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posted by martyb on Monday May 19 2014, @11:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the updates-got-you-down? dept.

Woody Leonhard of Infoworld summarizes the current state of Microsoft KB 2919355, the ambiguously-titled 'Windows 8.1 Update' (not to be confused with the update _to_ Windows 8.1).

In short: Microsoft has frozen two discussion threads on KB2919355 issues (after 103 and 116 pages of comments), and updated the Knowledge Base article with workarounds for seven major errors... some of which don't work.

In last week's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft changed their deadline for this Update until June (formerly they were requiring all Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 systems worldwide to have installed the Update in order to receive new patches).

Meanwhile, if you run a WSUS server, you may notice that the package for KB291355 (last reissued for the third time on 6 May) was apparently silently reissued over the weekend with a new release date of '15 May 2014', but there's no indication of any software updates in the KB article. The article revision number, however, now stands at '21.0'. Yes, twenty-one revisions. With no changelog.

Anyone else with interesting stories about your deployment issues with this Update?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 19 2014, @02:35PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 19 2014, @02:35PM (#45230) Journal

    How do you handle the Microsoft EOL on WinXP ..?

    How low version can one target and still have decent functionality on Win 8.1? ie Win3.11, W95, W98, Win2000 etc..?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 20 2014, @12:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 20 2014, @12:31AM (#45454)

    XP Compatibility mode still exists in Win8.