Microsoft heeft blijkbaar de grote Windows 10 update 1511 zonder enige verklaring teruggetrokken.
Without explanation, Microsoft has removed the just-released November update (version 1511) from the download page it offers to the general public. The media creation tool now downloads the initial release of Windows 10 instead.
When Microsoft released Windows 10 version 1511 earlier this month, the company also updated the installer files it delivers via a free, downloadable media creation tool.
Company executives even recommended the tool to Windows 10 users who were too impatient to wait for the upgrade to arrive via Windows Update.
That upgrade option worked as advertised for more than a week. Today, however, the new files have been pulled and the media creation tool instead installs the July 2015 (build 10240) release.
The sudden change didn't come with any official explanation. The only documentation is a line added to the download page, warning, "These downloads cannot be used to update Windows 10 PCs to the November update (Version 1511