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Microsoft starts auto-update of Windows 10 1809 three months late

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Microsoft has finally restarted the automatic distribution of Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the problem-plagued upgrade pulled from release in October just days after its debut.
Microsoft this week restarted the automatic distribution of Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the problem-plagued upgrade that was pulled from release just days after its initial debut.
« We are now starting our phased rollout to users via Windows Update, initially offering the update to devices we believe will have the best update experience based on our next-generation machine-learning model, » Microsoft said in a refreshed support document .
That rollout was supposed to start three months ago.
Microsoft began offering the October 2018 Update, aka 1809 in its four-number yymm designation, on Oct. 2, but only to those who manually sought the feature upgrade (so-called « seekers ») who clicked on « Check for Updates » within the OS. Within days, however, it blocked that access after acknowledging that some users’ files had been irretrievably lost.
If that hadn’t happened, Microsoft would have probably begun pushing the upgrade to users later in October.

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