Microsoft fixes the thing it broke

[BootinUp]

Microsoft fixes the thing it broke via another dose of out-of-band patching to deal with BSOD printing problems
It's already a great week at Redmond
Richard Speed Tue 16 Mar 2021 // 12:37 UTC SHARE
Microsoft has taken the increasingly normal step of releasing an out-of-band update to deal with the printer issue it introduced last week.

"Microsoft identified an issue that affects Windows 10 devices which applied the March 2021 security update released March 9, 2021," explained the Windows giant, "and a resolution has been expedited."

Continue https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/16/microsoft_printer_fix/

[leftieNanner]

1. Hate Microsoft

Their "updates" can take down a computer.

[PoliticAverse]

2. They've gotten a bit agressive with the updates under Windows 10. n/t

[leftieNanner]

3. My husband had to replace his laptop

A Microsoft update took out the sound and the touch screen.

And you can't call Microsoft to talk to a tech rep without paying.

Wish Apple machines weren't so much more expensive.

[Lefta Dissenter]

4. My Dymo label printer

Suddenly printing blank labels. LAME. The Dymo website had a notice relating to the Windows update, otherwise, out of frustration, I might have been in the market for a new label printer.

[BootinUp]

5. Ditto. Jinx.

Yeah that wasted some time yesterday. I uninstalled the update and paused them as long as allowed I think 5 weeks. Dymo should have a new driver b4 that.

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. I didn't have time for that,

so had to resort to hand printing my labels. Too bad they look like a first-grader printed them.