Re:Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report
by dalore on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:34AM
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Applying a patch to everyone at the same seems risky (not to mention scaling issues). Can't they stagger the patch, so if there is an issue with it then only some users have an issue instead of everyone.
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Re:Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report
by GotAnyMegadeth on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:51AM
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If it was an important security patch for a bug that hadn't been publicly disclosed, rolling out to a few machines might be as good as disclosing the bug.
Re:Microsoft hits out at Google team over bug report
by danielweber on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:48PM
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I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that there is no other company in the world that understands the effects of releasing patches as much as Microsoft does.
Large enterprises already have centralized patch management, so they can decide how fast it gets pushed downstream to their users after MS releases the patch.