New wave of update issues

Now that the flood of addon27.db issues has subsided, I am noticing a growing trickle of users having other install or upgrade problems.

Would it have anything to do with what this article talks about …

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/24…dows-7-8-1

Basically Microsoft has implemented a KB that breaks certain aspects of old version Windows running on newer hardware, which came into effect yesterday.