Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• db2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like they break Microsoft’s update mechanism somehow, and Microsoft won’t work around it. If it’s because they’d have to make special cases just for one app I get it, but it doesn’t seem like that’s what’s happening.

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  • Rustmilian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they break Microsoft’s update mechanism somehow

    Microsoft’s update mechanism breaks Microsoft’s update mechanism.

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    • jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But really, there’s Microsoft apps in that list.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Microsoft’s update mechanism is just fucking awful trash, they should replace it with downloading an archive and unpacking it.

      They seem to think they are very smart with all those binary deltas, but it appears to be so complex that nobody inside that company understands it fully, and that’s for more than 10 years.

      Apparently people responsible for creating it still work there in important places, can’t find another explanation.

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      • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They probably failed upwards

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    • Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There were so many times that updating Win7 was a nightmare. I used to do plenty of fresh installs on various PCs and I would have to wait a day or sometimes more to get the OS up to date. I would have thought we moved past this by now.

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      • Rustmilian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Definitely not. Sometimes you even have to install additional bloatware like “HP update assistant” because the built-in update system is dysfunctional af.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hmm… I’ll have to look for these applications. Some of them seem ubiquitous.

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  • superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Large companies do not shy away from making workaround for specific apps. Every large platform that I know of has some form of app specific workarounds to fix problems with popular apps. Graphics drivers, browsers, iOS, Android. I haven’t heard any stories about windows but given their commitment to backwards compatibility, they must have

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