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Meh. The cut-off date is just to instill a false sense of security. "Security" updates to Weven and Wait after that date will still make your machine more and more like winio.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I bet they will soon unite to bring back free upgrade! 
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Microsoft == Borg
So I'm prepping a computer remotely for my client, for a demo they want to do today. We had to reboot the machine (or it decided to reboot on its own, I wasn't watching.)
Anyways, Microsoft is stuck on installing update #5 of 244.
I feel assimilated.
Marc
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We knew it all along.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It's really not my imagination that infinite loops have increased by a very large factor since wins 8 & 10, despite the myriad tools that are in place to prevent them.
It's worse than the DOS days.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: infinite loops have increased by a very large factor
DOS - 16-bit
Windows 95/2K/XP - 32-bit
Windows 7/8/10 - 64-bit
Ignoring increases in clock speed, infinite loops today take at least 2^48 times longer! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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resistance is futile ... 
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I'd have said that resistance is becoming the only option.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"The Resistance Will Not Be Intimidated"
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Hey, if you start singing fernando[^], I'll have no option but to slap you!
Really, really, really hard!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If I'll ever start singing "Fernando" please, slap me really really really really hard.
I prefer SOS[^]. 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It's funny that I can get nostalgic about Abba, even though I hated their stuff at the time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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244 updates? Was this a new install?
No good ever comes out of letting the update backlog grow this size.
A few months ago MS release a "convenience update" for Windows 7, which basically amounted to Service Pack 2 in every way but name only. If that's the OS, perhaps it would've been worth going down that route instead.
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ftfy Marc Clifton wrote: Microsoft == Bong
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Probably too late for now; but MS has put out rollup updates for Win7/8.1 that will mash all the patches into a single lump and presumably avoid the multiple rounds of install dependencies for X, install X, install patches for X hell that comes with a fresh W7/8.1 install.
Simplifying updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 | Windows for IT Pros[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Does particle physics give you a hadron?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What are muon today?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oh, what does it matter?
/ravi
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You just haven't got any energy today, have you?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sadly, I can't a mass any.
/ravi
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You should relax and go out for a spin.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, I need to get up and atom.
/ravi
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Yes, it is a good time to come out of your shell.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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