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Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot

posted by martyb on Monday February 17 2020, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the broken-fixes-make-PCs-into-bricks dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Like a needy ex-partner that just won't let go, Microsoft's legacy OSes continue to cling to the Windows behemoth's ankles. Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 have once again been bashed with the borkage bat.

Users are reporting that the fix to fix the fix that broke the desktop wallpaper in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 has left systems unbootable after an apparent boot file deletion.

The fix-fixing fix (KB4539602) was unleashed at the end of last week, and some administrators have kicked off a deployment.

It has not gone well.

One Redditor remarked that 18 2008 R2 servers had fallen victim, while another reported 30 Windows 7 computers were refusing to boot after an install.

If you don't already have the 23 September 2019 (or later) SHA-2 update installed, you will probably be having a rather ungood day.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @05:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @05:14PM (#959212)

    Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that they don't want to spend the money maintaining older versions of Windows, and are continuing to do a piss-poor job of it. The goal is to force everyone to downgrade to Windows 10.

    The trouble with that theory is that Microsoft is doing the same piss-poor job with Windows 10 as they have been with Windows 7.

    For some reason, I'm pretty sure their Total Cost of Ownership calculations that they use to scare people away from Linux and BSD don't include the cost, time, and hassle of switching away from versions of Windows that have been deprecated by Microsoft.

    They also like to trot out the old "oh noes, you'll have to learn a whole new user interface", ignoring the fact that you have to do the same thing when leaving Windows 7.

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