Microsoft Renames Patch Tuesday As It Switches to Monthly Windows Updates

Microsoft is investigating what went wrong and why these borked patches keep on being leaked to the public every Black Tuesday.

 

You'd think that by now they'd have figured these patches out though.

 

Incompetence is rampant these days....

 

It definitely seems to be the case with Mickeysoft these days. Have they all been smoking astroturf or something at Redmond?

 

I think they saw something called "mobile" one day, and decided to jump on the bandwagon about 3 or 4 years too late....

 

Even if they had a bandwagon it would be recalled.

 

Brick Tuesday patches have been a problem for quite a while now.

 

For Windows XP I recall one round of updates irreversibly breaking my graphics drivers a while back. For Vista, too much breakage and too severe to recount it all, but the most notable was an SP2 update that invalidated WGA. Very painful to deal with.

However, from what I'd seen as of Windows 7 SP1, they had these issues pretty well under control at that point. So (as with Windows 8 and Metro/Modern) I'm surprised and annoyed to see them breaking things again. When you have a formula that works, and you've spent 10+ years getting there, you don't just throw it out.

 

Updates are sometimes hard work on my Vista machine, and mercifully my Win 7x64 desktop survived this most recent Bork Tuesday, but this whole charade is very disconcerting. MS has been slipping of late in many areas if you ask me. I often wonder if they are cutting corners for some reason.

 

Maybe it has something to do with laying off thousands and rationalizing it with the trendy corporate buzz phrase "we can do more with less"

 

Thankfully, I've never yet had an issue with any updates in my 5 years of Win 7 usage... but I guess there's a first time for everything... Yeah, if it works, don't fix it.

 

so now hotfixes will appear on windows update?

 

For Windows 8 and 8.1, yes, but that was the case before in the "update rollups" too.