On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Windows Cumulative Updates That You Can't Opt Out Of Easily - Just Say Way To Piss Your User Base Off
A few rounds of this and they'll really be catching hell from corporate IT depts.
Absolutely. This is a fascinating clash between "updating the software of ignorant consumers" and "taking control away from folks with line-of-business applications they depend on." Bundling all the patches as one was the last step; for years now, MS has been shipping patches with generic "This addresses an issue in Windows" and making it really hard to figure out which patches you want to use and which to skip.
MS has some of the best software testing processes in the software world, but the increasing complexity of their environment is making it harder and harder to get it 100% right.