Microsoft 'Stealth Update' Proving Problematic 257
DaMan writes "According to the site WindowsSecrets, the stealth Update that Microsoft released back in August isn't quite as harmless as the company claims. The site's research has shown that when users try to do a repair to XP subsequent to the update, bad things happen. 'After using the repair option from an XP CD-ROM, Windows Update now downloads and installs the new 7.0.600.381 executable files. Some WU executables aren't registered with the operating system, preventing Windows Update from working as intended. This, in turn, prevents Microsoft's 80 latest patches from installing -- even if the patches successfully downloaded to the PC.' ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 has independently confirmed that this update adversely affects repaired XP installations: 'This issue highlights why it is vitally important that Microsoft doesn't release undocumented updates on the sly. Even the best tested update can have unpleasant side-effects, but if patches are documented properly and released in such a way that users (especially IT professionals) know they exist, it offers a necessary starting point for troubleshooting.'"
Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Microflaccid strikes again (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Subconscious or stealth push to Vista? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I've run into this and the fix isn't hard. (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Broken Process (Score:5, Funny)
The lather-repeat caused a buffer overflow.
Re:I've run into this and the fix isn't hard. (Score:5, Funny)
- oft-heard criticism of Linux
Leave Microsoft alone. (Score:5, Funny)
Its stock price has stagnated. Google made Steve Ballmer mad. He threw two fucking chairs.
Ray Ozzie turned out to be a blogger, and now he's posting a bunch of comments. All you people care about is readers and making money off of them.
It's a corporation! What you don't realize is that Microsoft is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about it.
It hasn't made a good OS in years. Its spreadsheet is called "excel" for a reason because all you people want is EXCELLENCE! EXCELLENCE! EXCELLENCE!
LEAVE IT ALONE! You are lucky it even makes products for you bastards! LEAVE MICROSOFT ALONE!
Please!
CmdrTaco talked about professionalism and said if Steve Ballmer was a professional he would've monkey danced no matter what.
Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional to publicly bash a company who is going through a hard time?
Leave Microsoft alone, please.
LEAVE MICROSOFT ALONE RIGHT NOW. I MEAN IT.
Anyone that has a problem with it you deal with me, because it is not well right now.
LEAVE IT ALONE!
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I've run into this and the fix isn't hard. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Following your train of thought (Score:5, Funny)
Are you saying they aren't?
Re:Just let us patch the systems (Score:1, Funny)
You do realize you're running Windows, right?
Re:I've run into this and the fix isn't hard. (Score:5, Funny)
from here: http://bash.org/?464385 [bash.org]
Re:Subconscious or stealth push to Vista? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:enterprise ready operating system (Score:5, Funny)