14 DAY TRIAL // The March 2021 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates released by Microsoft landed with one big problem: they caused a BSOD on devices with certain printers, thus making it impossible to use such a peripheral when available.
The company acknowledged the glitch shortly after it rolled out the Patch Tuesday updates, and only a few days later, it returned with out-of-band updates to resolve the whole thing.
But as it turns out, even these cumulative updates are breaking things on Windows 10, and according to Gunter Born of BornCity, the encountered problems rang from BSODs to broken printing.
GDI glitch?
Needless to say, broken cumulative updates aren’t necessarily new in the world of Windows 10, especially as many of the patches previously shipped by Microsoft also caused various installation issues or eventually broke down other OS features.
In the last months, however, the Redmond-based software giant managed to improve the overall reliability of cumulative updates, and the failed installs, for example, have almost entirely been resolved.
But as it turns out, major issues are still possible, and the March 2021 Patch Tuesday rollout is the living proof that in some cases, not even the preview updates that the company ships for testing can help prevent them.
Born believes the new bugs might be related to the Graphics Device Interface, or GDI, especially because some users are struggling to print images.
The good news is that Microsoft has shipped new updates for the updates it released to fix the updates, so yes, there are new updates that you can download right now from Windows Update.
At the end of the day, Windows 10 users have been provided with a ton of updates this month, so just head over to Windows Update to make sure your device is fully up-to-date.