Journal Black Copter Control's Journal: MS defence: It's all your fault for listening to us
But a service pack is _WAY_ different then a hotfix/patch. ....
So sure, you have to reboot, but that's the only excuse for not installing a patch right away... but months later?
OK: Let's me get this straight:
- MS publishes their hotfixes with a warning that they may break things and you should only install them if you're having problems;
- Sysadmins are at fault for not ignoring MSs warning and blindly installing all hot-fixes immediately
- If you'd blindly installed all MS hotfixes, you might break earlier hotfixes
- Service Packs are mostly just rolled-together hotfixes, but they are known to wilfully break things;
- Despite MS warnings to the contrary, Service Packs need regression testing but hot fixes don't.
A hotfix (...) has never (to my knowledge at lest) changed anything.
- The hot fix that would have blocked code red was undone by a later hot fix.
- The hotfix that would have blocked slammer was at risk of being, itself, slammed by a later hotfix installed in the 'normal' way.
- MS's own servers were broken by the slammer virus.
Just how much knowledge do you have, anyways?
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Microsoft's defence appears to be a maze of conflicting suggestions and practices.
- If you install their hotfixes, you're ignoring their warnings, and anything that goes wrong is your fault.
- If you don't install their hotfixes, you're ignoring their offered help and anything that goes on is your fault.
- Service Packs, while consisting of mostly previously released hotfixes, have undergone better regression testing but also contain (previously unreleased?) 'fixes' that may break software.
- It's a bad idea to install Service Packs without testing them thoroughly yourself.
- Even if the hotfixes fail your regression testing, not installing them means that you're pretty much on your own. Worse than that, you're probably in violation of MS's latest EULA by not immediately un-installing your software.
- If you manage to wind your way through this dead-end rat's maze, Microsoft claims to be protected by the standard disclaimer in their EULA
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