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Friday Morning Coffee, Google News. Nice Combo

I’m just having a coffee in the kitchen and reading the news, as I do from time to time.  An article popped out at me and I thought I would put it here. People sometimes don’t really understand why I don’t like Microsoft, so this is a little tidbit of stuff that makes me think that way.

The context is, last night I booted to Linux on my laptop and clicked the update button, to update to the new Ubuntu I talked about here. I kinda tossed and turned thinking I might be risking my working install of everything else.  It probably took a couple hours to do, but thats only because it would have taken that long to download the 750 MB of stuff it needed to update.  In the morning, I woke up to one dialogue box saying click to reboot and finish update.  It worked perfectly.  Wireless card works now, everything, and all my customizations from the other install remain.  Perfect.

Not so perfect for M$ business customers who found that updates that were forced on their systems automatically CORRUPTED their business data. Good luck getting that back, I hope it doesn’t cost you too much time, money and productivity!  It’s called work for a reason!  Thanks Redmond.

Read the article here.  That’s a little bit why I don’t like M$.  Who needs that?

Microsoft Backpedals on Windows Updates

Microsoft has withdrawn Vista SP1 from automatic delivery in the wake of news that XP SP3 can cause data corruption in business apps.

Part 1 of a special five-part series.

Neil McAllister

Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:27 PM PDT

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 due to incompatibilities with its Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management software. Now comes word that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has also been withdrawn from automatic distribution. According to Microsoft representatives, changes introduced in Vista SP1 affect how Microsoft’s SQL Server database behaves in certain situations, potentially resulting in data loss or corruption.

Microsoft has been pushing SP1 out to all Vista customers via Automatic Update since last week — pity the unfortunate Microsoft Dynamics customers who discovered the bugs. But the bright side is that Microsoft was able to put on the brakes before the same problems started affecting XP customers, as well. That’s when the real fun would have started.

There’s been no word yet on when the bugs will be patched, but fear not: Microsoft is reportedly working on filters that will prevent any computer running Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management from downloading the OS updates. That’s one way to solve the problem, I guess.

Curiously, there’s been no word as to how many other applications might be affected by these incompatibilities. Maybe it’s just bad luck that Microsoft’s own software can corrupt data when the OS updates are applied, and no one but Dynamics RMS customers need worry. If you ask me, though, I would tread very carefully before applying Vista SP1 or XP SP3 to any server running an application with a SQL Server backend. Until we get more information about exactly what causes the data corruption, we have to assume that this same gotcha might be lurking out there for other business applications, as well.

2 Responses to “Friday Morning Coffee, Google News. Nice Combo”

  1. Hey Dave,

    We figured out who the mystery guy was from your photo….the name of the photo was “me and woodsey”. Who’s woodsey?

    J and J

  2. Ah That’s who you were talking about! Woodsey was one of the Staff at Capernwray way back in 2002!! It was funny to be there again and see him there! He was extremely welcoming and hospitable. We stayed for dinner despite not asking or warning them we would, and then Woodsey had us down to his apartment for coffee and cookies even tho they were scheduled to meet at his place for something else!

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