Windows 10 Fall Creators Update version 1709 is Now Available

... and you know what that means ...

It means the forum will soon be filled with posts from the clueless and the helpless, with multiple exclamation marks, screaming about how terrible this update is, how it destroyed their computers, how it's time for a class action lawsuit ... etc. etc.

The install worked on the first try. It took one hour and forty five minutes. When the install was completed, checked and installed two updates:

Only issue I noticed at this time is the feature update damaged the shortcut to the Beats Audio Control panel.

This also happened with the last feature update.

Well played, Microsoft.

AFTER I clicked the Restart button to allow the updates to be installed, it shared the good news that "This may take a while. Multiple restarts will be required." 

One hour and at least 3 restarts later, my computer finally resurrected itself.

What a freaking excellent warning to give BEFORE the restart. 

I thought 40 minutes gave me plenty of margin of error before my conference call. Ha ha, guess the joke's on me. 

I've got a super fast, 6-month-old laptop, so I feel sorry for anyone on an older, slower machine.

Oh, and even more delightfully, it randomly changed which of my monitors is the main monitor, and put my icons on one monitor and the taskbar commands on the other.  So I get the joy of losing even more productivity to re-set up my workstation for my workflow.

Plus, as with every previous "customer" upgrade, Windows reset my defaults on power settings, which means after a few seconds (!!) of not jiggling the mouse, my computer goes to sleep. Yay, I get to once again go in to my registry and enable hidden sleep timers.

I just love the customer-centric updates, Microsoft. Keep up the good work.

...posts from the clueless and the helpless, with multiple exclamation marks, screaming about how terrible this update is...

BulldogXX, it sounds as though you feel that *customers* should not mind having their computer effectively turned into a paperweight for an unknown amount of time?

Or that *customers* should passively accept random error messages or 80 minute freezes with no communication on screen to explain what's happening, all the while we stare in panicked terror at the 'Do not shut down your computer' because the sleep timer is set to only a few minutes of inactivity so we must keep jiggling the mouse to avoid potential, mysterious desctruction?

Or that *customers* shouldn't be concerned with random errors requiring repeated attempts to install updates to the base operating system?

Or that *customers* shouldn't mind that the update resets all the settings to whatever MS decided is a default?  

As Microsoft reminds us in the update announcement, Windows is a service. For which we pay, and pay handsomely.  My complaint isn't with the functionality of the update, it's with the pain caused by the update process. Considering that Microsoft has been pushing updates to computers for over a decade, why do we still have the same pain points? I don't think it's customers who need to get a clue.