I certainly appreciate your efforts on behalf of all of us and your sharing of your thoughts on this MESS.
Now more on my situation:
machine i first encountered, and reported here, this issue on is the most used, daily. only thing in the view history list right now is KB2830477. I did NOT attempt any fixing of anything ie update reset tool.
under installed updates there are KB2830477 and KB2867650 installed 12/13/14. following are updates from 12/10/14, which is when KB3004394 was installed. KB3004394 was listed under installed updates this morning as well as under view history. i review history every time updates are installed and it as ok after 10/12/14 updates.
I personally sat and watched KB3024777 install and do its thing. machine working fine now, i think.
another machine, which runs almost as much as above machine, has history only dating back to 10/15/14. KB3024777 is listed under history but not under installed updates. KB3004394 is nowhere to be found
in these lists.
on a third machine, which runs less frequently, 3004394 had been installed. 3024777 failed to install 3 times and successfully installed 1 time. history file is complete.
on a fourth machine , which slept thru this whole nightmare until i fired it up today, checked for and installed updates.. no sign of either 3004394(which was pulled) or 3024777. history file is complete.
I certainly would like to contact microsoft directly and this inexcusable disaster. But i would like to know where to really apply some pressure.
windows 10 also suffers from some equally inexcusable messes, even considering it is beta.
Paging Mr Nadella.... Mr Nadella????