It seems like every windows update for the last few months is broken.

imbrock · April 25, 2019

https://threatpost.com/microsofts-latest-patch-hoses-some-antivirus-software/143978/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/02/02/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-problem-price-cost/#1104566213d7

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2019/03/11/microsoft-monday-windows-10-upgrade-warning-issued-free-ai-business-school-new-skype-for-web/#1a082e030670

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1048770/Microsoft-Windows-10-update-warning-seek-bar-media-player-not-working

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/microsoft-explains-why-windows-10s-october-2018-update-was-deleting-peoples-files/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/04/17/microsoft-windows-10-problem-update-warning-upgrade-cost/#5b5f66607d27

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-may-2019-update-hits-worrying-stumbling-block-with-usb-drives

Its gotten to the point where I've put all updates (on home and work pcs) on a two month delay to avoid the constant issues. Its pretty bad, todays thing with the USB drives is also kind of confusing. The update isn't even out yet, bring it back and fix it before putting it out.

GoodBytes · April 25, 2019

8 hours ago, imbrock said:

Its gotten to the point where I've put all updates (on home and work pcs) on a two month delay to avoid the constant issues. Its pretty bad, todays thing with the USB drives is also kind of confusing. The update isn't even out yet, bring it back and fix it before putting it out.

It was always like this. Even back in Windows XP days. The only difference is that Microsoft used to shutup about it, and the media didn't care in reporting it. The company is more transparent. The issue is that when security issues are fix, some programs may stop working correctly or have perforance issues. They are billions of programs, it is bound to have issues with some. And in most cases, in general, they are speciaty software affecting a small group of people... and even then, with the deployments of update block, you reduce the affected people even to even less.

Could Microsoft do better, absolutly. No question about that. But nothing will ever be bug free, no matter the company.

In Microsoft case, they have been doing changes to try and improve this. Time will tell if they are improvemenst, results takes time.

As for the May 2019 feature update. The update is not released yet. This only concenrs Insiders (beta testers), and the people who are registered to MSDN, and willing to manually get the ISO and upgrade to this update. (the target is for companies who develop softwrae, given them a chance to test the latest release candidate their application, and report to MS of any issues). And if Microsoft doesn't have time to fix it before it is released, then no issue, an upgrade block will be placed (already is, even before the article), and voila, the affected people won't get the update until the fix arrives.