Update: Now that it has been nearly one and a half years since the public release of Windows 10 I will say it is my opinion and from experience many bugs (including in the anniversary update) have been removed from or fixed in the operating system. At this time since using Windows 10 for nearly the same amount of time, I can finally recommend it to you. ______________________
So the other day I downloaded Microsoft’s newest update for Windows 10 dubbed the Anniversary update (version 1607). After about 90 minutes for the download and install all seemed going well. My computer restarted a couple times and then I saw it. A fresh desktop.
The mistake was when I turned off my computer. When I turned it back on the next day, I saw a black screen with a windows logo frozen on my screen. The computer appeared in operable. Figuring this was a fluke, I shut down the computer again and restarted it and after a slower than usual boot-up time, the desktop reappeared!
Later I restarted the computer and the same scenario complete with frozen window logo over black screen repeated itself. This time I did a disk check which reported no errors on my system. Instead of messing with a broken half working computer system I decided to revert back to my previous build of windows (build 1511)—a time when my system worked fine.
My question is, why does Microsoft allow an update to be released that isn’t reliable? I read online about how they released an update “fix” to fix the update freezing issue. The trouble is, the Anniversary update I downloaded supposedly included that latest “fix”!
Should you get the Anniversary update to Windows 10?
The short answer is no. In my opinion it’s simply not ready. Of course you could always try it and than do what I did and revert back to your previous version of Windows if it doesn’t work. But I wouldn’t recommend that in case something worse happens to your computer. And despite what Microsoft may say, the Anniversary update needs to be proven reliable before I will try it again. However, what I did see of the latest update to Windows 10 seemed promising, even as short lived as it may have been on my machine.
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