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Microsoft update blunders going out of control
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New #11
All,
One of the commenter's, said to do a clean install of Linux for each new release. I am going to have to disagree on that one. Once, you got your system like you want it regardless of what operating system you have---you don't want to change it ever 5 minutes. On ubuntu and other flavors the software updater downloads new version automatically. So no point in doing a clean install of those.
Microsoft doesn't rush things unless it is an out of bounds patch. They do a security release at the minimum on a certain Tuesday or Wednesday each month. That not really the cause of the problem, they may have laid off people that possibly checks the updates.
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New #12
I think you may be right about that one sadly Thrash. Unfortunately; lately the the updates from Microsoft have much more harm than good for us end users. What gives? I mean is it really that hard to put out updates without doing something to harm a user's system? What next?
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New #13
If you research allot of them they have more to do with upgrading to 8 than serving 7
Recommended and Optional updates should be avoided at all costs or at the very least looked at much closer to see what the heck they are for,
Most are a waste of space.
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New #14
Actually, if you consider how many combinations of software and hardware that can exist, it's a bloody miracle M$ doesn't have far more problems with updates than they do.And when they do have a problem, even though a large number of people are affected, those affected are a small to tiny percentage of the total number of people receiving the updates. Also keep in mind that M$ operating systems are huge, complicated programs.I think you may be right about that one sadly Thrash. Unfortunately; lately the the updates from Microsoft have much more harm than good for us end users. What gives? I mean is it really that hard to put out updates without doing something to harm a user's system? What next?
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New #15
Updates?!? Surely you jest!
That's it for me. No more auto updates. Just spent most of my night fixing their mess again. Update leaves my laptop in such a mess it won't even reopen Windows! Nice going, Microsoft!
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New #16
Yep well you have to wonder how long it will take before something like that happens to you/ me...
I personally hate surprises on either Tuesday mornings or Wednesday mornings neither are a good time
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New #17
I don't get surprises. I have my updates set to notify me when they are available, then wait until Saturday morning to download and install them. That way, M$ has had plenty of time to identify a problem and pull the offending update.
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New #18
Very good+++ points.
Updates always working fine here on my machines, both 7 & 8. But am making a os partition image before applying anything, safety comes first after reading about the real problems some experience, but can't remember ever having to revert to a previous image due to any MS update.
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