Re: Microsoft need to be held accountable!
- From: MichaelW <MichaelW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:22:00 -0700
He didn't say anything (really)! As Peter F. has tried to say by asking
"What?". A better question: "Huh...?"
"cdmazoff" wrote:
Thanks for saying much better what I wanted to say myself.
CD
"Pappy" <Pappy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I normally do not get so upset to the point where I feel like I have to
make
such a statement, but after only a few hours of sleep in the past two
nights
fixing what Microsoft screwed up and seeing half of my wife's company's
system affected the same way by this weeks security updates, I'm going to
fuss for a moment.
I have been in this industry for 16 years. I have seen Microsoft shine
and
with some of their successes and there are times where it seems as though
their QA department went to lunch. This time their QA department was on
vacation while these releases were developed. Strange, on the page where
the
KB's are described, there are credits to the development team ... it
should
be Reprimands instead. What were they thinking by making this available
to
millions without running it through their own organization first. I can
guarantee you, had they done so, some changes would have been made and we
would not be going through this.
Yes, in a day and age where we are playing cat-and-mouse with the pukes
that
constantly waist their lives away exposing security breaches in Windows
and
other applications, it is important to get the fixes/updates out there
fast
... but not this fast! Not when it makes a system completely unbootable
to
the point where you have to go into the Recovery Console, know what your
are
doing with the list of commands to un-install the offending update. What
about those poor saps that cannot remember their Administrator password?
Yes
it happens: They pick something so simple thinking that they will never
forget. Then they find themselve typing in the names of their families,
the
names of their in-laws, even the names of their goldfish in dire hopes
that
one of them will be a hit.
How does Microsoft plan on making this up to us? I truly hope that
someone
at Microsoft who still passionately cares about quality reads this and can
come up with a way to make up for the lost productivity and sleep caused
by
this goof-up. How can they assure us that a security update will not
bring a
computer to its knees to the point where a rebuild is the final solution?
I
sure miss the days you could boot from portable media, replace the corrupt
file or make the necessary changes to the configuration with out having to
be
an MCSE!
So, the key words for you Microsoft are: "Test", "Test", and "Test". Run
these updates throughout your organization first, if you feel as though it
will be acceptable to the public, then release it. Do you hear me?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Like I said, I am not one fuss much, but when you distribute such an
offending piece of code that cripples so many systems, something needs to
be.
There, now I feel better (soft of).
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