Windows 10 version 1809 Bugs

Thanks John.

I look after the four computers and one shared printer at the Citizens Advice Bureau where I volunteer.  We recently got four new HP ProDesk systems with Windows 10, and a discounted Office 2016 volume license.    They'd been working fine for about two weeks when one went into a non recoverable startup loop with a error message that resolved to Windows Update.

So I fixed that, and was told  another had done the same thing.  While I was there fixing the second system, a third failed with the same thing!  I have them all with a recover image in case they fail again, but I still don't know why they are failing, so all I have done so far is pause Windows updates for the MAX (sorry Dave ) allowed 35 days.  I look forward to reading the PC World article to see if it helps.

I had no issues when Windows upgraded my workstation but on the other hand i never use the system drive for personal files and do daily backups.

For a couple of days ago i decided to do a clean install of 1809 and was so sure that i downloaded the 1809 build from Microsoft. I failed to see that the version i actually downloaded was 1803. Confirmation bias...?

So in the end got two surprises: The first being that i installed the wrong version, 1803, of Windows and the second one was that OneNote is now removed from Office 365/Office 2019. I could download OneNote 2016 separatly but i dont understand why Microsoft drops it and promts the end user to use the OneNote app in Win 10 when it cannot open local OneNote books. The desktop version of OneNote EOL. I still wonder why...

Win 10 1809 is still unaviable . Maybe the Spring 2018 update become Winter 2018 update?

I hope that this is not the future of software companys with subscriptions, that they just withdraw applications without much info about why the do it. I remember when several version of Premiere Pro/AME/Ae got withdrawn when CC 2018 were released.

the senario in which people lose their files is only about 1% but for Windows users that is still a lot of people

Microsoft did not miss it, they ignored it which imo is worse but that is not an uncommon attitude or one which only Microsoft applies to their busniess