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Submission + - Unexplained out-of-band WIndows DVD patch

Submitted by davidwr
davidwr writes: Microsoft released September 2014 update for DVD playback in Windows 7 SP1

as an out-of-band "Important" update yesterday without explaining why it was rushed instead of waiting two weeks.

Microsoft knows that patching annoys system administrators and others and typically doesn't do out of band updates without a good reason. Unlike the recent out-of-band Russian Time Zone update, there isn't an obvious to be a "you must install this by a certain date or something will break" reason to rush this.

Does anyone know why Microsoft didn't either 1) wait two weeks or 2) provide a clearer explanation of why this is important enough to push out early?

Comment Re:Not just 9 (Score 5, Informative) 399

by jones_supa (#48034483) Attached to: Why did Microsoft skip Windows 9?
Under the hood, the NT6 core actually is still the same. With Windows 10, we will see a platform update from NT 6.3 to NT 6.4, which brings some improvements to the kernel and things like that. But they have not done a complete rework to the deep internals (like they did with Vista) which would warrant a new major version number. The silly Start Screen, Modern UI, and things like that are related to just shuffling around middleware and userspace components.

Submission + - Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement (digitalmusicnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you’re a Grooveshark user, you should probably start backing up your collection. In a decision released Monday, the United States District Court in Manhattan has found Grooveshark guilty of massive copyright infringement based on a preponderance of internal emails, statements from former top executives, direct evidence from internal logs, and willfully deleted files and source code.

Submission + - School district goes "all in" on Open Source with 3500 Linux laptops (opensource.com)

Submitted by lerchie
lerchie writes: Charlie Reisinger, IT director of the Penn Manor School District in Pennsylvania discusses how they converted to Open Source software on both the desktop level and at an infrastructure level. The schools also give the students the freedom to tinker with the Linux laptops they are assigned, with each student having root access to their machines.

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