It was inevitable.\u00a0 MVPs have privately voiced concerns to Microsoft about the quality of patches coming out of Sustained Engineering.\u00a0 That feedback went somewhere up the chain and out the back door.<\/p>\n
Then after many months and the July 2013 disasters, some of us decided to talk about it publicly on social media.\u00a0 Some Microsoft people in Redmond agree with our concerns, expressing embarrassment that their hard work is being diminished by a laughable resource planning policy decision.\u00a0 Once again, no notable changes to the CA-style \u201ctesting\u201d.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019ve just read on Silicon Republic<\/a> that MVP Susan Bradley (AKA the SBS Diva<\/a>) has written to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to address her concerns.<\/p>\n “On behalf of everyone in this community, may I respectfully request that you assign someone in a management position to investigate what is going on with quality control with patch testing lately?” Bradley asked Ballmer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A certain negative response from a few<\/span> <\/em>Microsoft people to Susan\u2019s letter is reported in the article.\u00a0 I do recognise that experience.<\/p>\n I\u2019m glad this has gone \u201cmain stream\u201d and been picked up by the media.\u00a0 To be honest, I think we have to embarrass whatever executive is responsible for this mess into making a much-needed change.<\/p>\n EDIT:<\/p>\n Mary Jo Foley just pinged me on Twitter to let me know that Larry Seltzer had previously posted a similar story on ZDnet<\/a>.\u00a0 And don’t forget that myself and Hans Vredevoort also raised issues in Windows Server and System Center in July.\u00a0 To be honest, I think there’s a mindset with the power-that-is that will only increase the cost of testing if sales are hit.\u00a0 The power to make a change is in your hands.<\/p>\n EDIT:<\/p>\n And Rod Trent also posted a story on this problem on Windows IT Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n EDIT:<\/p>\n Add Redmond Magazine<\/a> to the list.<\/p>\n It was inevitable.\u00a0 MVPs have privately voiced concerns to Microsoft about the quality of patches coming out of Sustained Engineering.\u00a0 That feedback went somewhere up the chain and out the back door. Then after many months and the July 2013 disasters, some of us decided to talk about it publicly on social media.\u00a0 Some Microsoft … Continue reading “Complaints About Bad Microsoft Patches Goes Mainstream”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[185,126],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-microsoft","tag-wsus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t