Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update, just don't
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You know what really surprised me about this whole WannaCry ransomware problem? No, not how quickly it spread. Not the breadth of organisations it took offline either and no, not even that so many of them hadn't applied a critical patch that landed a couple of months earlier.
Discuss
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Agreed, unfortunately MS has a image problem with Windows Update, and they've not solved it. What is worst is that technically minded people are still perpetuating a lot of BS about Windows Update. Windows 10 update has very few issues, it doesn't interrupt, it doesn't bug. Maybe if you never restart your PC you might have a few more issues, but for the vast majority you will hardly notice it doing its job. Even the latest creators update was clear and straightforward, you couldn't really tell it basically done an whole OS update.
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Agreed, unfortunately MS has a image problem with Windows Update, and they've not solved it. What is worst is that technically minded people are still perpetuating a lot of BS about Windows Update. Windows 10 update has very few issues, it doesn't interrupt, it doesn't bug. Maybe if you never restart your PC you might have a few more issues, but for the vast majority you will hardly notice it doing its job. Even the latest creators update was clear and straightforward, you couldn't really tell it basically done an whole OS update.
Even if it does occasionally cause issues with a handful of machines.. a) Most are fine. b) Those that aren't are eventually fixed. c) It's still better than taking out whole sections of the internet and it's repercussions on society (e.g. hospitals shut down). I do wonder about the wisdom of connecting absolutely everything to the internet though (IoT, we all know what's coming). The loss of the F35 designs to Chinese hackers was obvious stupidity. Seems to be the trend these days.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Agreed, unfortunately MS has a image problem with Windows Update, and they've not solved it. What is worst is that technically minded people are still perpetuating a lot of BS about Windows Update. Windows 10 update has very few issues, it doesn't interrupt, it doesn't bug. Maybe if you never restart your PC you might have a few more issues, but for the vast majority you will hardly notice it doing its job. Even the latest creators update was clear and straightforward, you couldn't really tell it basically done an whole OS update.
cjb110 wrote:
Windows 10 update has very few issues
and one of its issues is that the update service is prone to jumping on its hamster wheel and burning 100% of CPU forever.
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One (Microsoft) must be blind, deft and totally ignorant not to understand the reasons of closing the door for updates... However to blame it on those ignorant IT and other end users is fits the picture...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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One (Microsoft) must be blind, deft and totally ignorant not to understand the reasons of closing the door for updates... However to blame it on those ignorant IT and other end users is fits the picture...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
One (Microsoft) must be blind, deft and totally ignorant not to understand the reasons of closing the door for updates..
I'm with you on this.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
However to blame it on those ignorant IT and other end users is fits the picture...
One has a choice: Install updates, or don't. Anyways, whoever makes a decision must take the blame if it turns out to be wrong, or even worse: malicious. We're frequently ranting about higherups who decide, and then still blame us if their decision was wrong. MS is in the same boat: Others decide, and if their decision was wrong MS gets the blame.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
One (Microsoft) must be blind, deft and totally ignorant not to understand the reasons of closing the door for updates..
I'm with you on this.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
However to blame it on those ignorant IT and other end users is fits the picture...
One has a choice: Install updates, or don't. Anyways, whoever makes a decision must take the blame if it turns out to be wrong, or even worse: malicious. We're frequently ranting about higherups who decide, and then still blame us if their decision was wrong. MS is in the same boat: Others decide, and if their decision was wrong MS gets the blame.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote:
One has a choice: Install updates, or don't
Exactly! It should be (as it always was) Choose which updates, after consultation and testing. The last "security" update to ms office included GUI changes, and changes to language libraries. Like %$@# those are security requirements!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
