Yep, I’m a Microsoft bad software enabler

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I just about came unglued. See J Peterson’s note at http://www.infoworld.com/article/3094843/microsoft-windows/installation-problems-snag-win10-update
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You can’t help it. Windows is an addiction.

Signed,

Recovering Windows addict

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Mr. Peterson, I think, is just looking for excuses to yell at someone. Though of all the people he picked on Microsoft’s “Public Enemy #1”!

Fortran, C++, R, Python, Java, Matlab, HTML, CSS, etc.... coding is fun!
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Learned many, many years ago to try to ignore stupid comments, although it is very hard at times.

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time

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Someone on the Internet is angry… cancel all my calls.

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Where’s Gertie with her gun?

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cyberSAR has it CORRECT ! ! ! I’m in the same boat. Got tired of trying to please everyone and ended up pleasing nobody, INCLUDING myself.

Dave

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So its Windows critics’ (like Woody) fault for why M$ has been lousy with their updates and software? /smh (shaking my head)

It’s like blaming movie critics for why a director like M. Night Shyamalan continues to make bad movies.

The critics aren’t to blame. It’s the creators fault for continuing to produce poor quality products.

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Are you sure he didn’t get you mixed up with Ed Bott? Woody as a Microsoft defending fanboy is about as plausible as Roger Goodell as Tom Brady’s biggest fan.

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i like trains ._.

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Come clean Woody, just how much are MS paying you?

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yeah…someone lashed out. Guilty of that myself many times this last year, I must shamefully admit. You know, it’s easy to hammer rage on them keys. Still I blame Redmond. Remember when you used to get fits of rage when the darn thing didn’t work? Now being a complete Windows snit when the mothership tried to “upgrade” your OS THAT was something none of us knew how to handle. I just want this Windows 10 battle to be over, I feel like a tired war veteran by now. Dodged all the nasty updates etc, wasted 18 months of my already uneventful life..but hey, did I win? Dunno. Still a proud member of the resistance. 3 of my 5 computers run Solus now, the remaining 2 will follow next week when 1.2.1 is released, then I can finally call this nasty Redmond divorce quits.

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Don’t know about Gertie, but don’t forget Granny Clampett.

J Peterson clearly hasn’t been around long. Those comments were unwarranted, but great that you posted. Seems similar to the treatment you received on one of the 7 forums.

JP shouldn’t be blaming others (many, by extension) for his/her lack of understanding the OS and how installs and downloads work. It’s about being around the block a few times and he/she has not.

Take that “laissez faire” comment and stuff it, JP. That was rude.

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I went to the link you gave…… there are no comments there…….. has it been removed ? I was
about to say something to Mr Petersen……. that
perhaps he needed new glasses as he doesn’t seem to be reading the article ……. or perhaps even understanding it in it’s entirety…. Or may be
its a comment that he posts regularly on other sites as well. As some have said “A lot of anger out there” LT

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Interesting. I still see it.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3094843/microsoft-windows/installation-problems-snag-win10-update-kb-3172985-build-10586494.html

Oh well. Better things to do while on a very short “vacation.”

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Granny Clampett! Ah, yes, that would’ve been perfect!

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HA! Ha, ha, ha!

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I downloaded the windows update client for windows 7 from the microsoft site and it seems to be okay for now

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Do you write the headlines too? This had very negative headlines on a mostly positive article. I think these contradictions contribute to controversial comments.

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I’d say it is somewhere around 60 minutes per hour

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No, I don’t write the headlines.

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I thought the guy was joking for a little bit, but then, oops. Serious. SERIOUSLY?

Well to be honest, yes, you do enable. You enable us to deal with the hot mess that is spewing out of Redmond.

A lot of my software that I use for work only comes in Apple or Win versions. Some of us have no choice but to live with the WinMess. Have you seen the price of Apples that are as powerful as PCs?

So keep on enabling, Woody. It helps more than you probably know.

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Some people are always pleased, some are never. remains evidence, objective evidence.

Evidence concerning Microsoft (and several others leading companies) is that of their practices, legally on the border-line and in a no-man’s land in terms of legitimacy.

Microsoft has gone too far, period. And I believe history will consider the Windows 10 gate as one of the explanations of the company’s decline, because as it goes now Microsoft is on a road to hell.

Do we need to recall what is a near past and remains unacceptable in present times, a company’s policy totally irrespective of its users in its amazing decision to push all Windows 7/8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10 by all means, in its apparently total lack of decision to handle the Windows Update problem, that very problem which started with Windows 10?

Some may love to hate Microsoft, this is a known mass reaction, always excessive, but many are simply revolted, which is not the same as hatred because revolt has a rational background when hatred is emotional and can be active irrationally.

No hatred here, only fed up.

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Woody,

There’s an ancient Chinese Proverb.

“Those who know, do not talk.
Those who talk, do not know.”

I think all of us who read you regularly know better; and I think that the opinion of those people count a lot more than someone whose frustration with Microsoft and lack of knowledge about who you are combined into a bad vent.

We all know about how much Microsoft is listening to the admin and the writing community these days anyway -so despite their deliberate deafness, I appreciate you continuing to call them on the carpet when it is sorely needed. Keep the faith, my friend.

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+1
JF

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There’s a modern maxim which states that we laugh at ancient Chinese proverbs except when they fit to illustrate our thoughts when our thoughts have but them to argument.

Those who read and participate regularly to a blog remain diversified in their opinions unless the site’s administrator is a guru with his fleet of followers, which Andy is not. Consequently, unless to assert that there are good and bad readers, taking the words of those who comply to our beliefs is nonsense, to put it mildly.

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I think if you check, Lao-Tzu beat me to it. It’s in the Tao Te Ching, the foundation work of Taoism.

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