• Windows Update is wonky this morning

    Posted on October 11, 2016 at 10:25 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    “wonky” being a technical term.

    Canadian Tech just posted a detailed description of his experiences this morning on the Microsoft Answers thread about the patchocalypse.

    I responded with this:

    I, too, installed Office on two VMs this morning. Office 2013 Pro on one, 2016 on the other.

    This morning, I had no updates for either one. So I just left the machines idling with Windows Update set to Never.

    At this point – 8:20 am Pacific time, two hours later – I have a bunch of Office 2013 updates waiting, but no Office 2016 updates.

    Don’t be too surprised if Windows Update gets the jitters while Microsoft is reloading for the patchocalypse. Just follow Canadian Tech’s advice from the post:

    Stay away from Windows Update today and for the foreseeable future until we find out what is going on.  We need a viable strategy that keeps our Windows 7 systems running as Windows 7, reliably and predictably.  If we want Windows 10 and the loss of privacy that brings, we will buy systems like that.  Meantime, we intend to keep our Windows 7 systems, which we invested our own hard-earned money in, running to our satisfaction.

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