Re:Microsoft criticized for changing the pop-up box encourag...
by ryanl0l on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:55AM
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Ah, I'm sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you were ignoring updates altogether.
Installing specific KBs works fine until Microsoft stealth patches something, which isn't exactly unheard of.
In this case, that includes keeping up with the latest updates when they come out, looking up each KBnnnnnnn marked as a security patch, and checking whether it looks good before deciding whether we should install it. It's not rocket science, it's just more difficult than it ought to be since Microsoft stopped putting any helpful information directly in Windows Update. It's still far less hassle than either jumping through Enterprise hoops or experiencing downtime because a Windows Update broke something important and we couldn't block it.