interesting story about installing an MS update, and the hell it brings

[piratePenguin]

I never thought MS and the updates (even the security updates) they provide could be this bad, but I was reading this article and here's a few quotes:

I have DSL, and my computer is always hooked up to the Internet (with a firewall in place). As long as I can remember I've dutifully had my computer's settings adjusted so that automatic Microsoft system updates will occur behind the scenes as they become available.

The first time I realized this was a dumb thing to do was about a year and a half ago, when my machine automatically downloaded Microsoft's Service Pack Two. Funny things started happening to my computer, which was becoming old and was already experiencing its own aging problems. Microsoft's update sped up the aging process, and Service Pack Two turned my machine into a decrepit vegetable that had to be put out of its misery. No problem, I needed a new machine anyway.

So I had a fellow RTC member build me a fabulous new machine. It was running beautifully, until an automatic update that occurred two weeks ago. You should know about this update, because if you've downloaded it, your machine will start running like poo-poo (a technical term). It's called Security update MS06-015.

The damage that occurred was like this. Whenever I tried to perform a

[Refalm]

First of all, he sound just like a spoiled rich kid; "my computer is slow, I'll let my parents buy me a new one".

Now in the professional world, Windows Update gave me quite a problem. To circumvent a patent about loading dynamic content into a website, Microsoft brought out an update that requires you to click on a Flash file before it's loaded.
Some people like this, but it's hardly nice to force everyone to have this. What's even more stupid is that this update is rolled out all around the world, even here, where software patents do not exist (yet).
If Microsoft wants to annoy yanks to possibly prove a point fine, but don't drag the rest of the world allong with it.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Yeah I remember that at one point I stopped updating Window$ because it always seemed to make things a lot worse ... it was just a feeling I got, but I think it was an accurate one.

[emuelle1]

In 2004, I made a switch to DSL in an attempt to save money over cable. This was the week SP2 came out. I got my home network running on DSL and all the computers got a notification that an update was available. I downloaded SP2, and DSL stopped working. When I called Verizon, I found that their service would not work with SP2 and I had to uninstall it until they could provide a fix. I ended up having to reformat 2 computers completely, although one did managed to revert back to XP non-SP2 without a loss of data.

For the next several months, I would periodically get the stupid baloon telling me that an update was ready. I would tell it not to download SP2, then it would suddenly give me a long list of individual updates that needed to be downloaded. I can't tell you how many times I told it not to ever tell me about SP2 again, but in typical MS fashion it kept coming back.

I was happy when my DSL connection went down and I switched back to cable so I could just download the stupid update and get rid of the nag message.

[Refalm]

Microsoft was to blame for creating such buggy software.

I have cable, and it still isn't compatible with Windows ME.

[solemnwarning]

My cable works on whatever the hell I plug the ethernet cable into, even a 486 with windows 3.11!

[Refalm]

My cable connection too, except for Windows ME.

[newf_1]

My office program is legit but not according to microsoft.I wonder if it's because Firefox is my default browser.I wouldn't use IE to piss on....Well maybe.
all together now MICROSOFT SUCKS

[yahurd]

i had similar opensuse problems


it was so many weeks old, i bought a new one! :rolleyes:


 

Now in the professional world, Windows Update gave me quite a problem. To circumvent a patent about loading dynamic content into a website, Microsoft brought out an update that requires you to click on a Flash file before it's loaded.
Some people like this, but it's hardly nice to force everyone to have this. What's even more stupid is that this update is rolled out all around the world, even here, where software patents do not exist (yet).
If Microsoft wants to annoy yanks to possibly prove a point fine, but don't drag the rest of the world allong with it.

sounds more like an amazon problem


CURSE YOU SEXIST PATENTING BASTARDS

[yahurd]

My office program is legit but not according to microsoft.I wonder if it's because Firefox is my default browser

yeh, funny thing is, from what i read, they use it themselves a lot
http://adamjh.blogspot.com/2005/11/six-months-with-borg-first-impressions.html

[pofnlice]

that looks about right...

[_LiquidOxygen]

Any campany tests their products before they stick 'em on the market - not just Microsoft. From what has been said here, and through my experience with Windows, I cannot believe that Microsoft would release updates that bring more harm than good to a bloody computer!
 
The updates that Microsoft has put out are, I think, malicious software dressed as computer system updates, and I am glad updates aren't going through to the older systems - wouldn't want to degrade those ones now, would we? They've brainwashed many of their customers into thinking that they are a trustworthy company and that these updates are worth it. But as has been proven here, they are not.
 
When I installed one particular update, which required me to restart my computer, I got IEXPLORE.EXE errors after I closed my web browser (and still am). My computer worked perfectly well before! Maybe the best versions of Windows to go for may be the ones that are no longer supported - they've now been put out of their misery according to this page.