The company is still working on a fix for affected computers

Aug 23, 2014 09:56 GMT  ·  By

Some of the updates released by Microsoft this month are wreaking havoc on a number of Windows 7 computers, with lots of users reporting BSODs after installing the August patches.

Microsoft has since removed the patches, but it appears that the company has decided to go one step further and removed a complete thread from its Community forums where users were discussing the causes behind this trouble.

What’s more important is that the thread was also hosting the post of an alleged Microsoft employee who details the bug and explained that this month’s updates could really cause a “horrible user experience.” We first wrote about this post this week and most likely because everyone started to talk about the statements made by the Microsoft employee on the forums, the company decided to remove the whole thread.

In the meantime, Microsoft continues work on a fix and nobody can tell for sure when exactly this is expected to see daylight, by removing this month’s updates seem to be the only way to deal with the problem until the company provides more information.

At this point, it appears that only Windows 7 computers are affected by the issue, with only a few Windows 8 devices also reporting similar problems after installing August updates.

Update: it appears that the link has been either moved or restored, so it's now available once again. Special thanks to Woody Leonhard for sending this in.