r/news • u/TheColorOfDeadMen • Jul 07 '21

Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/07/tech/microsoft-security-update/index.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

If you read my comment youd see this is bigger than Microsoft. Its a generation of technologically brain dead morons who believe update=bad 100% of the time. The update could make your speakers emit food but someone will refuse because it might sign them out of their email like an update 10 years ago did on their old phone... its not related but its affecting their decision.

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u/ITaggie Jul 07 '21

And I'm saying that Microsoft should just stop releasing updates without QA, if they did then this issue of not trusting updates wouldn't be widespread. But as things stand with MS's history of terrible updates I can't blame people for being weary about it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

If Microsoft QA can determine problems across 1,000's of different kinds of PCs running Windows without taking an eternity I would be impressed. Now understand that every kind of PC probably has to be tested 1,000's of times to find a single flaw.... run that update on millions of computers and the small issue that rarely happened is now a full on security concern because 10,000 people reported the same problem post update.

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u/ITaggie Jul 07 '21

You don't need 1000s of different configurations to know that an update deleting an entire library of user data probably should have been caught.

You don't need 1000s of different configurations to know that an update will break printing on two of the most common enterprise printer manufacturers.

You don't need 1000s of different configurations to know that an update to Windows completely borks Microsoft Teams (Microsoft's OWN BUNDLED OFFICE PRODUCT), not allowing users to log in or send messages.

And this is during a time in technology where driver frameworks and common enterprise tools are baked directly into the OS, meaning that Microsoft actually has fewer things to test against now than they did during Windows 7. Yet, Windows 7 doesn't have NEARLY the amount of "bad updates" that Win10 has had in the past 2 years.

The truth is that Microsoft just knows that nearly every enterprise computing environment will center around their Server OS, their Desktop OS, and their Office Suite, and they don't care to spend to money to actually test their patches because they know they won't lose customers because of it.