Re:Microsoft fixed critical vulnerabilities in uncredited up...
by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:00AM
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> And now that this information is unpublished they apply nothing. It's lost on me how they keep their jobs.
IT managers keep their jobs by caring about stability and not applying changes without clear reason.
Re:Microsoft fixed critical vulnerabilities in uncredited up...
by symlinkk on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:06PM
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Why is that necessary? Ive run Windows on the desktop for probably 10 years and I have never had an update break anything. Seems like people just trying to make themselves useful if you ask me.
Re:Microsoft fixed critical vulnerabilities in uncredited up...
by rbanffy on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:14PM
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It never broke anything you noticed.
What if you are a bank, an airline or a hospital, with thousands of networked Windows machines, and one update breaks a specific networking feature (remember [1]) and that crashes your most vital piece of software?
1- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/968920/windows-vist...
It's all just "security" or "reliability" and possibly a link to a KB which says the same.
Some large organisations still have stalwart IT managers who insist not to apply updates unless they know it affects a specific issue that they have. And now that this information is unpublished they apply nothing. It's lost on me how they keep their jobs.
Oh well.