a lot of people are getting error messages from this update (regardless of disk failure), it’s around 3GiB large, and classified as a security update. It’s possible that the system is trying to install it over and over and over, and this is unnecessarily stressing storage devices that would eventually fail anyway.
If my guess is correct there is a higher amount of complains, not just reports, but Microsoft won’t find the cause.
Of course, it’s just a guess - I don’t know if it’s correct.
It’s not our fault, it’s all of you guyses faults!
