Patch Lady – we feel your pain

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I remember seeing this video YEARS ago and thought many of you might enjoy it….  This was (I believe) done by Microsoft Europe back in the Windows X
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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You just made my whole week. Thank you!

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[Cybertooth]

This is fantastic!!

My own favorite theoretical concept in computing is what we might label “return the favor” software, by which the attempt to install malware on a user’s system would trigger the delivery of a different kind of zero-day code to the hacker. Hope their own defenses are up to snuff… 

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See the tread headed Windows 10 USB Printer Problem

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Ayyyeee, CARAMBA! Susan, I howled so loud when I saw this my wife thought something had gone wrong with my root canal! I showed her (she’s had decades in tech environs) and she laughed so hard she was crying!

ROTFL and thank you for the best laugh I’ve had in weeks!

Oh, man! Is there any way to really do this with some of that ol’ swamp Voodoo? Hey, I got a black cat bone, and a mojo too, and a lil’ bit of John De Conqueroo…

Hysterical! Bravo!

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Microsoft, LISTEN UP, I would even be tempted to PAY  for something like that IF it WORKED ! ! !

Dave

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lanceboil, doriel

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Such should be applied to the C-suite  possibly especially Marketing personnel who forgot who got them where they are…EARLY customers with LONG MEMORIES  ..and if updates are more for MS amusement or someone’s C Y A  attempts to please those more focused on quarterly reports and SALES..and stockholders vs customers..AND           raising trial balloons,   reading customer’s reactions for marketing purposes…..WHILE wasting the CURRENT customer’s precious time needed to perform customer’s daily tasks, routines and production responses REQUIRED to BE COMPETITIVE and keep THEIR OWN customers …and..NOT to be beta testers or survey fodder…  = SERIOUS DISAPPOINTMENT ..soon…imho.

THANK YOU great video !!

JD Wiggins

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Steve, ryegrass, doriel

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So great video, I did not know about it! Id like to see if you could send MSFT back your anger, pain or whatever during patch tuesdays

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Elrod

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If it was real, half the staff of Microsoft would be dead since the release of Windows 10…

But I think It should not be engineers who should feel the pain, but the marketing staff for controlling projects and forcing them to be release…

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Charlie, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, ryegrass

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This concept should be applied far beyond just Microsoft. All OS or app programmers should be included in this.

As end users, we NEED the coders to feel our pain!

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks

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Can you imagine all the ejector seats ejecting occupants post RTM W10 xxxx ‘feature updates’

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Thanks for the great laugh, Susan.

Not sure whether I’m just lucky but I have had very few problems with Windows over the past 19 years when I started with Windows 98 Second Edition in early 2001.

The only “major” problem I recall was with Windows Me (aaaargh!!) not getting along with Norton Antivirus. I didn’t find out what the issue was until later (I ended up going back to 98SE until XP was released).

Even now I have no problems at all with the setup in my signature and Windows 10 2004 (clean install) with the June updates installed (the “amnesia” with Defragment and Optimize Drives still hasn’t been fixed but that’s not causing any issues as far as I know).

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I think something like this would make Windows 10 even worse than it is now. Developers would be in constant pain. Eventually they’d all be off on extended stress leave. Of course, they all use Linux at home.

Byte me!

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Charlie

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I like the idea of applying this concept beyond just Microsoft.  There are many others I can think of and #1 on the list would be the Cable TV industry.  Having to pay them a lot of money for lousy programs while still having to watch their maddening commercials.  Yep, the cable and network executive producers could really use this!

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