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Update 19-Aug-2024: Microsoft has now resolved this bug. See details below.
Five years ago, after a particularly embarrassing run of flawed Windows updates, Microsoft vowed to do better. Part of its cleanup program included the introduction of a “release health dashboard” that documents the status of known issues with every update.
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That transparency is a good thing, to be sure, but sometimes those disclosures raise more questions than they answer. A case in point is the July 2024 security update, which the release health dashboard flagged as having a known issue affecting PCs running Windows 10 and Windows 11 and multiple versions of Windows Server…