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Old December 7th 17, 05:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Tim[_10_]
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Default update/upgrade issues with migrated systems

Jason wrote in
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 08:52:47 -0500 "Wolf K"
wrote in article

On 2017-12-04 22:06, Jason wrote:\[...]
After a lot of time with support, they could not tell me
why the upgrade failed. That's inexcusable.

[...]

Yes, Virginia, there are questions with no practical answers. That's
the way the world works.


I just wish that MS could have at least told me if the failure was
something software-related or a hardware incompatibility; the machine
is rather old.

Have you seen that picture of a young lady standing beside a pile of
program listings as tall as she is? She supposedly did most of the
programming for the early NASA flights. She had a limited number of
machines to test for, and knowledge of most if not all the programs, and I
will bet she still had problems tracking down bugs.

Now take the current version of Windows 10, IOS, MacOS, Android, whatever;
figure out that there will be an almost infinite number of permutations of
software installed from in this case Microsoft for Windows 10, and a bunch
of third party software whose programmers aren't known for always following
the rules, and tell me any normal sized team of support personnel will be
able to figure out which of the hundreds of reasons a system threw a
particular error code, if any at all, and how to fix it if they do figure
it out.
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