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xtabber:
Folk who flog software for a living should read this Ars Technica article about what’s wrong with how Microsoft develops and distributes Windows 10.

After a year using Windows 10, I much prefer it to Windows 7 generally, but find it remains too unreliable to replace Windows 7 on my primary working system. The problem is that with Windows 10, I can never be confident that something that worked one day will continue to do so the same way next day, even if I haven’t changed anything myself. 

One shouldn't use beta software in a production environment, but Windows 10 seems to be stuck in a permanent beta.

wraith808:
Since I've turned off updates (finally finding a real solution) and manage them myself, it's been great.  There are several things I like better on Windows 10, but am now glad that they aren't diluted by the terrible update policy.

Deozaan:
I can't think of anything that has been broken by Windows 10 updates on my machine. Sure, many of my customizations have been reverted to their defaults, requiring me to re-customize things. I'm not saying Windows 10 updates haven't been bad for people, because surely some people have had issues. But I've never had a bad update experience with Windows 10.

I actually had more trouble on my machine due to a faulty Windows 7 -> Windows 10 upgrade that broke various things throughout the OS. But once I did a clean install of Windows 10 (about a year ago) all my troubles went away.

4wd:
I can't think of anything that has been broken by Windows 10 updates on my machine.-Deozaan (October 21, 2018, 04:42 PM)
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I can, SAMBA v1 has been disabled by default after Windows 10 updates. 

Now I have to access my 4TB NAS, (no updates available), via FTP because re-enabling it didn't work on my computer.

Only reason I found out why it no longer worked was because DOpus opened a window telling me why along with a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base ... File Explorer just failed silently, (or spun its wheels), after a few minutes twiddling its thumbs ... nice.

Stoic Joker:
I can, SAMBA v1 has been disabled by default after Windows 10 updates.  Now I have to access my 4TB NAS, (no updates available), via FTP because re-enabling it didn't work on my computer.
-4wd (October 23, 2018, 06:42 PM)
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You mean SMBv1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support? We've run into issues with that on a few network devices, but never had a problem with reenabling it on Win10. It is however in two pieces for Client and Server connections under Turn Windows Features On and Off.

IIRC a reboot is required.

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