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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: 3, Informative) by zeigerpuppy on Monday May 19 2014, @10:52PM

    by zeigerpuppy (1298) on Monday May 19 2014, @10:52PM (#45414)

    I've used heaps of distros but IMHO you can't beat Debian. The Debian version of Linux Mint is a good place to start. It's a really easy system to maintain and the mint people have done a great job of making the default desktop really nice to use.
    If you have weird hardware sometime the Ubuntu drivers are a bit newer (laptops for instance). Just boot up the live CD and see if you like it.
    Welcome to Linux, it'll take a little getting use to but you'll wonder why you stuck with windows so long!

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