lol
micro$oft havent got a fucking clue
Microsoft has suspended distribution of April's Windows 8.1 Update to some enterprise customers after a bug was discovered that could bork affected machines' ability to receive future updates. The issue affects businesses that distribute software updates via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2, which …
@Khaptain: "In 2013 MS had a net income of 21 Billion dollars"
@aqk: "No doubt this one will make the Reggie's "Most Read" or "Most commented" shortly! With of course, the de rigeur (and incredibly witty) dollar-$ign in the usual places."
How much of this do MICRO$~1 spend on testing the software?
"In 2013 MS had a net income of 21 Billion dollars."
That shows they are good at taking money from suckers like you, for software that doesn't fully work.
People like you, who have been conditioned into thinking poorly working software is acceptable, even though you've been repeatedly paying for it for the last two decades.
If you asked for a black coffee, and got white.. would you take it back and complain? What about if you found a toe nail in your Big Mac? Your wheel fell off after buying a new tyre? Your Amazon order arrived late/damaged?
>That shows they are good at taking money from suckers like you, for software that doesn't fully work.
MS, Apple, IBM , Canonical, Red Hat etc are business that make money from "suckers"... All of them produce software and their corresponding updates, so by your standards we shouldn't use anything that comes from any one them. They are all in the money making game.
Which company do you use that does not require payment for their services and is also capable of producing business/enterprise class software that has no bugs?
Please add some details to your ranting.
"Which company do you use that does not require payment for their services and is also capable of producing business/enterprise class software that has no bugs?"
It wasn't a "my provider is better than yours" rant. In fact, Microsoft has always been my main vendor. With the money that I have thrown at them, it gives me a right to bitch about how shit they are!
So unlike you MS fanatics on here, who blindly agree and support anything MS do without consideration - I knowingly get shafted.
"Please add some details to your ranting."
Where do I start, ... ?
"micro$oft havent got a fucking clue"
You clearly have no significant understanding of software.
You've probably never written a substantial piece of software in your life.
You don't understand anything about software testing or complexity.
You might, possibly, believe the Fairy Dust story about software peddled to ignorant acolytes by Apple (whose own software is amongst the lower levels of reliability and whose approach to bug announcement and fixing is laughably babyish in the corporate world. I'm talking about the GUI, here, which is pretty much all that Apple write themselves: the rest - the substantial / robust part - is bought or is Unix).
Here's an idea. Learn about writing a program, go away and write one of more than 100 lines and then come back and tell us about it in a year or two. Show us your code, test plans, results. You don't even have to try designing it yourself, just start with someone else's design.
Then, if you've got the b*lls, say to us, 'Sorry, I now realise I was talking out of my arse and had no idea about software. At least I now understand a tiny bit of just how much I don't know.'
Just a suggestion for self-improvement. Please feel free to ignore it.
"You clearly have no significant understanding of software.
You've probably never written a substantial piece of software in your life.
You don't understand anything about software testing or complexity."
This wasn't a coding error, it wasn't complex either, just dumb.
MS switched TLS to a version not currently used by their own software update system.
They're idiots, they did the equivilent of putting super un-leaded in their _clients_ diesel cars as they thought it was a better drive than the usual fill-up.
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Rejoicing!
"Nya nya! I told you that crappy ol' M$ was no good! Why didn't you get a cool linux system or a Mac like I did?"
No doubt this one will make the Reggie's "Most Read" or "Most commented" shortly!
With of course, the de rigeur (and incredibly witty) dollar-$ign in the usual places.
Nice to be among the weenie-boppers. Let's see how many down-votes I can accumulate here.
Incorrect assumptions.
Anyone who has more than a couple of machines running the same OS and MS software can benefit from having a local WSUS.
Also, I already deployed the Win8.1 Update on my company's WSUS and all our Win8.1 are fully up to date. Granted, none of them are on users' desks yet, just in the test lab.