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RachelF on May 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patching Is Hard

Microsoft used to do decent testing of their updates.

In the last two years, they seem to be saving money by letting their users to the testing.

When a patch comes out we need to weigh the unpatched security risk vs the risk of the patch breaking things.

cryptarch on May 13, 2017 | [–]

Microsoft, training the next generation of operations teams to use staging environments.

monksy on May 13, 2017 | [–]

"It's agile."

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