Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on more PCs

Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by dimino on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:34PM (#11826673)

That is an interesting idea, and on first blush I do think it'd be safer, but it does rely on figuring out exactly when the flaw was introduced, and will result in the "YoYoing" of features, which is confusing from a consumer standpoint.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by 5ilv3r on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:49PM (#11826766)

POCs are a part of any good bug disclosure. It should be easy to test that one is no longer affected. Besides, trying older versions to undo problems is a very old and reliable technique.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by dimino on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:51PM (#11826780)

I get that, but when you roll back, you don't really control what else you're removing, and you're implying that a roll back wouldn't break other parts of the system, or that it even makes sense, given the state of the system (it could be years before a vuln is noticed).

Imagine waking up one morning and realizing you can't use uppercase on your file names anymore because of a rolled back vulnerability.

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