Batu69 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Microsoft is offering the choice between terrible or woeful security+Comment Microsoft has explained its policy about how much information it will offer on the content of Cumulative Updates to Windows 10.In a statement sent by a spokesperson to The Register, Microsoft said: “As we have done in the past, we post KB articles relevant to most updates which we’ll deliver with Windows as a service. Depending on the significance of the update and if it is bringing new functionality to Windows customers, we may choose to do additional promotion of new features as we deploy them.”The Register asked Microsoft for clarification on the policy after the company issued a new cumulative update for Windows 10 and refused to say what it does other than to say it offered “improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10.”+Comment: To your correspondent's mind, Microsoft's stance flies in the face of years of sensible security advice to trust nothing. Asking users to just swallow Windows 10 updates is very hard to consider as best practice.`Microsoft will say that Windows Update is super-secure and back that stance until the heat-death of the universe. And it probably is, but as Cisco's recent admission that attackers have crafted malicious firmware shows, nothing is completely secure and attackers know the value of subverting vendor software.Updates that offer minimal information about their functions don't inspire confidence. They should inspire the opposite – suspicion - not least because of Microsoft's historic sermonising about trust.Second, Microsoft has recent form flubbing patches. If Microsoft's papering over the cracks of a failed patch with un-explained updates, and therefore failing to disclose to users that they remained vulnerable at a time they felt Microsoft had their back, it's using a nasty form of misinformation.Third, suspicion of Microsoft is justified because Windows 10 is a data-slurper par excellence. An “enhancement” to Windows 10 that benefits Microsoft might therefore be to the detriment of your privacy. If Microsoft had nothing to hide, surely it would let us know what it's up to with each update? Or is it hiding behind the fig leaf of the permissions assigned when Windows 10 was installed?Fourth, Redmond has form charging more when it thinks it's done enough to deserve it, as it did for Office 365. If hiking prices because of enhanced functionality is Microsoft's policy, surely it owes users an explanation about just what enhancements it has bestowed upon them.Lastly, we also asked Microsoft if it intends to release unexplained updates for Windows Server 2016. The spokesperson told us “Microsoft has nothing to share on this matter in regard to Windows Server 2016 as it’s not available yet.” Which doesn't rule out unexplained patches appearing in Windows Server, complete with the assumption you'll happily use them in production environments.Microsoft surely won't go there. And if it did, would you follow?Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veboy Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Title is misleading. I thought they were going to stop posting KB articles and wanted to rage so hard. but thank God, false alarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Is this yet another operating system cocked up by the ''we want an Apple like system'' by M$? Windows 95 was a breath of fresh air when it was released. 32 m.b. r.a.m. was more than enough. Now 8 g.b. barely gets the job done. 3 g.h.z. processors is entry level. A one (1) t.b. S.S.D. drive is needed. Why can't they just build on the success of 95, 2000,XP and then 7. 98 was o.k. Millennium, wow not very good as for Vista and 8, get me a sick bag. All we seem to have is thrust in our faces is tiles and fancy crap. I want an operating system, that starts, stops and goes. I don't want a pretty wanna be like Apple Mac system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Blame it on Google , they use to explain updates tell Google researchers started posting exploits to windows that never been exploited in the wild . A serious threat would be like that bug they posted about all versions IE . A not serious threat can be patched and the hackers dont need to know what was patched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Lots of us want to like and use Windows 10, but Microsoft are doing their darndest to give us reasons not to.The biggest reason of all is the forced updates. I do not want a future where every morning I wonder if this is a day where a forced update will make *MY* PC unusable.I want choice, and Microsoft is refusing to give it to me. So I raise my middle finger to Microsoft.... Windows 10 is not the future for me... stuff you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 No explain = No complaint... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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