Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/17/2013)
Miles Neale (4/17/2013)
"easier for Microsoft, but it's a big step backward for companies"This is not a big step backwards for a company who develops excellent patches, tests everything so they know that it works perfectly, and can guarantee that it will work first time every time. If you always get it right, and really right, there is no problem.
Is this the rep that Microsoft has? If not then there needs to be either the ability to roll back patches, or a team of people working night and day fixing those pesky patches that fail.
It's not that all MS patches fail, but some do, including a few Win7 patches last week. They do work night and day (I've talked to some of them), but it's still an impact to people when there are issues.
I think we should always be able to roll back, since we never know if there will be issues.
I agree that not all fail. And in fact most are very successful. And the folks work more hours than we realize. But when a patch fails it is really a big deal. And if we have no option to back it out, there is an instant need for a very quick correct hot fix. If that isn't possible, we have to have the ability to back things out.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!