Comments on: Automatic Updates are Bad, See Skype http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/ Recent college grad, .NET developer, and web enthusiast Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Zak Nicola http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Zak Nicola Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:03:21 +0000 http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/#comment-183 I work for a web hosting company that provides a "wysiwyg" editor for the clients sites. That editor doesn't work in IE7. Thankfully my company is smart and doesn't allow auto updates. Unfortunately, our 30,000+ clients aren't that smart. It took about 3 months to fix the issue, and we are still getting clients calling in about the issue to this day. We have since rolled out an newer version that works with IE7, but the majority of our clients are still on the older version using a user agent string utility to work around the issue. Good post, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that give full trust to M$ on their auto updates. I work for a web hosting company that provides a “wysiwyg” editor for the clients sites. That editor doesn’t work in IE7. Thankfully my company is smart and doesn’t allow auto updates. Unfortunately, our 30,000+ clients aren’t that smart. It took about 3 months to fix the issue, and we are still getting clients calling in about the issue to this day. We have since rolled out an newer version that works with IE7, but the majority of our clients are still on the older version using a user agent string utility to work around the issue.

Good post, I’m sure there are plenty of people out there that give full trust to M$ on their auto updates.

]]> By: Linda Jenikinson http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Linda Jenikinson Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:32:00 +0000 http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/#comment-180 I so agree with you. I am completely against any kind of automatic updates. The more unknowns you let into your computer, the more problems you are going to have, IMO. I so agree with you. I am completely against any kind of automatic updates. The more unknowns you let into your computer, the more problems you are going to have, IMO.

]]> By: Colorstruck http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Colorstruck Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:55:08 +0000 http://www.cyroot.com/blog/2007/08/20/automatic-updates-are-bad-see-skype/#comment-179 Brent: I'm with ya'. Some of our departments (not mine thankfully) got burned by Microsoft "patches" a couple of years ago that resulted in server crashes. We now have procedures in place to perform extensive testing. Thanks for dropping by. I've been away for a bit but will return soon with some updated stuff. Later. Brent: I’m with ya’. Some of our departments (not mine thankfully) got burned by Microsoft “patches” a couple of years ago that resulted in server crashes. We now have procedures in place to perform extensive testing.

Thanks for dropping by. I’ve been away for a bit but will return soon with some updated stuff. Later.

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