Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update

snydeq writes "'No sooner did Microsoft release the latest round of Black Tuesday patches than screams of agony began sounding all over the Internet,' writes Woody Leonhard, reporting on verified problems with Microsoft Automatic Updates KB 2817630, KB 2810009, KB 2760411, KB 2760588, and KB 2760583. The latest round of MS Auto Update hell comes on the heels of one of the worst runs in MS Patch Tuesday history — and just in time for Microsoft to expand the scope of its automatic update damage. 'Does this make you feel warm and fuzzy about automatic app updates in Windows 8.1?'"

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Wipe the gravy from your face.

[Sponge Bath]

Microsoft just went bukkake on its customers.

Re:Wipe the gravy from your face.

[WarJolt]

What do you mean just?

This is why I have a 1 week delayed install policy

[dicobalt]

It's simple but effective.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Anonymous Coward]

It's OK, these specific bugs are minor... an unexpected UI change in office 2013 and an update to office 2007 that says it's not installed after it has been installed.

way overblown

[Anonymous Coward]

I am not sure how this qualifies as a patch disaster. There appears to be nothing wrong with the patch. The issue appears purely to be people that haven't updated their outlook while installing the latest patches lose a folder pane, annoying but hardly a disaster and fixed by updating their machine. The issue is applying a new patch to an out of date version.

Re:way overblown

[Nimey]

Because there's a vocal bunch on Slashdot who get excited by a chance to hate on things, especially [Microsoft|Google|Sony|the government].

Re:way overblown

[recoiledsnake]

Please do your company a favor and tell your cluless IT support about the existence of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_Update_Services

Windows Server Update Services 2.0 and above comprise a repository of update packages from Microsoft. It allows administrators to approve or decline updates before release, to force updates to install by a given date, and to obtain extensive reports on what updates each machine requires. System administrators can also configure WSUS to approve certain classes of updates automatically (critical updates, security updates, service packs, drivers, etc.). One can also approve updates for "detection" only, allowing an administrator to see what machines will require a given update without also installing that update.

Administrators can use WSUS with Group Policy for client-side configuration of the Automatic Updates client, ensuring that end-users can't disable or circumvent corporate update policies. WSUS does not require the use of Active Directory; client configuration can also be applied by local group policy or by modifying the Windows registry.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[fekmist]

I used to have this policy as well, until I went GNU/Linux for 99% of the time. The 1% on Windows I use to play games but it is rare and seeing as Linux is getting more games nowadays I might go 100% soon enough.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Anonymous Coward]

That week makes little difference: Windows patches come weeks after the vulnerabilities are beeing exploited.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Nerdfest]

Linux user here. No real comment, just enjoying the show.

Do you pay for this operating system?

Beta Is the New Gold Master

[organgtool]

It's shit like this that forces me to turn off automatic updates and wait a month before manually applying updates. And it's not just a Microsoft problem - I have also seen similar issues from Apple and Canonical.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Penguinisto]

Ditto for home - the only Windows box left in the house is a VM on my MacBook Pro, which doesn't have network access to the outside world.

Now at work? It depends on the box, where it sits (inside, DMZ, etc), what it does, and how badly the patch is needed. Snapshot/backup-before-patching is a *must*. Takes work to triage it all, but well worth the effort, all things considered.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Anonymous Coward]

Your virginity is assured. Rest at ease.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[VortexCortex]

Your virginity is assured. Rest at ease.

I've always wondered why folks think so highly of the mating game. After years of married life and kids I'm miserable, while the friend of mine who remained single and mostly dateless is now the happiest guy I know.

Rest uneasily, divorce court is rape.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[VortexCortex]

Yes, because I develop cross platform applications, but I run it in a VM on Linux too, so I just restored the MS OS partition from snapshot. If you don't have a separate partition for /home/, or if you you let Windows touch bare metal, you're going to have a bad time. Always use protection.

Unvirtualized proprietary software? Not even once.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[steelfood]

an unexpected UI change in office 2013

Did they backtrack on ribbon too? Well it's about time.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Anonymous Coward]

You chose your mate .... poorly. Its like you bought a discount pentium I computer with 8 megs ram and are complaining that all computers suck. No, they don't you just suck at the selection process.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[wulfhere]

You forgot the unwritten (until just now) rule that all analogies on Slashdot must be car analogies. This is like if he bought a Jaguar that he thought was going to be a fun, sexy ride, but instead is terribly high maintenance and broken most of the time.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Zontar The Mindless]

Ubuntu != Linux.

And "Debian testing" is called "testing" for a reason. See if you can figure out what that is.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[LordThyGod]

Macs are for fags.

So how many do you own?

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[Blakey Rat]

Use another distro, obviously you're doing something wrong and it's all your fault, you must have a weird configuration nobody else in the universe has, well it's open source you can go fix the updates yourself, maybe you're just not smart enough to run a sophisticated OS like Linux, etc etc etc etc.

Just going through the litany of replies you'll get to save some time.

Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol

[bigstrat2003]

Let's address those point-by-point.

• Free: fair enough.
• Fast: Windows is plenty fast enough, and has been for quite some time.
• Open: who cares? Being open source doesn't matter for the vast majority of people, even power users.
• Reliable: Windows is also plenty reliable enough. We aren't on Win95 any more.
• Not back-doored by the NSA: for all 99% of people know, Linux is back-doored by the NSA to high heaven. The ability to inspect the source code means nothing when you aren't qualified, nor in possession of a trusted contact who is qualified, to find vulnerabilities in the source code. Linux's lack of back doors is taken by most people on faith... the same as Windows.

So out of your list, the only valid point is "free". And perhaps applications, depending on if you need to use an app which is Linux-specific. But otherwise it's not a compelling argument you just made. And hey, if you have no need of applications which run on Windows and want to take advantage of the Linux price point (or just prefer the OS), God bless you. But Linux advocates also need to cut it out with this superiority complex nonsense. Linux and Windows are both perfectly serviceable operating systems which may or may not be superior depending on your needs. Saying one is inherently better than the other is asinine.