Microsoft Windows 10 v1511 MCT is back, baby. Here's why it vanished...
Microsoft is sorry for yanking the Windows 10 November update a few days ago. But now the version 1511 download is back via the Media Creation Tool (MCT).
It turns out that all the dark rumors of why Microsoft did this were wrong. Redmond isn't backtracking on ISO downloads, there wasn't a critical crypto bug, and there's no plan to throttle availability.
The problem was simply that they found a bug in retaining some privacy settings when you used MCT to update an existing Windows 10 install. And with all the ridiculous hoo-hah about Windows 10 being “spyware,” who’d blame Microsoft for being extra sensitive about the issue?
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