The issue with WU July KB5015814, meanwhile solved, reappears with KB5016629 in WU August, though with different error codes. In July I had error code 0x8000ffff, now I get 0x80073701.
A claimed chat session with Microsoft Support states: “Yes, it’s a common issue with Windows 11 and we’re currently working on it. Apologies for the inconvenience. …“.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-cannot-install-update-kb5016629/b2f9065a-c10a-4642-82bf-915b0caf7f3d?page=1
So do I wait and see, or do I perform a repair upgrade?
1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)