More own foot shooting from Microsoft

General Discussion
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Ya gotta love it when Microsoft sabotage their own OS

Microsoft says to uninstall August patch updates causing blue screen of death
http://thehackernews.com/2014/08/Microsoft-Patch-update-Blue-Screen-of-Death.html

I know this to be true because I had a Win8.1 PC here the day before yesterday with the same issue:-

"Stop 0x50 errors," aka blue screen after applying any of four updates (KB2982791 KB2970228 KB2975719 or KB2975331).

If you update your Windows with the update, a message flashed on the screen that reads: “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info and then we’ll restart for you (0% complete).”

“Installation went smoothly. After rebooting everything worked fine. But when I shut down my notebook and switched it on a little later it came up with a blue screen with a Stop 0x50 in Win32k.sys. I could not even boot into safe mode as Windows failed to start no matter which mode chose”

Workaround (including for those that can’t boot) detailed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2982791

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That’s some real nice QA there M$.
AND they give themselves time to test stuff by delaying their patches!!

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Maybe their latest 18,000 layoffs bit into the QA dep’t, and we’re now into the runaway train scenario :slight_smile:

[EDIT]

This one has been committed to “bookmarks” (along with a few other examples of updates breaking Windows) for when someone next bitches about a kernel update breaking something in a “well it doesn’t happen in Windows” kinda way.

Including this famous one that broke nearly every PC with an AMD CPU (and BTW made a lot of people a ton of money):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/40a0eecb-bc00-4746-8f5b-610891d7a73b/xp-sp3-and-continuos-reboots-on-amd-based-systems?forum=itproxpsp
in which they blamed OEM’s … erm, it was Microsoft’s policy to get OEM’s to pre-install windows without giving out a disk.

and quite a few other less famous examples.

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Bizarrely, reading the link you posted about fixing this mess, it all seems to be related to fonts - how can fonts ever be that critical, and involve the kernel?!?!

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And People are paying for the privilege… ??? ??? ???

Jocklad

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Wonder where you’d stand on suing them for breaking your PC / loss of earnings ?

I’m going to guess that’s why a new Windows PC ask you how YOU want it to deal with updates … so legally you let Microsoft off the hook.

Choose NOT to auto-install updates, and any problems are your fault … Choose to auto-install updates, “well it was YOUR choice”…