Re:Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report
by _wmd on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:22AM
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I wanted to say this, but evidently it was pointless given that seemingly 80% the people on this thread have absolutely no understanding of change management whatsoever, or more importantly the problems you might face when customers have your update infrastructure indirectly linked to national grids and industrial automation. Clearly Microsoft should just release Windows as a repo on GitHub and push fixes to master.
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Re:Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report
by matwood on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:41AM
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I agree with you and mentioned elsewhere in the thread that patch Tuesday was one of the best moves MS made when they started taking security seriously. Enterprises could now schedule change management around the dates far out into the future which leads to a predictable update schedule downstream.
Before, many enterprises rarely patched because the testing involved was a huge pain and it fell outside what they typically planned for.
Re:Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report
by danielweber on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:45PM
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At a prior company managing firewalls for SMBs that didn't have room for patch management beyond "automatically apply patches", we loved the predictability of Patch Tuesday. Often we would purposefully schedule around it, so if PT did break something, we could point to the schedule and say "nope, we didn't change anything on the box that Tuesday."