But won't be drawn on forced update issue
By Chris MerrimanThu Feb 18 2016
MICROSOFT HAS told The INQUIRER that it is aware of a bug which has been causing users' default programs to switch to the bundled Microsoft options.
The saga began when a reader told us that, despite being a long time user of Irfanview as his primary photo app, he was greeted with a message saying: 'A default app has been reset,' only to discover that his new photo app was Photos, the bundled offering.
He traced the problem back to KB3135173, a cumulative update issued for February which was pushed out as an update last week. After deleting the update, he discovered the next day that Windows had reinstalled it, and reset the defaults again.
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Updategate: Microsoft 'aware' of problem causing app defaults to reset
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+62Thanks Jasper for that bit of news! 😃
Well, that is the sort of thing that they have been trying to impose for quite a while...interesting that they wuld resort to a 'bug' to finally make it happen...LOL
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