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The Register is reporting that Microsoft recommends that you NOT install the recommended .NET Framework 4.7 update:
Earlier this month, Microsoft gave the world .NET Framework 4.7 and urged users to install it for the usual reasons: more fun bits to play with and a security improvements.
But two days later the company urged Exchange users not to install it ASAP, because it hadn't validated it yet. Last Friday - 10 days after the launch of the new code - it reminded users of Lync and Skype for Business not to install it either.
[...] "We are in the process of validating Exchange Server on the .NET Framework 4.7, but the work is not yet complete".
While that validation is happening, "please delay this particular .NET update on your Exchange servers".
If you followed the original recommendation and installed the framework, and now wish to follow their new recommendation, then Microsoft recommends you follow these instructions to roll it back.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday June 26 2017, @06:56PM (5 children)
> The only other serious contender is Apple [...]
I notice that the story posted just before this is about Chromebooks.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 26 2017, @08:22PM (4 children)
That article is about installing Linux on a chromebook. I am talking about the push to rid MS from the desktop. I'd love to see it happen. But most developers I know are either happy with Windows or switched to Apple. Mention Linux and you get nothing but Linux sucks comments or rants.
Not everyone wants to mess with an OS. And most developers I meet don't give two shits about the OS. They want a platform where they can crank out code. Apple and yes, even MS gives them that. It sucks but that's the way things work. The usual line is: "I tried that Ubuntu thing but it didn't have x." x being a commercial software package. That or some piece of hardware didn't work properly or at all (wifi anyone?). That's where Apple comes in. It gives them just enough of the icky Unix bits with a slick UI so they can ssh into their node powered iot web 4.0 servers while running photoshop. That's what they want. They don't care about kernel this, desktop environment that, systemd rants, etc. They just want to turn their computer on and get to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)
That's a short-sighted mentality. The main reason many pieces of hardware don't work on GNU/Linux-based operating systems is because of non-free proprietary user-subjugating software; hackers are forced to reverse engineer, which takes time. I guess these useless developers can have fun living in their prisons, as slaves to proprietary software.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 26 2017, @11:49PM
Jaded.
Fine. I get it. Proprietary this and that. But I'll be honest and say that was more of an issue 15 years ago when I first started playing with Linux (ISA sound cards anyone? ,[shudders]). It's 2017 and I rarely find hardware that doesn't work save for a few wifi cards and niche/odd ball hardware. Everything else pretty much works out of the box.
So if Linux is ready for the desktop where are the applications? Linux isn't an application. And that's the biggest problem for Linux: no one cares about the OS, get it? It has nothing to do with proprietary, freedom, liberty, libre, or any other feel good bullshit. If that really mattered to people we'd all be running Linux or some other open source OS. The OS doesn't matter. The applications do. And they're all on Windows where they've been for the last two or three decades. Whats the incentive to start over for Linux?
Stop being so dramatic. Some of these people are making north of $100k in their "prisons". I don't see any slavery in that salary. Some people are doing better than me writing fucking java script code in an SSH session from their MacBook Pro shaped prison.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday June 26 2017, @11:58PM (1 child)
It seems I didn't clearly communicate my thought. The other article reminded me of Chrome OS, which is backed by Google. With Samsung, Dell, LG, H-P and Lenovo offering computers with Chrome OS pre-installed, it strikes me as a "serious contender" in the desktop computing arena. From what I've heard, it's suitable for those who prefer not "to mess with" the operating system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook [wikipedia.org]
> That or some piece of hardware didn't work properly or at all (wifi anyone?).
The nice thing about Windows is that all the hardware works without hassles.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:08PM
Ah, I see what you mean.