11/14/2023 0 Comments Oo shutup10safely remove hardware![]() A little too transitional/work in progress for some, I can see that (2 control panels? madness!), but otherwise pretty smooth.īut maybe it's also because I left computer support type roles and I haven't seen the nightmares like I did with XP/2000/Vista/7. But Windows 10 feels like an improvement over any previous version of Windows at least. Computers are still in their birthing stage and full of problems. I agree with the sentiment that "everything is bad". If you have designed your OS in such a way as to make updating it a pain in the ass that's prone to breaking things, and turning updates off also a pain in the ass, then the problem is the OS. It's the freedom the OS allows and the billions of different configurations you'll find out there. This doesn't mean that Windows 10 isn't bad, it just means that everything is bad. I'll show something similar if not worse happening on the other OS you've chosen. Then name a problem that's happened with Windows 10. Any OS at all that is sufficiently complicated as to compete with Windows (maybe as a starting point anything a tiny bit more complicated than ChromeOS). > From my experience as someone who has had 0 problems since betaįrom your experience as someone with no experience dealing with issues caused by Windows Update, got it. There are always exploitable issues in an OS, sometimes updates even introduce them (remember heartbleed? or that time Debian broke key gen?). If you pay attention at all to security you'll always hear stories of that one client who hasn't done security updates in 3 months (or 3 days) and gets taken out by the inevitable "exploit Wednesday" shenanigans.Īnd if you read past the headline you find out that they had numerous other problems with their security practices that were actually responsible for them being compromised, because if "keep it up to date" is the extent of your security policy then you don't have a security policy. That's truly an unfortunate thing in my eyes that makes me sad - Windows is an amazing platform that could be so much better. The philosophy within Microsoft has changed in recent years, and now there seems to be an attitude that running Windows v.now is the primary mission of every Windows PC. End of the day, we have computers to use as tools to do things, business comes first. You need to exert a level of testing every six months that previous Windows versions required every 2 years, and you have to deal with the rubix cube of servicing editions of when a random feature that you care about is twiddled or taken away in Office or Windows.Īlot of the hard work and creative engineering that gives a near-legendary and seldom mentioned track record of backward compatibility in Windows is being squashed by poor release management. In any non-trivial enterprise, Windows 10 has an operational model that's being rebuilt in flight. If "exploit Wednesday" is an issue for you, something is wrong. Usually that one client also lacks other compensating controls, particularly around privilege managemetn and internet access, and the lack of patching is a convenient excuse. ![]() I respect your position here and don't intend to be on the attack. Hell Apple can't even do it on iphones/imacs and they have a very tiny number of SKUs to deal with. Of course any 1 update isn't going to account for all of that. On top of that if you're in an enterprise environment when you update you've already had months of home users beta testing the stuff (if you've chosen the semi-annual channel), haven't you?įrom my experience as someone who has had 0 problems since beta (that weren't caused by me doing something stupid like uninstalling Windows Store) people mess with windows, usually by running a script or 2 because "omg Microsoft is spying on me!111!" then the update comes and throws them an error or 2.Ĭhoose any other OS. If you pay attention at all to security you'll always hear stories of that one client who hasn't done security updates in 3 months (or 3 days) and gets taken out by the inevitable "exploit Wednesday" shenanigans. ![]()
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