Microsoft's latest security patch troubles Windows 11 users Complaints over Microsoft's latest patch Tuesday have intensified after some Windows 11 users found their systems worse for wear following installation. The July 12 patch, KB5015814, was a relatively straightforward one that dealt with a number of what Microsoft delicately termed "security issues" in its summary. It also …
Any update which takes away Windows would have been enough.
It's blisteringly awful. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, they prove me wrong. Again. I should have known better by now.
That said, the latest MacOS beta prior to MacOS 13 beta (12.5 beta 5) was also awful. Given the problems that introduced I'd rate it compatible with Microsoft's Gold standard releases. It rates as the first beta worth rolling back IMHO, which is an unhappy first for MacOS.
Also note that this is the first beta EVER where I had to do this, and I have been running betas for years. In a way this is good, I got too used to running pre-production code as if it's fully ready.
Thankfully I have an as yet unbroken habit of updaing before an update, a useful legacy from when I was still using Windows which I just kept..
Aw come on, the new sponsored content is shown as intended, so the patch's main feature is working. Who cares if the user can't work as long as he can be properly monetized.
Sorry, confused: So additional ad displays and such are delivered as "security patches" now? They really stop at nothing...
Since my only Win10 device died I have been blessedly free of the need to care about this crap.
Unfortunately, my other half has gone and bought a cheap Win11 laptop (fair enough, it's for business) - so now I have to worry again about this sort of thing.
Damn you, Microsoft. Damn you to hell.
@revenant
"...my other half..."
My better half is (and will probably always will be) stuck on Windows, which means I am still stuck with supporting her machine.
Don't know if it is related, but she had a problem last week with printing (Windows insisting the printer is off-line, even though it was not). Rebooting both devices had no effect, so I decided to run the troubleshooter (which has never in all the years managed to resolve any issue, usually just giving up in despair and statiing it could not solve the problem). Its first attempt ended in a "no solution" resolution, but the second time round (this was after the reboots) it told me that issues were found and would I like it to implement its solution? So I clicked on yes and, after several minutes it happily announced that the problem was fixed, the solution being that it had turned the printer on. Since the printer actually printed, I left it at that.
Yesterday afternoon, after returning from work, her machine (a laptop) announced that no bootable media was found.
It refused to boot from a Hirens Boot CD usb stick, so I took it in to a local PC shop (as she was anxious to get it working again and I really did not have time to spend on it), which fixed the problem by reinstalling WIndows, as none of the repairs were able to fix the problem. The disk is fine, though.
Ditto ---------------------->
3 PCs, 2 being clone whitebox desktops although with different applications, and the 3rd a new LG Gram notebook. 1 desktop installed no worries. 2nd desktop installed after about 3 hours of googling and trying this and that and finally eureka.
The notebook never would install and the errors kept changing as I did one thing and then another; I finally did an in place Win 11 upgrade atop Win 11 and after the 'upgrade' it claimed the notorious update was included.
FWIW I had 40+ years in ICT and have been around the block many times, but out in far orbit trying to deal with Microsoft. On one hand it is amazing so much complexity works as well as it does, but on the other the errors system is almost juvenile/novice most of us in other companies got over decades ago. Simplistically if you know what an error code is about and what probably caused it you automatically fix it in the software and keep going, not send the user bonkers.
If only Linux Mint could only get some sort of sponsorship deal with Nvidia, in that Nvidia provided drivers for every Nvidia graphics card produced and just supported it under the latest Linux Mint completely 'hassle free'.
It would be the best OS by a mile and also provide Nvidia with the status of being the 'card of choice', when it comes to running multiple OSs. It would be win-win.
It's the Nvidia proprietary graphics driver issues with Linux Mint that let it down right now, for the average novice. Get that sorted and Mint WOULD hit the mainstream.
I'm a massive fan of Linux MInt, I'm just recognizing the issues users face.
Have to say too, it's 15 years since I said Windows Update was clunky, rusty bag of nails, and it is still a clunky rusty bag of nails even in Windows 11, 'Software as a service, it ain't".
> provide Nvidia with the status of being the 'card of choice'
Pointless. If you buy a laptop, like most people, you already have very little choice, usually it will be Nvidia. I actually would had preferred an AMD card given on my last laptop the Nvidia driver didn't work at all, but I was forced to get a Nvidia nevertheless.
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> Software as a service, it ain't
Hey, nobody said it was a service to you, you egocentric...
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