{"id":6798,"date":"2021-06-14T10:53:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:55:15","slug":"windows-10s-optional-update-feature-may-be-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/windows-10s-optional-update-feature-may-be-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10\u2019s Optional Update Feature May Be Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft has introduced a new &#8220;Optional Update Experience&#8221; feature to make updating devices easier, but it does not work well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For over a year, Windows 10 has offered only one optional update at a time, although there have been several optional updates for a user version of Windows 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The optional update feature is supposed to fix the problem where users install an update before they have access to another desired update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users are still unnecessarily forced to install feature updates before gaining access to the desired updates, suggesting that the optional update may be broken.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/windows-10-s-optional-update-feature-is-broken-here-s-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 optional update feature is experiencing several issues, and may be broken for users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}