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RE: Try this.

If the upgrade failed due to a corrupted download in such a way that it could not be undone, that would be at most one step short of criminal negligence on Microsoft's part. I am not surprised that the failed update could be successfully recovered. Microsoft can be a PITA at times, but they are not that incompetent.

It should not be necessary to manually delete a partial update, either. The necessity for doing this shows some combination of poor design, poor implementations and poor testing on Microsoft's part. The necessity for M$'s suggested fix shows that they are not a first class operation. (As if they have ever been...)

I would have no problem if some systems don't update due to specific configurations, unusual drivers, etc... There are an astronomical number of possible configurations and no company could possibly afford to test them all, especially a company selling an open operating system that allows components (e.g. drivers) to come from many parties. However, if the description given is correct, the (supposed) problem is inability to download a bunch of data, verify that it was downloaded correctly and recover if it wasn't. Not exactly rocket science, and not fundamentally different from any other update done by Windows Update.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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