Windows 10 News: Microsoft Pulls Out Windows 10 Update After Privacy Glitch
Despite being called as the most widely installed Windows version yet, Windows 10 encountered a major setback after Microsoft pulled out the latest update of the operating system. According to reports, a privacy glitch was discovered from its November update, which led the giant tech company to pull out the OS.
The security bug, which was found on the Nov. 12 update, has impacted several Windows 10 users that have installed the said update. A spokesperson from Microsoft told Computer World that they have already restored the Windows 10 update and should not impact any update installations in the future.
According to the website, the bug that was found affected the privacy section of Windows 10. "One that lets the user's advertiser ID to be tracked across multiple apps, another that enables an anti-phishing filter for apps that display Web content — and a second pair that synchronized devices and allowed various first-party apps to run in the background to, for instance, provide notifications," the article reads.
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Windows 10 was rolled out at the end of July this year, and is now used by a large percentage of Windows Operating System users. The download for the update was offered for free, and Windows 10 is predicted to run on 50 percent of business organizations by January of 2017, according to Yahoo Tech. "For businesses, we expect that implementation will be significantly more rapid than that seen with Windows 7 six years ago," said Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner
Since the "privacy" glitch on the OS came out, many critics have been unhappy and wary, and the issue heightened concerns about data protection, according to Network Asia. However, Microsoft assures that the issue should now be fixed from the released Nov. 24 update, and affected users should now have the bugs cleared from their system.
