Windows Live Mail 2012 patch 3093594 freezes Win10, other problems

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Microsoft’s email announcement looks like malware. Whoever did this should be publicly flogged – and I’m being charitable. Must be the holidays. InfoW
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I honestly thought it was spam because I do not use Live Mail. So I immediately deleted it. Oh Well

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Woody
I am one of the people that got this Email from Microsoft and thought it was a way for someone to get a virus into my computer by clicking on a link.
I refuse to be forced into a update to Windows 10 from what I have now which is Windows 7 that works fine for me.
I don’t trust Microsoft enough to click on this link to update my hotmail account. I figuire this is a way for Microsoft to sneek a Windows 10 update into my laptop.
I guess its time to drop everything Microsoft except Windows 7. I hope others will do this as well and then Microsoft will stop trying to force us into things we don’t want.

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I’ll have an article in InfoWorld on this very topic, in the morning.

Microsoft’s GWX pushiness has gone from comical to coercive, and most Windows customers aren’t going to like it one little bit.

Even though I use Win10 all day, every day, and have for a year — and I actually LIKE Windows 10 — this is a p*** poor way to treat customers.

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And I was considering “upgrading” to Windows Live Mail. Currently I am using Outlook 2003–how ancient is that? Live Mail is out of the question now. Outlook does what I need it to do.

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With Windows 10 Build 1511 I have suffered the crisis of the lethal Outlook 2010 patch, which could not be avoided before the 12th hour removal — but was easily fixed for those who know where to seek troubleshooting information; a documented but unacknowledged bug that triples login time if ‘Auto-hide’ is selected in Taskbar properties; and now the debacle with Windows Live Mail 2012.

If Windows were a medicine and Microsoft a pharma, the FDA would withdraw Windows from the market for killing too many patients, er … customers — and Microsoft would be under Federal Investigation.

Granted this might not be a good result in the real world, but can / will Microsoft learn how not to hurt us …?

Normal users don’t read your invaluable blog and can’t cope with the intermittant, automated destruction of the their Windows systems!

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I really do believe that Micro$oft is now actually incapable of either learning, using common sense, or caring about customers. The only thing it might understand is if the bulk of the software-using world ‘votes with its feet’ and abandons all but Win7. And the board of M$ should be publicly flogged (or is that going a bit too far?). Perhaps it is time for an AskWoody.com equivalent for an MS equivalent o/s (Linux? Chrome o/s? etc?).

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I must confess I am still using WLM 2011 on my Windows 7 machines. I only use it for my ISP email accounts. I suppose I should upgrade to WLM 2012 in which case I would appear not to need the patch as I wouldn’t be using that email client for the affected email accounts. I’d consider switching to Thunderbird but I read somewhere that it isn’t going to be supported for much longer. Anyone got any ideas on the best course of action please?

Meanwhile it seems that MS are intent on making life as uncomfortable as possible for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 users. I’ve already got to upgrade from IE 9 (which I barely use) to IE 11.

What next, I wonder. Apart, that is, from the twin-option pop-up offering Windows 10 installation “Install now” or “download now and install later” which is already being reported.

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Geez you scared me, I thought you were talking about mail.live.com

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The email that MS sent stated that the changes were going to be made in a few weeks. In order to continue to receive emails I had to install the patch. I did not install it as I was hoping, but not believing, that MS would fix the problems it is causing. Seems they jumped the gun on making the changes because yesterday I could get my Outlook emails in WLM 2012 and today I can not – they will not send/receive.

So was the patch was a ruse, a mistake, a joke, a lie, a deliberate attempt to push a paid desktop email product over a free one ?

To add salt to the wound, MS sent another email to em today inviting me to download the latest Outlook.

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All of the above.

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I am using Live Mail 2012 and Win 7 but have not seen an update to Live Mail 2012. Why does this update appear in Win 10 but not Win 7?

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It’s possible that you don’t have a @hotmail, @live, @msn, etc., account. Those are the only ones that will get clobbered.

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