'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Microsoft says a broken update left some Windows 10 users staring at an out-of-support message despite having an activated Extended Security Updates (ESU) license or a version of Windows 10 that is still officially supported. erroneous out of support message A user on a sysadmin forum was already commenting some weeks back …

[ITMA]

Hahahaha

And some wonder why there are those using Windows 10 who are glad to see the back of Microsoft "updates".

They can't even get the damned notifications about ESU to work properly, what the hell are the updates themselves going to be like?

[David Hicklin]

Re: Hahahaha

> And some wonder why there are those using Windows 10 who are glad to see the back of Microsoft "updates".

It appears to still be adding features however, the Clock,Edge, Photos, Feedback hub etc have all had updates in the last week , so we still don't seem to have escaped yet. probably explains the lengthy "updates being applied" session recently

M$ probably bloating up 10 until is becomes unusable probably

[ITMA]

Re: Hahahaha

They keep turning on Spotlight and their "interesting info" shite on the lock screen. Wankers.

[Dan 55]

Come on in, the Windows 11's fine

If you switch, you too can enjoy the new XAML Explorer which is like wading through treacle and multi keyboard layout support which somehow changes keyboard every 10 minutes and includes US English even if you delete it from everywhere in Settings and Control Panel. This is four years after release, did it actually boot when they released it in 2021?

[ITMA]

Re: Come on in, the Windows 11's fine

Sounds like a mis-quote from Jaws - "Come on in, the water is f.....AGGHHHGGHGHHGGHHAAAAGHAGA"

[Paul Herber]

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

[David 132]

Leela: "Shut up, Terry..."

[rockpile99]

Every day - another MS cockup. Is this what they mean by "Microsoft 365"?

[Paul Herber]

365? They don't make numbers like that any more!

[Dwarf]

Which number base ?

In case nobody noticed, 365 is an octal number ...

So, thats 245 decimal, which seems far more appropriate in terms of uptime.

[David Hicklin]

Re: Which number base ?

And you don't get any service on February 29th unless you pay extra

[Strahd Ivarius]

Re: Which number base ?

You mean "you don't get any disservice on Feb 29", so your computer is working fine that day (but only if the moon is full and it is a Friday)

[rjmx]

Re: Which number base ?

It's also a hexadecimal number, which gives you 869 reasons to call Microsoft useless.

[m4r35n357]

Fucking useless - they are clearly trying to wear out the "complainers". Well done to all their customers, particularly the UK govt., for consistently and reliably rewarding their incompetence for the last 35 years, despite all our childish comments!

I suppose that was due to "herd mentality" and _seemed_ to work for a long time.

Well, you have now arrived at the slaughterhouse - enjoy.

[chivo243]

Too close to Seattle

too much Dank before work guys... geesh.

Green icon, close enough... works for M$

[xanadu42]

Extended Security Updates (ESU)

Shouldn't that be "Extremely Suspect Updates (ESU)"?

[JWLong]

Microsoft

.....could fiuckup a wet dream!⁹

[Locomotion69]

Microsoft AI stands for...

... Microsoft Apocalypse Imminent.

[Blue Screen of Bleurgh]

Will there ever be a Patch Tuesday where there won't be any fails!

[Bebu sa Ware]

Ms Patch Tuesday

that would be Microsoft's thoroughly unpleasant wench more than capable of completely effing up a wet dream let alone your entire waking day.

I suppose that's then a dry nightmare.

[David 132]

Re: Ms Patch Tuesday

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

[Paul Herber]

Re: Ms Patch Tuesday

... also missed out an n from the middle of one word.

[David 132]

Re: Ms Patch Tuesday

LOL

[ecofeco]

Patch Tuesday is itself, a fail. It should not exist at all.

So no.

[chivo243]

I'm on the lookout for a PatchTuesday without any patches! If it ever happens. then I'll check if monkeys are flying, check the temperature of hell, and then if there are flying monkeys into hell, I'll put my head between my knees and kiss my ass goodbye...

[ecofeco]

Maybe they're not holding it right?

Oh wait, that was Apple.

M$ always gonna M$ and tech douche bros always gonna tech tech douche bro.

And M$ taint-licking stans can go play in traffic.

[steviebuk]

So that

is why the ESU machines we have are getting this shitty message. And there was me going to have to waste my time confirming the ESU key was actually applied.

Their testing is now no existent. Shadow of their former self since satnav took over and outsourced a large chunk of the support forums and more.

[hedgie]

Maybe it's the "devil I know" effect, but every time I read about stuff like this, forced updates, or a slew of patches breaking everything, I really don't understand why anyone who isn't forced to deal with it because of work even uses Windows. But Windows users are probably thinking the same thing, that it's better than dealing with something totally unfamiliar. They (or at least the support folks they call) know the procedures for dealing with the problem. I've certainly had to deal with a rolling Linux release where it became non-bootable or the GUI didn't work after an update,[1] but experienced enough to only find it irritating. I'm sure that M$ users who are fed up are also afraid of something like that happening on an OS they don't know at all, which keeps the actual rate of switchers down.

[1] The latter happened every few months when the Nvidia blob wasn't supported by a new kernel. At least with system snapshots enabled, rolling back only took a few minutes and a pair of reboots.

[steviebuk]

Problem is usability really. Linux is nice and all but not always easy to understand and use. Open source is great but they tend to have no customer facing, marketing skills. Take openJDK for example. That is an ARSE to navigate, this site is truly shit, especially for finding a downloading for Windows. Yes, a couple of clicks away maybe but really its not great. Yet I discovered the other day MS have made their build of it and its a simple MSI download, so of course, the folks that don't know will head for the Microsoft MSI release, its just easier.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Open source is great but they tend to have no customer facing, marketing skills. "

Marketing costs money and OSS is lacking cash. Very simple.

But, I have to admit, there are several proper despots and moles also (specifially this P-guy. Not Torvalds) embedded in and they tend to muck everything because they get paid to do so, either by Microsoft or by IBM.

[Anonymous Coward]

" I really don't understand why anyone who isn't forced to deal with it because of work even uses Windows. "

None of the games I play work in Linux (or Mac). Any other questions?

And >90% of home computer use is games. Omit them and I'll manage with just a phone.