Unfortunately, these kinds of issues are normal for patch Tuesday since Nadella took over. His re-doing of QA at MS hasn't helped matters and perhaps is the cause of all these issues. I'm hoping they can get back to their old QA levels soon.
Lots of admins I've spoken to have added longer delays for more testing nowadays. That means a critical Windows update may take 4-8 weeks to get to desktops and servers now. I think MS is playing with fire here with its terrible QA and also making updates mandatory in Win10.
MS has effectively passed the testing it should be doing to its customers. If it wasn't for its monopolistic position, none of this would be remotely tolerable.
All these are viable, and I use a handful of them- however, there's a lot of software that's windows exclusive, and if you're in a corporate environment chances are you're using a bunch of webapps that are IE exclusive. If you're a gamer, graphic artist, modeler, etc, you need directX.
Now, this is all becoming less of a problem (thanks vulkan!) but I would safely say MS has a monopoly still.
I've been a sysadmin for over a decade now. Patches have never been this bad. Its incredible how there's a major problem pretty much every other month now.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 31.2 ms ] threadLots of admins I've spoken to have added longer delays for more testing nowadays. That means a critical Windows update may take 4-8 weeks to get to desktops and servers now. I think MS is playing with fire here with its terrible QA and also making updates mandatory in Win10.
MS has effectively passed the testing it should be doing to its customers. If it wasn't for its monopolistic position, none of this would be remotely tolerable.
For home consumers, definitely, its much easier.
Now, this is all becoming less of a problem (thanks vulkan!) but I would safely say MS has a monopoly still.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-sys...