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I use Windows 10 Pro computers in the IT and Construction industries.
On both Windows 10 1909 and now 2004 we are experiencing windows updates that cause the following to occur, almost drawing out businesses to a stop on almost a weekly if not daily basis where Windows updates, both Windows and Office, render the machine inoperable for far too long and break things far too often. It is like driving a car that breaks down every 0.5mile/km.
In the last few weeks we have experienced the following on many different PC's and laptops (manufacturers, video cards, lan cards etc) and many of the problems are across board;
1. We have a HP DesignJet 500 connected to LAN via TP-Link TL-PS110P print server with printer drivers either pointing to IP TCP/IP port (eg 192.168.1.200) or a network local port (eg \\fred\bloggs etc). All the other printers in the office work fine except this one and worked perfectly before the recent updates. It says ' The document could not be printed', leaves a job in the queue that cannot be deleted. Deleting queue and reinstalling drivers, different drivers, diffent queue name does not solve problem. The whole organisation cannot print to this devices where it worked before. Pathetic.
2. On starting Office apps (Word, Excel, Outlook 2013 and 2019 at least), Firefox 78.0.2, we regularly now open a document and it opens a white screen window and sometime and eventually it will show desired page content. This should not occur.
3. Windows update are now so frequent that they interfere with the normal operation of the computer far too much, even on newish machines. You should have means to halt all updates when you have important deadlines to meet. the hours of operation switches and delay options get reset/changed by Windows far too often. We need more control of the updates and do them when it is convenient to the user and not Microsoft.
3. The folder spacing in Outlook 2013 onwards is far too large such that it reduces productivity significantly. there are thousands if not millions of complaints about this from any business enterprises. We are supposed to be making progress. We are going backwards. Give us control of this very basic features that was not a problem in previous versions right back to 20003, at least.
4. You should be able to trust local and private LAN IP's for servers/devices etc without going to a massive technical procedure to allow them.
5. A major feature update, update takes many, many more times to install than installingin Windows from scratch, It takes hours if not days sometimes and is not acceptable when we do not have the means to control/postpone it fully.
6. Productivity in the World using Microsoft Windows 10 is get worse every week.
7. Most users in the World do not need all these fancy AI features and more glossy additions. We should have the means to either elect not to install them or be able to switch them off such that we can make our computer lean and responsive again.
8. I challenge any Microsoft decision making development engineer to get a typical Windows 7 computer (or even XP), and put a modern modest recent Windows 10 Pro computer up against each other and you will be astonished at how much more responsive and productive the Windows 7 computer is. You are choking us.
9. Major Windows Updates are not occurring far more frequently and the delays in their installation is also occuring at the same frequency. This is not accceptable. The updates are not inconspicuous enough in their installation especially when you have very important work to do.
Our businesses, worldwide are choking more and more and our productivity is suffering severely from poor software design and a reluctance on Microsoft to listen to many of their users. Windows 10 future is business not consumer, except for maybe games which perhaps should have its own independent version.
Please get us more productive, not less and also far less time consuming and debilitating updates.
Yours very disappointed
Paul Walker
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I use Windows 10 Pro computers in the IT and Construction industries.
On both Windows 10 1909 and now 2004 we are experiencing windows updates that cause the following to occur, almost drawing out businesses to a stop on almost a weekly if not daily basis where Windows updates, both Windows and Office, render the machine inoperable for far too long and break things far too often. It is like driving a car that breaks down every 0.5mile/km.
In the last few weeks we have experienced the following on many different PC's and laptops (manufacturers, video cards, lan cards etc) and many of the problems are across board;
1. We have a HP DesignJet 500 connected to LAN via TP-Link TL-PS110P print server with printer drivers either pointing to IP TCP/IP port (eg 192.168.1.200) or a network local port (eg \\fred\bloggs etc). All the other printers in the office work fine except this one and worked perfectly before the recent updates. It says ' The document could not be printed', leaves a job in the queue that cannot be deleted. Deleting queue and reinstalling drivers, different drivers, diffent queue name does not solve problem. The whole organisation cannot print to this devices where it worked before. Pathetic.
2. On starting Office apps (Word, Excel, Outlook 2013 and 2019 at least), Firefox 78.0.2, we regularly now open a document and it opens a white screen window and sometime and eventually it will show desired page content. This should not occur.
3. Windows update are now so frequent that they interfere with the normal operation of the computer far too much, even on newish machines. You should have means to halt all updates when you have important deadlines to meet. the hours of operation switches and delay options get reset/changed by Windows far too often. We need more control of the updates and do them when it is convenient to the user and not Microsoft.
3. The folder spacing in Outlook 2013 onwards is far too large such that it reduces productivity significantly. there are thousands if not millions of complaints about this from any business enterprises. We are supposed to be making progress. We are going backwards. Give us control of this very basic features that was not a problem in previous versions right back to 20003, at least.
4. You should be able to trust local and private LAN IP's for servers/devices etc without going to a massive technical procedure to allow them.
5. A major feature update, update takes many, many more times to install than installingin Windows from scratch, It takes hours if not days sometimes and is not acceptable when we do not have the means to control/postpone it fully.
6. Productivity in the World using Microsoft Windows 10 is get worse every week.
7. Most users in the World do not need all these fancy AI features and more glossy additions. We should have the means to either elect not to install them or be able to switch them off such that we can make our computer lean and responsive again.
8. I challenge any Microsoft decision making development engineer to get a typical Windows 7 computer (or even XP), and put a modern modest recent Windows 10 Pro computer up against each other and you will be astonished at how much more responsive and productive the Windows 7 computer is. You are choking us.
9. Major Windows Updates are not occurring far more frequently and the delays in their installation is also occuring at the same frequency. This is not accceptable. The updates are not inconspicuous enough in their installation especially when you have very important work to do.
Our businesses, worldwide are choking more and more and our productivity is suffering severely from poor software design and a reluctance on Microsoft to listen to many of their users. Windows 10 future is business not consumer, except for maybe games which perhaps should have its own independent version.
Please get us more productive, not less and also far less time consuming and debilitating updates.
Yours very disappointed
Paul Walker
Continue reading...