Microsoft begins to re-publish the Windows 10 October update after resolving the file deletion bug

Microsoft today releases its Windows 10 October 2018 update, after the company disconnected it due to data deletion issues over the weekend. The computer giant says there have been only a few cases of data loss, at a rate of one hundredth. "We have studied in detail all the reports of data loss, identified and solved all known issues of the update, and performed an internal validation," said John Cable, director of Microsoft, responsible for managing programs for Windows Servicing and Delivery.

Microsoft is now releasing the Windows 10 October 2018 update for Windows Insiders, before distributing it more widely to consumers. "We will carefully study the results, comments and diagnostic data of our insiders before taking further steps towards a new, broader publication," says Cable.

It seems that the bug that caused the deletion of the file was related to Windows 10 users who had activated the redirection of known folders to redirect folders such as the desktop, documents, images and screenshots to from the default location. Microsoft introduced code in its latest update to remove empty, duplicate folders, but it seems that they are not always empty. Microsoft has developed fixes to address various issues related to these folder moves. These fixes are now tested with Windows Insiders.

About Windows Insiders, the Microsoft test community reported some of these issues before this publication was released. Microsoft seems to take note of this because the company is making changes to the tracking tool for Windows 10 to ensure that testers can report the severity of the bug reports. "We have added a possibility for users to also provide an indication of the impact and severity when filing user-initiated comments," explains Cable. "We hope this will allow us to better monitor the most impacting issues, even when the volume of feedback is low."

Microsoft will now monitor comments related to this republished version of the Windows 10 October 2018 update and will officially launch it to consumers as soon as the company is convinced that "there is no more impact For Windows 10 users. "We are committed to learning from this experience and to improving our processes and notification systems to ensure our customers have a positive experience with our update process," Cable said. .