Re: Microsoft deliberately destroyed 10 hours of work
- From: "Tom Willett" <tompepper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:33:55 -0500
Richard: We have several computers with Automatic Update, and many times we
come in and there is a message stating that certain updates required a
reboot, and that AU had done the reboot.
Tom
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OTdmvSL4GHA.2228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| If you were totally up-to-date on your patches prior to this incident, it
| wasn't Microsoft.
|
| They have not issued any new patches since September 12. And, I have never
| seen a Microsoft patch that has rebooted a computer automatically. That
| would just be foolish.
|
| --
| Regards,
|
| Richard Urban
| Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
| (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
|
| Quote from George Ankner:
| If you knew as much as you think you know,
| You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
|
|
|
| "Lorne" <Lorne_Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:uSa0WOL4GHA.324@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Early this morning I set my laptop going on a 10 hour job that
manipulates
| > large video files.
| >
| > I have just checked it thinking it was about to finish and found a
| > message, I presume from Microsoft, saying that an update had
automatically
| > restarted the computer. How can Microsoft be so stupid as to write
| > software that restarts a computer without user permission when it is in
| > the middle of running a program?
| >
| > The result is I have to redo 10 hours of work (the program can't restart
| > and use the partially processed files I had on the disk, so I had to
| > delete everything and start from scratch). This is totally unnecessary,
| > completely stupid, and completely insensitive to users. Surely it is
| > simple to write code that asks if it is OK to restart and to wait for a
| > user response before doing anything. If there is something about this
| > update that needs an immediate restart then there should be a warning
| > BEFORE it is installed so it does not get installed until the user has
| > said OK and knows that a restart will follow.
| >
| > How do I make sure this message gets to somebody at Microsoft who should
| > care about their customers and can do something to prevent this
stupidity
| > being repeated?
| >
|
|
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