New firmware update for Lumia 950/950 XL: 01078.00038.16025.390xx

02/24/16 - Hey Microsoft, thanks for the update ... I always enjoy watching my phone turn into a BRICK!

After update on my 950, no Microsoft apps work .. including Calendars, Outlook, Text Messaging, the PHONE !!!!, People, Pictures, Maps, SETTINGS !!!!!, you get the picture yet!!

Yet strangely, third party apps seem to be working... I just can't use the phone for anything important.

Now I need to figure out how to undo what you just installed... and do it without access to the settings menu.

(Yes, for all those reading I am just a bit angry. Over and over I defend Microsoft and promote this phone. Why? I'm getting nothing out of it. In fact, we loyal Windows Phone users get the shaft over and over with no Apps. And I'm really getting sick of defending my choice for Windows phone and having to deal with this kind of garbage. For 25 years I've been defending Microsoft and I have had just about as much as I can take.)

Advice to Everyone Else ... Don't let the phone update!!!

I see no other option to go back to the iPhone, working phone is necessary to my work -one update for all at one time, fast bugs correction.

I'm afraid you're correct in you analysis.  If Microsoft doesn't start taking care of customers who purchase flagship devices rather than leaving them stranded with no support or information, I too, will return to the iPhone.  I'm not giving up on my 950 XL just yet, but it's getting harder and harder to stick with this platform.

I see no other option to go back to the iPhone, working phone is necessary to my work -one update for all at one time, fast bugs correction.

Why?

Please, re-visit this statement… (just today, the last phones got OS .107).

Beside that, Microsoft Mobile failed to explain this to me in the past, too—over the past twenty years! Obviously, this is one of the risks we end-users have to take, when going for a mobile phone from Nokia, now Microsoft Mobile. Microsoft Mobile does not leverage Microsoft Answers as feedback channel. Why ever. Therefore here, this question drowns in the Internet swarm. Instead, Microsoft Mobile wants us to return the phone (or change the Product Code ourselves).

@Armagon, by the way, do you know how OS updates are distributed – is that the Product Code too or something else?

I like this word "soon" but just now I can't use RM-1104 CV A6 in the car !!! Problems with Bluetooth and GPS connection resolved in .38 firmware but not visible for this variant. Weeks, weeks after official release to Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, MEA. Why ??