In this serious situation, Microsoft chose to pull the update offline and then attempt to fix the issue.

If you want to use it immediate, you might check for update manually now.

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In this more than one month period, Microsoft just wanted to fix this issue.

Then, on November 13, 2018, Microsoft roll out Windows 10 October 2018 update again.

What does this mean?

If there are, Microsoft will not allow you to make such an update.

Microsoft has work hard to make everything back to normal state.

Microsofts Attitude

Actually, Microsoft has encountered a big test of Windows 10 quality in this year.

Then, it was Windows 10 October 2018 update of this time.

Microsoft has to pull it offline to fix it.

It will do its best to avoid such kinds of issues in the future.