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20 new updates!
I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates,
yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision. Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects? If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows Server or other non-8.1 systems? Thanks. |
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20 new updates!
On 13/05/2016 18:24, Alek wrote:
I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates, yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision. Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects? If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows Server or other non-8.1 systems? Thanks. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms16-may.aspx -- /*This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again.*/ /*This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology.*/ |
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20 new updates!
Alek wrote:
I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates, yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision. Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects? If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows Server or other non-8.1 systems? Thanks. This is 2016. Of course you read the description for each one. If you didn't want to read the description, you would have left it on "Full Auto", to tip over your OS :-) Right ? There are server and desktop OSes based on the same OS core. When you see a reference to "desktop OS blah and Windows Server blah", the reason the patch is issued for both, is because portions of the code base are the same. The server copy has additional features enabled by license, which makes it the server edition (LargePages, VSS redirection, etc). In some cases, if a security article only happens to mention the server edition, they wouldn't offer it to you unless it "fit" into your desktop OS. And depending on when the update showed up, sometimes the update shows up before the description page for the security patch goes live. You might have to wait up to 12 hours for the description page to appear, if there is no description page evident. Paul |
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20 new updates!
On 05/13/2016 01:24 PM, Alek wrote:
I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates, yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision. Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects? If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows Server or other non-8.1 systems? Thanks. We just did our pc.s and other than the security updates and MS office, the non descript "update for windows 8.1" were all harmless except the first 2 or 3 that were "user experience update..." basically windows 10. If your list shows like our 8.1 did then all you need to do is read about 5 or so of these generic updates and see where they stop talking about the user experience. |
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20 new updates!
On 13 May 2016, Alek wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8: I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates, yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision. Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects? If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows Server or other non-8.1 systems? At this point, I am still assuming that anything labeled a "security" update really is that. I expect I will get bitten by that someday, as it's clear that MS's idea of "security" and "important" is self-serving and quite different than anyone else's. I don't think there is any practical way to determine whether an "important" update really is that. We know for sure that MS adware has been foisted on us disguised as "important" updates, so we can no longer trust that label. I would avoid installing them until I had a chance to read the description of each and every one. You can get along just fine without them. |
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20 new updates!
Nil wrote:
On 13 May 2016, Alek wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-8: I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates, yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision. Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects? If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows Server or other non-8.1 systems? At this point, I am still assuming that anything labeled a "security" update really is that. I expect I will get bitten by that someday, as it's clear that MS's idea of "security" and "important" is self-serving and quite different than anyone else's. I don't think there is any practical way to determine whether an "important" update really is that. We know for sure that MS adware has been foisted on us disguised as "important" updates, so we can no longer trust that label. I would avoid installing them until I had a chance to read the description of each and every one. You can get along just fine without them. My word of warning would be, you should read each article, to see if there is an "Issues" section. Say, for example, an update promises to change font rendering in the kernel, and the web page describing the update mentions "Issues". You want to check the info in there for details. Can it stop the OS from booting ? Or, whatever. Read the Issues section, if one is present. When I installed Windows 7 SP1 (newly purchased) last fall, I had to read all ~200 updates before installing them. And separate out the ones that did not belong. I still ended up with '583 on the machine, but because I saw something "GWX" running in Task Manager minutes later, I caught it and gave it the boot. (I/m pretty sure I had unticked 583, but it installed anyway.) It's a lot of work to review everything like this. When you read 200 update descriptions, there is only time for skim reading, looking for an "Issues" section, and so on. Paul |
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20 new updates!
On Fri, 13 May 2016 19:41:25 -0400, Nil wrote:
At this point, I am still assuming that anything labeled a "security" update really is that. But for two months we have _known_ that is not true. http://www.askwoody.com/2016/ie-patc...en-a-security- update-is-not-a-security-update/ -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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20 new updates!
On 14 May 2016, Stan Brown wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8: On Fri, 13 May 2016 19:41:25 -0400, Nil wrote: At this point, I am still assuming that anything labeled a "security" update really is that. But for two months we have _known_ that is not true. http://www.askwoody.com/2016/ie-patc...curity-update/ Yeah, there's that. Despite the description, nobody has seen an actual Windows 10 ad come from the IE update. But that's a good example. It's inevitable. Microsoft's definition of "Security" has to do with their financial security, not our computer security. |
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20 new updates!
On Sat, 14 May 2016 19:05:29 -0400, Nil wrote:
Microsoft's definition of "Security" has to do with their financial security, not our computer security. Very well said! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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