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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 LoRdTAW on Monday June 26 2017, @07:43PM (2 children)
Hope is the keyword. I find Windows in places it doesn't belong. We bought a new Trumpf Laser workstation last year. I don't know what runs on a Siemens SINUMERIK 840 but the two Beckhoff systems in it run Windows embedded. One runs the UI for everything on a Beckhoff embedded PC, the other is a CX9020 embedded automation controller that has EtherCAT IO. The only upside is the vision system that connects to the IP camera on the laser head is running what looks like redhat (can tell by the kernel boot screen) with a custom UI.
Though here are a few automation companies that use Linux out of the box: Opto22, Delta Tau, MKS Instruments, Phoenix Contact, WAGO, and a few others. Some offer Linux support such as Advantech, Kontron, and other embedded vendors. Even Beckhoff who are complete wintel whores, offer the CX9020 with the option to boot Linux off an SD card. But that does not include any software support beyond a github repo nor will it run their TwinCAT automation software which is all windows based.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday June 26 2017, @09:32PM (1 child)
Well yeah, hope is all I can offer at this point. Hopefully Win10 will turn out to be a complete disaster for embedded/industrial control applications like this, forcing huge losses on companies that use it. If they're not smart enough to use something else (maybe Linux, maybe some other RTOS), and the companies buying this big-dollar equipment aren't smart enough to demand better, there's nothing anyone else can do.
However, not having that much contact with systems like this, how much does it matter that it runs Windows? Most importantly, is any of this stuff networked? If not, it's not that big a deal aside from the horrible UI of Win10.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:40AM
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