Microsoft confirms – and pulls – botched WPD driver

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Microsoft confirms that it pushed out a bad WPD driver patch. Pulls the patch, gives instructions for nullifying it. If you use Windows 10, watch out – it may come back.

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Like they need more bad publicity

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At least Creators Update will give Pro users some tools to control Microsoft’s over-exuberance. But why are they pushing driver patches?

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Was this driver automatically pushed, or only for those actively looking for updates in Device Manager by doing “scan for hardware changes”?
Optional drivers are pushed automatically only when there is no other compatible driver installed.
Important drivers (I don’t know how Recommended category is treated in Windows 10, but I suspected it has been merged with Critical non-security, like having the checkbox ticked in Windows 7) are pushed regardless, but they are rare.

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Whenever you connect a USB device and it’s recognized (sometime even not), you would get the drivers via Windows Update

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It’s not like those who upgraded to Windows 10 didn’t get enough warnings beforehand about the perils of forced updating (not to mention the loss of privacy but that’s another matter). It still amazes me that so many people were tempted into getting that particular shiny new toy just because it was “free” – but of course it wasn’t “free” as all things come at a price of one sort or another.

Thanks for the info on this Woody, fortunately I haven’t been offered any optional updates yet this month but I await next week’s Patch Tuesday with the usual trepidation.

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Interesting development. It sort of makes you wonder, are they putting in the deferred updates option in to the 1704 ver because its a tacit admission that anything that comes “down the M$ update shute” is not all “sweetness & light?” After all over the festive period we had the Intel driver debacle. When 1607 ver hit the streets we had a run of some calamitous updates, not made easier by the size, hopefully to be redressed soon, and downloads/install problems. I was just wondering does this constitute a “U” turn on M$’s policy of redressing the terribly patched systems that they used to convince us of the merits of the cummulative update model as a opposed to the pick and choose update model. Which for most of us, was out of necessity, to keep our systems running good and of course “sidestepping” the all too invasive “snooping” updates. As ever I am sure in M$’s corperate world they would be loathe to admit if this is anything like a “U”turn, prefferring to leave us reading between the lines.

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I think you can infer from the features in Win10 1703 Pro that Microsoft is saying, “Golly, maybe Pro users should be able to defer updates for a little while.”

They won’t do the same for Home users – which are, by definition, cannon fodder.

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UPDATE: Günter Born has published more details about Microsoft’s proposed solutions. Take particular note of the “Method 2 Part 2” discussion, which I mention briefly in the InfoWorld article.

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What with all the invasive snooping, we should be calling it Windows Tentacle.

Those of you who haven’t yet updated to Windows 10,

Take the Pledge:

I solemnly swear that neither I nor my immediate family nor any of my clients will update to Windows 10 until Microsoft allows me to manually select which updates and patches I want to install on my computer.

GaryK

GaryK

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HiFlyer

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The way that in Creators, MS is throwing a few more crumbs of WU comfort to those that don’t happen to be using Win10 Home, is patronizing and insulting to their customers’ intelligence. We have all paid for our machines, so as in Win7, should be entitled to choose when and which updates to install, and not be dictated to by MS. This, and the Intel incident, really ought to make MS sit up and think very carefully about where they are going with this strategy, before the ticking time-bomb that it is, breaks millions of machines, and sends the already floundering usage figures into free-fall.

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HiFlyer

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Microsoft seems to be taking every part of their work less and less seriously.

From where I sit, it looks like Microsoft is trying to migrate Windows from being the worlds business system to being the world’s playtoy system. They don’t WANT us to care about the system stability or the data we keep with it. If something goes wrong, we’re just supposed to throw it away and buy another device.

I can only presume it’s becoming too difficult for them to keep making a good, solid, serious OS.

-Noel

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Noel,

I couldn’t agree more with your conjecture.

They need the huge mass numbers RINGING in Wall st, etc(I can’t remember all of them) ears for the stock price which identifies why/who they are placating. However, some of their ‘Windows’ revenue is still coming from Enterprise, But wait there is more. If the vast majority are used to the computer playtoy, that can still do business work, what is an Enterprise to do??? Will the strategies and tactics work for the survival of Microsoft? Intel? Who knows, we will suffer and see in the end.

Noel and others, I would like to hear your opinion on the following:

I personally don’t believe any of the current OS’s for PC or Mainframes are anywhere near the end all, and be all that corporations want them to be. Even the founders of the Internet say it was never meant for what we are all trying to using it for, robust or security wise. When it took off, it was still in Beta.

It is my opinion that we should at least be on the second generation from what we had in the 90’s by now but what we have been doing is cobbling things together, one way or another to endeavor to hang on to what we have now. Powershell(as much as I like it and respect Jeffery Snover) is a real good example of trying to bail all the OS’s out of this malaise.

So why are we doing this? Time, Effort, and Dollars to build a true OS Utility for everyone, to the best of our ability today including a couple of years and to layer everything on to it by many. Since we are really still in the early days of understanding what can be done with computers and communication hardware and software, one can expect to do this again in what? 10, 20, at most 30 years……
Most CEO/COO/CFO’s would say, that is unconscionable! Most consumers today would say, how much whiplash can I endure?

So hear we are puddle along until somebody/society/government says enough is enough, we must move on! Do you see any of those Leaders around now? in the near future?

I rest the Case of MY OPINION……

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