The OS Armageddon Is Coming

From all the recent online complaining, it seems the Windows 10 April 2018 Update has borked a lot of machines; many can't even boot, let alone access the OS's new whiz-bang features.

Microsoft does not yet force OS upgrades on its users, but it's getting closer. One of these days, Microsoft will probably send out a mass upgrade to millions of people and some last-minute foul-up or perhaps sabotage will result in the complete bricking of millions and millions of machines, a technology nightmare that might even become a national emergency.

It's inevitable, and I imagine most people will be unprepared. How many do you believe have actually made backup boot disks?

The idea behind universal auto updating is simple: Microsoft (as well as much of the community) would love a single OS build so drivers and DLLs can standardize on the latest and greatest.

This idea has yet to be achieved and the stalling phenomenon among users was particularly noticeable with Windows XP. Users refused to upgrade, including corporations that paid extra money for support of a dead OS. Much of the military gets stuck on a particular OS and feels that it is unsafe to randomly upgrade. As of 2015, Paris's Orly Airport was still running on Windows 3.1.

Microsoft employs numerous tricks and tactics to upgrade you even if you manage to find a way to disable auto updating. Unless you literally turn off your machine after every session, you will be trapped by some overnight query you cannot stop.

The message telling you that your PC needs to upgrade waits for a response that you are not able to give because it's 3 a.m. So it does the load and boot while you're sleep. You wake up to a rebooted machine that seems to have been up to something. After those updates always introduce annoying anomalies that create problems.

The updates themselves accumulate like crazy. When you go to the program loader to delete or uninstall something, you find all these upgrades piled high within the install/uninstall list.

If you got on board with Windows 10 at the outset, the pile of upgrade code makes you look like a maniacal archivist as the patches pile up.

Here is where Microsoft should just stop this farce and release a low-cost update DVD that contains an all-new unpatched OS for users who registered with the company. This is the way things used to be in the olden days (in a way). This would encourage registration, which Microsoft has troubles with too.

I am actually jealous of the new user with a new machine and the latest version of Windows 10, a clean version without a million patches.

Microsoft makes more than enough money to do this OS reboot, and I would welcome it. But the way things go, there would be an online automated patch the next week anyway. In the meantime, get yourself a backup boot disk and get ready for an epic fail. It is coming.

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