Windows 10: Question: What happened to PCs under $500 on the Microsoft Store this Wednesday morning?...

I plan to install Windows 10 20H2 today. I sure hope there will be several PCs under $500 I can buy from the online Microsoft Store come 2022 when this new version of Windows 10 I should be able to install on my full HD Dell Inspiron 7558 goes out of support! It'll probably run Windows 10 version 21H1.


Link to the relevant webpage: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/PCs-under-500 or https://tinyurl.com/MSFT500down

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Microsoft Store

Hi James,

To resolve your concern about Windows Store, we suggest for you to follow these steps:

• Press Windows key + R key to open Run.
• Type wsreset.exe and press
  Enter.
• Restart the PC, sign in with your Microsoft user account and check if you are able to find Windows Store.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Issues with Microsoft Store.

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It's Wednesday morning, where's my update?

O.k., thanks guys. I'll give it a week and see if it still doesn't download anything. At that point I'll try fiddling with Advanced Settings (Bree's suggestion) and see if that does it. Funny thing is, it does download other updates, just not the cumulative one.

Speaking of the advanced settings: I had forgotten about that, so I went there, and it is set

• Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) for Feature updates
• delay quality and feature updates for 7 days
• delay security updates for 0 days

This is an Enterprise SKU. Perhaps that last set of patches counts as a "quality and features update"?
It's kind of hard to tell, since the release notes mention both quality/feature and security fixes. As usual, Microsoft has made a mess out of this...