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Re:Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 10 version 1809, pro... by ConceptJunkie on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:02PM (#18444877)
Wow. That reminds me of my experience with the Lisa back around 1983. It said that the boot disk needed to be initialized, and my attitude (it a school computer) was that if it was stupid enough to reformat the floppy it just booted off of, I was going to let it.

Sounds like Apple just doesn't learn some lessons.

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Re:Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 10 version 1809, pro... by Laforet on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:55PM (#18445276)
Well that was almost a decade ago and I'm unaware of Apple making similar mistakes recently, however I have never managed to figure out iTunes sync in the meantime.

However this behavior is really out of the line for MS since they've got a good track record on backwards compatibility and data preservation. Previously during in-situ upgrades the installer would back up gigabytes of data in a special folder on the off chance that they might be needed again in the event of a rollback, and somehow they managed to drop the ball this time round.

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