Well there's always a menu.

^^^ Typed from my mouse....

This post took 20 minutes..... :-)

I think this has more to do with the Windows Update framework than their ability to check things.
I forgive it this once as this is the first time they've rolled out an OS via a system designed for background patching.

That said I fully expect it to be fixed. The error is completely fatal. The update will just continue to attempt to install without re-downloading. From my history it looked like it attempted to install 4 times before I finally manually went through it yesterday.

If MS has any common sense at all they'll realise people won't fix this by themselves and release an update to Windows Update to correct this, it's a pretty epic fail on their part, but at least they didn't attempt to actually install corrupted files.

Knowing the industry the way it is it is just as likely that Samsung were the only ones who implemented the spec faithfully without some dodgy firmware workaround.

Sometimes the "broken" device is the only one actually working properly.

How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? None it's an electrical problem.
How many electrical engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? None we'll just work around it in software.

Has this ever been tested? I know there's somethings you can't give up your rights to, and in Australia I believe this is one of them. Anyone know about the USA?

Needs to be downloaded from the windows store as a Metro App. It's annoying as shit. The new minesweeper is more annoying than the metro menu.

It's already fixed. They sent out a corrupted install. It's not as big of a deal as you make it out to be. Open up your update history and if it says "Windows 10 Update Failed" with error code 80240020 then simply follow the instructions further up to delete the install files and run the update again.

It's not an end of the world scenario, and the downloaded ISO is actually the same as the Windows Update release. In fact there's instructions on Reddit for how to make an ISO from the files downloaded by Windows Update.

I like how you say "feature" as if you don't get something in exchange.

All of the data sent to MS is related to a certain function. Location relates to Cortana search results, sound is again Cortana's Siri wannabe interface, contact list so that the handwriting recognition can autocorrect your funny spelt friend's names. etc. etc.

But hey if you're really worried adjust each setting you don't like individually by clicking PC Settings > Privacy. Yep they went out of their way to hide that one. If only the old control panel were that easy to find (still haven't found it).

Personally I turned Cortana off and all related crap sent to MS, but only because I don't intend to use it.

As someone who was hit with this bug this step was wrong for me. The folder didn't contain anything. The correct folder to delete was:

"C:\$Windows.BT"

One of the subfolders in there "SafeOS" is protected and needs to have it's contents manually deleted. Also the folder is hidden. I think I read somewhere if the folder is 5.7GB or less then you have a corrupted install or incomplete download and the correct size is over 6GB.

Anyway the rest of the steps worked for me. Anyone needing more info should google "80240020"

They are and do, which is why the update fails during the silent "preparing your copy" step.

Harvesting data and not misusing the data are two different concepts.

Google have harvested more data on users than any other company in history, but I have far more faith that my data is in good hands with them than a company that is actively hostile towards users. One company is at the forefront of encryption and protecting the chanel between you and them, the other has released the single buggiest and most heavily exploited software in history.

How much more fine grained control could a user possibly handle? Clicking Settings > Privacy provides the user with 13!!! submenus which each have a variety of options under them, in some case controlling all the info sent to MS, in others providing per application control over hardware and the system account.

The only valid complaint I see about this is that it's confusing, but more options is definitely not the answer to confusion.

Simple ideas are obvious. The key problem is that certain fields attracts certain types of people, and certain types of people have certain traits.

The start menu would have been obvious and intuitive to anyone who has ever dealt with people and people interactions. Sign-makers, psychologists, and pretty much everyone in the medical profession who attempts to understand how people work would have found the start menu incredibly obvious.

Now the modern form over function UX crowd with their hipster indecipherable logos (3 dots for action, 3 lines for menu?) may be heading the wrong direction, but in a more general sense engineers have shown time and time again that on the whole we don't understand how people interact with things.

Media centre required expensive licenses to work and very few people used the software.

Windows updates are forced on home users to protect them from themselves. It's about bloody time.

They release buggy software because people are screaming for them to. No one likes Windows 8, everyone wants a replacement NOW.

You're stretching with the Yahoo thing. Are you feeling okay?

Why not report buggy software to the software vendor? If they were doing something non-standard then that's their fault.

Microsoft has a very diverse business that makes money from all over the self. They seem quite well managed given their size.

What's the Monkey Boy of some random person got to do with anything?

You do know Mr Ballmer is neither the CEO, director nor in the employ of Microsoft right?

DC and AC motors are fundamentally driven in different ways. You either need a really esoteric motor design which will come with it's own set of drawbacks, or you will need to provide conversion in the gear itself at which point why would you bother going to DC at all.