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An update wiped out your system drive? Sounds very unlikely. There are millions of Windows 10 PCs if something like that happened it would be major news.

by nec4b 7y ago

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
It literally happens all the damn time, and it does make the news. Microsoft has had to recall several update roll outs on Windows 10 because they can't seem to make them stop breaking shit.
wila 7y ago
It was major news [1], but afaik it "only" wiped all user data. Which quite frankly is just as bad. [1] https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-october-2018-update-seems-be-deleting-users-data https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-october-2018-updat...
- nec4b 7y ago
  That's terrible, I thought that Microsoft had a somewhat better QA program. Though to be fair that is not what i would call wiping out the system drive, because you are still able to boot into Windows and similar things do happen on other operating systems.
  - toast0 7y ago
    > I thought that Microsoft had a somewhat better QA program. They did. In 2014, they eliminated their extensive and effective separate testing positions as part of a large layoff/restructuring. Supposedly, testing was going to be consolidated in engineering, and not eliminated, but the proof is in the pudding: Windows releases since then have had big problems that feel like they should have been caught and fixed before release.
alpaca128 7y ago
It was news, 3 years ago. They also had problems of updates causing boot loops which one time affected some of their own Surface Pro line. Some Windows 10 updates were delayed for months because they crashed computers and destroyed installations. But it doesn't make the computer literally explode so nobody cares if some random users have to pay a repair shop to restore files and get it running again.

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An update wiped out your system drive? Sounds very unlikely. There are millions of Windows 10 PCs if something like that happened it would be major news.

by nec4b 7y ago

An update wiped out your system drive? Sounds very unlikely. There are millions of Windows 10 PCs if something like that happened it would be major news.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
It literally happens all the damn time, and it does make the news. Microsoft has had to recall several update roll outs on Windows 10 because they can't seem to make them stop breaking shit.
wila 7y ago
It was major news [1], but afaik it "only" wiped all user data. Which quite frankly is just as bad. [1] https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-october-2018-update-seems-be-deleting-users-data https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-october-2018-updat...
- nec4b 7y ago
  That's terrible, I thought that Microsoft had a somewhat better QA program. Though to be fair that is not what i would call wiping out the system drive, because you are still able to boot into Windows and similar things do happen on other operating systems.
  - toast0 7y ago
    > I thought that Microsoft had a somewhat better QA program. They did. In 2014, they eliminated their extensive and effective separate testing positions as part of a large layoff/restructuring. Supposedly, testing was going to be consolidated in engineering, and not eliminated, but the proof is in the pudding: Windows releases since then have had big problems that feel like they should have been caught and fixed before release.
alpaca128 7y ago
It was news, 3 years ago. They also had problems of updates causing boot loops which one time affected some of their own Surface Pro line. Some Windows 10 updates were delayed for months because they crashed computers and destroyed installations. But it doesn't make the computer literally explode so nobody cares if some random users have to pay a repair shop to restore files and get it running again.