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Windows 10 just wants to be helpful...

 

 

 

 

...Like System Shock 2 protocol droids!    



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vivster said:

Take THAT people who think Microsoft works with the NSA to spy on you!

I think this hate train on WIn 10 is getting funnier and funnier. Yes, most of the criticism is absolutely fair and correct but it's not like it's worse than any other OS or that anything will change through internet outrage. Eventually  Win 10 will become better and everyone will switch to it, so the more people hate on it the more they will look like a hypocrite when they change to it as well^^

There are plenty of well-documented issues with W10, many of which are there by Microsoft design.  People shouldn't call those into question?  I'll never understand or support that logic.  The day people don't complain about fucked up things is the day consumers get steamrolled.

As for people switching to W10 eventually, well, yeah.  Many applications won't work, or work well, with anything else.  That's why Windows is considered a monopoloy.  It's not hypocrisy if you have very little real-world choice.

As for the Anniversary Update, it's causing an entire host of problems.  The fact that people have no choice but to take the update anyway is well worth complaining about.



pokoko said:
vivster said:

Take THAT people who think Microsoft works with the NSA to spy on you!

I think this hate train on WIn 10 is getting funnier and funnier. Yes, most of the criticism is absolutely fair and correct but it's not like it's worse than any other OS or that anything will change through internet outrage. Eventually  Win 10 will become better and everyone will switch to it, so the more people hate on it the more they will look like a hypocrite when they change to it as well^^

There are plenty of well-documented issues with W10, many of which are there by Microsoft design.  People shouldn't call those into question?  I'll never understand or support that logic.  The day people don't complain about fucked up things is the day consumers get steamrolled.

As for people switching to W10 eventually, well, yeah.  Many applications won't work, or work well, with anything else.  That's why Windows is considered a monopoloy.  It's not hypocrisy if you have very little real-world choice.

As for the Anniversary Update, it's causing an entire host of problems.  The fact that people have no choice but to take the update anyway is well worth complaining about.

You need to read further to get my point apparently.

Also you have always a choice. Most choices come with less comfort but if you're ready to give up your convictions for comfort they can't really be that strong.



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pokoko said:
vivster said:

Take THAT people who think Microsoft works with the NSA to spy on you!

I think this hate train on WIn 10 is getting funnier and funnier. Yes, most of the criticism is absolutely fair and correct but it's not like it's worse than any other OS or that anything will change through internet outrage. Eventually  Win 10 will become better and everyone will switch to it, so the more people hate on it the more they will look like a hypocrite when they change to it as well^^

There are plenty of well-documented issues with W10, many of which are there by Microsoft design.  People shouldn't call those into question?  I'll never understand or support that logic.  The day people don't complain about fucked up things is the day consumers get steamrolled.

As for people switching to W10 eventually, well, yeah.  Many applications won't work, or work well, with anything else.  That's why Windows is considered a monopoloy.  It's not hypocrisy if you have very little real-world choice.

As for the Anniversary Update, it's causing an entire host of problems.  The fact that people have no choice but to take the update anyway is well worth complaining about.

Funny because that isn't even true.

Windows downloaded that update weeks ago on my laptop, but unless I accidentally press "Update and shut down" or "Update and restart" it's not gonna install itself.



Barozi said:
pokoko said:

There are plenty of well-documented issues with W10, many of which are there by Microsoft design.  People shouldn't call those into question?  I'll never understand or support that logic.  The day people don't complain about fucked up things is the day consumers get steamrolled.

As for people switching to W10 eventually, well, yeah.  Many applications won't work, or work well, with anything else.  That's why Windows is considered a monopoloy.  It's not hypocrisy if you have very little real-world choice.

As for the Anniversary Update, it's causing an entire host of problems.  The fact that people have no choice but to take the update anyway is well worth complaining about.

Funny because that isn't even true.

Windows downloaded that update weeks ago on my laptop, but unless I accidentally press "Update and shut down" or "Update and restart" it's not gonna install itself.

Funny that you don't remember that MS cheated on this, hiding Win 10 upgrade amongst critical updates and making for the first time an install confirmation pop-up that started the installation also if the user just closed it, without explicitly choosing it with a proper confirm button.

https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/laptops-2/has-windows-10-installed-itself-without-asking-you/




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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Barozi said:

Funny because that isn't even true.

Windows downloaded that update weeks ago on my laptop, but unless I accidentally press "Update and shut down" or "Update and restart" it's not gonna install itself.

Funny that you don't remember that MS cheated on this, hiding Win 10 upgrade amongst critical updates and making for the first time an install confirmation pop-up that started the installation also if the user just closed it, without explicitly choosing it with a proper confirm button.

https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/laptops-2/has-windows-10-installed-itself-without-asking-you/


I don't see the connection to the Anniversary Update. There is no install pop-up for updates.



Barozi said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Funny that you don't remember that MS cheated on this, hiding Win 10 upgrade amongst critical updates and making for the first time an install confirmation pop-up that started the installation also if the user just closed it, without explicitly choosing it with a proper confirm button.

https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/laptops-2/has-windows-10-installed-itself-without-asking-you/


I don't see the connection to the Anniversary Update. There is no install pop-up for updates.

The connection is that MS has a long record of unnecessarily mixing unwanted things with important updates, not making them clear enough to users when asking them whether accepting or not the updates and not offering the option of separately denying unwanted and even potentially harmful operations mixed, heavens know why, with useful ones in the same update, not to mention that it's definitely possible that most that accepted the Anniversary Update probably wished it bettered things that they didn't like or that weren't working good enough yet when MS did anything it could to persuade them to upgrade to Win 10.



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The NSA won't be happy about this.



barneystinson69 said:

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/76719/microsoft-broken-millions-webcams-windows-10-anniversary-update

 

Is this real? Did Microsoft even test their update before they released it, or did they just fire their product testers and hope for the best? Anyway this is causing a shit-storm over the Internet, and with a fix only being promised in September, I'm sure many are pissed indeed.

 

 

 

They break their own accessories compatibility so why not everyones?



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This sort of reminds me when Apple released an update that made it where I couldn't click on email url links. They will just have to patch it up. Things happen.