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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.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday February 18 2020, @12:45AM
the muzak was cut abruptly and the loudspeaker voice announced: systemd team emergency meetup, systemd emergency meetup in room 1 (what else).
Lennart left his playtetrisd module UML screen and hurried to the meeting room.
- Lenny... we have a problem
- Guessed so, must be urgent...
- No, but it's grave. Microsoft upped their game. We have reports that touching wallpaper settings code can render the system unbootable.
- Oh. my. God. This means...
- This means their codebase is still waaay shittier than ours. They will make billions out of support while patches for pulseaudio and systemd are still flowing in, even when you insult their mothers and their whole family in their native tongue.
- Fuck fuck fuck I can't put more spaghetti in our code! we are getting to the point that nobody knows what it does anymore, and when we add useless code, the thing runs faster! We have reached peak shit!
- Yes, Microsoft has had decades to solve these problems, and they don't have to open the source to save face.
- Well, fuck them. I will reverse engineer the fucking whole win 3.11 and put it into my tetrisd. How about that?
- Let's cross our unit files and hope it works...
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