Windows Breaks Again: Windows 10 2004

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The latest major release of Windows 10, version 2004 (which is not in any way related to the year 2004) is now on every computer, but there’s no real visible change to anything in the UI. The only difference is the display of notifications when they arrive. The rest is just behind-the-scenes changes, such as security fixes.

But sometimes you wonder, why doesn’t Microsoft fix things before it becomes a problem later in the life of the release? Why don’t they get it right the first time? Well, it seems you may be saying the same thing if your computer just bluescreened after installing a Windows 10 2004 update.

Here’s the deal: version 2004 may cause some serious system errors to your machine, causing a BSOD to happen. There are two reasons for this: Your computer either has something wrong with it, or Microsoft “forgot to check some stuff”, and now they need to release a ton of smaller updates to fix the problem. The latter is most likely because of the popularity of the problem. I mean, these people just can’t all have problems with their computers. There has to be something that’s wrong on Microsoft’s end that hasn’t been realized and fixed yet.

Also, it seemed like an awfully short time before the update was available. We thought it was going to be available starting in mid-October or something, but here we are coming to the end of September, and already almost everybody has Windows 2004. It feels like Microsoft has rushed the whole process. That’s just calling for more and more smaller releases, so don’t expect the new version to be perfected anytime soon.

But it’s still possible that something could be wrong with your machine. One thing that you should do is copy the stop code from the bluescreen, and then look it up. You may find some useful results which will, possibly, guide you to tracking down the problem. Also, make sure you don’t have anything crazy plugged into your computer, and just make sure that you don’t have any malware on your system that could be preventing the update from installing correctly.

The main takeaway from this is that Microsoft should get things sorted out the first time. If that had happened, then benefits would be available on both sides: Customers would be able to enjoy Windows 10 2004 without interruption the first time, and Microsoft wouldn’t have to spend more time and work trying to diagnose the problem.