Failure to install Windows 10 April Update(version 1803)

You would have a very valid point if it were not for Microsoft always, and since their conception, rolling out operating systems that do not function. True, software development is a daunting task. But, if that's how you make your money, at least take the time to get it right. This is an ongoing problem with Microsoft. They need to take a step back, slow down, and resolve these problems before they become our problems in our machines. I don't think that is asking so much at all. We don't need the choice to delay the updates, they need to make the updates right before releasing them to the public.

Quality control on a system as complex as Windows, that is used on so many different platforms, is a Sisyphean task. Even designing something as simple as a doorstop that would work with every door in existence would make me despair. As a long-time software developer, I sympathize with Microsoft.

That, however, is absolutely no excuse for not giving users the ability to put off installing an update until said user is satisfied that others have had success. I don't usually mind living on the bleeding edge, and I take precautions if I know I'm about to install an update. The current system of force-feeding us updates is stupid and short-sighted.

Should never have been released and offered in the first place!

Microsoft' Quality Assurance and Testing is abysmal!

They can't even fix bugs in previous releases, then release another update with even more problems.

About time they actually changed their update model to the old ways. Allow the user to decide, as it is quite obvious Microsoft don't have a clue about what works and doesn't.

You don't, and can't at this time.  The company has taken it down. If you have been using Microsoft operating systems as long as I have, you would know they have never been working like they should, never ever. and never will. I like Windows but in a stable state. Everytime they finally get it fixed, they come along and make an "improvement", that sets the system back a couple of years.

They should have fixed it before its release and none of this would have happened. Furthermore, this is not the first time they have screwed us with bad updates. Whatever it did to my machine, I can't even do a clean install now. just have to limp along with the machine until something is done about it, or take the hard drive out and do a format and install from another machine. Thanks, Microsoft.