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On 16/02/14 23:59, Simon Waters wrote: > Although in fairness to the integrating the UI and OS question, I was > fairly surprised when Windows 8 update failed with an error that says it > can't talk to the task bar icon. 80243004 > > Wouldn't be so bad but the UI exposes an option to hide the icon which > does it seem break Microsoft update. A workaround can be to download the .exe or .msu files then run them. Sometimes this will "just work", other times you will get a more useful error message. > I guess this isn't strictly mixing OS and UI, since presumably I can > push the upgrades without using Microsoft update. But there is something > very wrong here, just need to know more about the innards to say > precisely what. One of the things I find especially ironic is that Windows is often described as "simple". When it is actually a very complex system. Where not all the parts (and interactions between parts) could be considered "well documented".
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