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Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Patch For Windows
mrspoonsi writes Microsoft has announced that they will be pushing an out-of-band security patch today. The patch, which affects nearly all of the company's major platforms, is rated 'critical' and it is recommended that you install the patch immediately. The patch is rated 'critical' because it allows for elevation of privileges and will require a restart. The platforms that are affected include: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT and Windows RT 8.1. Windows 10 Technical Preview customers are affected, too.
I guess so, as Server 2003 is from a similar era.
If you roll out your patches the moment they come in, you are a retard - what ever happened to testing them in a subset of your organisation before releasing them to the general population, or do you enjoy running around like a headless chicken when theres a compatibility conflict?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Welcome to IT.
Life is not for the lazy.
THIS! Richard obviously works in a nice posh fortune 500 org where such resources are available to HIM. Meanwhile back int he real world for everyone else (Small Medium Business), rolling the dice is only option. As you said, it's all a risk/reward calculation as to when and where to be proactive with the expendature of resources.
I find the lambasting of "should do this retard" to be quite insulting. As employees, we don't always get that option to do what is theoretically in the best interests of the company we work for.
Life is not for the lazy.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Welcome to Windows.
FTFY ;)
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.
I'm more annoyed by the architecture of Windows that requires reboots for a ridiculous amount of updates. Why haven't they figured out how to stop a service, update it, and then start it again? Why does everything require a reboot?
I understand kernel-level updates will require a reboot, and do on every OS out there. But there are far more reboots in patching Windows than any other platform.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Now Microsoft trying to be more open. Should we be a bit more welcoming to Microsoft?
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
What you view as "trying to be more open" strikes me as being "Embrace".
For the bazillionth time, Google is not "sharing all your data in the world". They are using your data in some very specific ways - and giving you free services in exchange. Those uses are relatively benign, as free internet services go, and they do not include sharing with any third parties.
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...
"For the bazillionth time, Google is not "sharing all your data in the world".
Technically, I think you are correct. What they are doing is collecting every possible bit of information about you in order to better sell you to advertisers.
Somehow, that doesn't make folks feel any better.
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