Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster Microsoft's Patch Tuesday preview, KB5043145, arrived last week and is already causing some headaches thanks to serious stability issues. These previews are released early to give administrators time to test them before a full rollout on the next Patch Tuesday. In this case, October's Patch Tuesday, the last preview update for …
And always give it at least a week (three maybe better) for the SNAFUs to be reported by the beta testers other users, though this can lead to the conundrum: update to a potentially unusable system to avoid a zero-day exploit?
Liability in such cases really needs clarifying but, guess what, it won't be.
No, I don't assume it. Let's call it the updaters dilemma: you know you've got to install the security fixes at some point, but how do you know that the update won't brick your system?
A minimum of a week is reasonable, but only if you have some resource that taps into the feedback provided by the millions of unwitting guinea pigs and let you know whether it's another howler, or mostly harmless.
Here's your OS and we'll bork it for you when you need it.
Every single paid for License key for software Windows should come with a compulsory 2 license package. One for the machine you're using, and a back up machine if it goes Kaput on an update.
Windows also needs to allow people to manage their own updates, when the updates are worse than the Malware - you know you're on the wrong OS.
As much as I hate to say it, I'm slowly turning to Mac.
Come, this is a tech forum. You should know that we need version numbers or update numbers before we believe a word. Sorts like certain immigrants eating cats and dogs. Great press but easily debunked.
There are enough Mac users here that some of us (yes, me included) should have encountered this problem before now.
Please don't tell us that your friend was installing a beta release.
Does your friend by chance have “security” software installed? That is a known vector for massive misbehavior after upgrades. It should be removed before the upgrade, or at the very least updated to the latest version that’s advertised as compatible with the target macOS.
To be fair Apple knows the exact spec of every machine running MacOS. MS is supporting hardware from a hundred or so manufacturers using some permutation of 20 processor chips and god knows how many graphics chips.
It’s pretty much impossible for them to test for all the thousands of different hardware configurations out there.
that Microsoft is working on fixes for the problems. I have my doubts. I also feel that even if they are working on fixes, they won't have the fixes ready in time for Patch Tuesday, and they will emit the patches anyway, ready or not. They're Microsoft. It's what they do.
I shall be spending the weekend setting up images for my home and office WinBoxes. And I will probably wait to install patches until at least Friday. Just to see how bad things really are. This is being typed on a Win10 box which will not, repeat, NOT be going to Win11.
Now, where did I put that Acronis key...
Personally I think Nadella is trying to ape Elliot Carver, the Bond villian from Tomorrow Never Dies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4Rll9axkQ
A challenge for the Registeriate - produce an A.I. video of Satya Nadella sitting in a big leather chair, stroking a white Persian cat saying "No Mr Bond, I expect you to DIE!!!!"
Considering how absolutely borked the final release of Mac OS Sequoia is, I see a trend at both Microsoft and Apple.
The reasons I suspect are:
- misunderstood Agile as a means to simply save costs
- focus on non-core issues like AI
- DEI ad nauseam leading to less competent programmers
- and outsourcing.
DEI is not a thing in India which if I'm not mistaken, is where most dev for MS is outsourced to these days.
As for FRAGILE.... Apart from being a great album by 'Yes', as a dev methodology it sucks big time especially if messed up with SCRUM and an unwillingness to deal with technical debt.
I'm so glad that I got out of the dev game w.r.t Microsoft.
>> Who is this mythical user who uses Edge
where I work went all Chrome after IE but have now mandated that it will be Edge from now on as it is almost the same, but as they are just about totally a M$ shop I guess that makes sense to them as M$ knows everything about them already.....
As ever another example of the con that's been laid on the tech industry that we have allowed to happen. Microshit & other vendors don't test. Release faulty products & expect the customer to take all the risk & test their software for them! And SOMEHOW in the 21st century this is seen as normal.
The ONLY time you should need to patch is to add functionality NOT to repair a faulty product yet wait for the...all software has bugs or the underlying products might be faulty.....thank fuck you guys don't make planes!
How many $millions of customer money is being wasted on patching infrastructure? Purely because tech vendors don't want to spend money on testing
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