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  • Re: Dimdows Update Is Broken (Yawn)

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Fri Apr 17 23:24:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Even Windows Server is not immune <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-april-patch-puts-windows-domain-controllers-into-reboot-loops>. It’s not just one bug:

    KB5082063 now has three acknowledged bugs within a week of
    release, and Microsoft has warned separately that the same update
    prompts some Windows Server 2025 machines for a BitLocker recovery
    key after installation. The company is investigating reports that
    KB5082063 fails to install entirely on a subset of Windows Server
    2025 systems.

    April security updates have disrupted Windows Server domain
    controllers for three consecutive years. In March 2024, Microsoft
    shipped an emergency out-of-band fix after that month's Patch
    Tuesday caused DC crashes outright. The April 2024 patch cycle
    then broke NTLM auth across Windows Servers and forced unplanned
    DC restarts, which Microsoft corrected in a May 2024 rollout.

    In June last year, the company released another correction for
    Active Directory authentication problems introduced by the April
    2025 security update. This month's LSASS crash follows the same MO
    for the third year running: a general Patch release followed by
    post-deployment failure reports from enterprise admins, and a
    scramble for mitigation while the fix is prepared.

    Aren’t they charging enough for that high-priced product to make
    quality support worthwhile?

    My guess is, the answer is now “no”. Windows Server sales have been so impacted by Linux that the return on investment just isn’t there any
    more.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Wed Apr 22 23:24:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:24:13 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Even Windows Server is not immune ...

    And they’ve managed to spread the quality-degradation infection to
    other platforms, as well, if their users are stupid enough to adopt Microsoft’s software. In this case it’s that festering pile of
    excrement known as ASP Dotnet <https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/microsoft-issues-emergency-update-for-macos-and-linux-asp-net-threat/>.
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