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I don't get it. So because of one issue, they're not going to deliver any other security patch either?

by mtgx 10y ago

noinsight 10y ago
Microsoft stopped distributing individual patches, all updates are now rolled up into one package. Therefore, if one patch causes issues, none of them can be released. Windows 10 already worked like that, last fall they started doing the same for older OS'es. See: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/...
- mtgx 10y ago
  More of a reason to call that bundling "dumb". Seriously, think about all the different issues Windows 10 has caused to people's computers. So if one issue damages a computer, they can't send any of the other updates to that model of laptop? They should be striving towards higher modularity, not a lower one.
r721 10y ago
There are speculations that Windows Update itself could be broken: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3170633/microsoft-windows/windows-update-issues-may-be-at-root-of-februarys-patch-delay.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/3170633/microsoft-windo... https://www.askwoody.com/2017/what-happened-to-the-february-patches/ https://www.askwoody.com/2017/what-happened-to-the-february-...
- acqq 10y ago
  I've followed the links. The argument "if the patch is broken on, for example, Windows 10 but not on Windows 7 they could still release for Windows 7" is wrong: once the patches for Windows 7 are available every criminal can investigate them and then apply the results to the unpatched (delayed) 10 systems. So it's either all platforms or none. Now they distribute all patches in one month together, so they possibly limited themselves to "all or nothing" also for one platform. But regarding all platforms, they only had the choice of releasing all platforms delayed: e.g. one or two weeks or the whole month. If the issue is not trivial, as probably isn't, the whole month alternative wins.

I don't get it. So because of one issue, they're not going to deliver any other security patch either?

by mtgx 10y ago

I don't get it. So because of one issue, they're not going to deliver any other security patch either?

Microsoft stopped distributing individual patches, all updates are now rolled up into one package. Therefore, if one patch causes issues, none of them can be released. Windows 10 already worked like that, last fall they started doing the same for older OS'es. See: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/...

mtgx 10y ago
More of a reason to call that bundling "dumb". Seriously, think about all the different issues Windows 10 has caused to people's computers. So if one issue damages a computer, they can't send any of the other updates to that model of laptop? They should be striving towards higher modularity, not a lower one.

r721 10y ago

There are speculations that Windows Update itself could be broken: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3170633/microsoft-windows/windows-update-issues-may-be-at-root-of-februarys-patch-delay.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/3170633/microsoft-windo... https://www.askwoody.com/2017/what-happened-to-the-february-patches/ https://www.askwoody.com/2017/what-happened-to-the-february-...

acqq 10y ago
I've followed the links. The argument "if the patch is broken on, for example, Windows 10 but not on Windows 7 they could still release for Windows 7" is wrong: once the patches for Windows 7 are available every criminal can investigate them and then apply the results to the unpatched (delayed) 10 systems. So it's either all platforms or none. Now they distribute all patches in one month together, so they possibly limited themselves to "all or nothing" also for one platform. But regarding all platforms, they only had the choice of releasing all platforms delayed: e.g. one or two weeks or the whole month. If the issue is not trivial, as probably isn't, the whole month alternative wins.