What the heck is going on with Microsoft? After terrible feedback on its intentional omission of its iconic start button on Windows 8, Microsoft snivels and releases a start button on Windows 8.1. Kind of like saying “let them eat cake!”<\/p>\n
But, who was the idiot at Microsoft who decided that when you click the start button on Windows 8, you don’t get a start menu, you get the START SCREEN! The very thing most people using a mouse and keyboard hate the most about Windows 8.<\/p>\n
The only use the new start button on Windows 8.1 has is when you right click you get several items like Control Panel, Computer, Shut Down and Shut Down options, and more things like that — but your programs, nope.<\/p>\n
We’ve always recommended leaving Automatic Updates on and set to automatically download updates and install them. We can no longer recommend that setting. Instead we recommend you change your update settings to “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them”. After just having my work computer fried by a bad Windows Update, I’m getting quite cynical. Does anyone at Microsoft know what they’re doing.<\/p>\n
Yikes…I’m off on a rant. Let me calm down. Whew!<\/p>\n
OK, now for the story on the new botched Windows Updates. Please do follow the link at the end of the article and read the entire story. You’ll be shaking your head too, I’m betting!<\/p>\n
From InfoWorld…<\/p>\n
“Two Black Tuesday patches — MS 13-052 and MS 13-057 — and last month’s nonsecurity patch KB 2821895 cause a variety of problems.<\/em><\/p>\n Microsoft’s patching problems have hit a new low, with three botched patches now in desperate need of attention. MS 13-052 is supposed to plug security holes in .Net Framework and Silverlight, but it has problems getting along with Configuration Manager 2012 and ConfigMgr 2007), as well as with plug-ins running under Microsoft CRM 2011. MS 13-057 causes black bands to appear at the top of Windows Media videos, and it still hasn’t been fixed — although Microsoft has finally acknowledged the problem. The KB 2821895 Windows 8\/Windows RT patch causes false System File Checker reports and hangs; Microsoft acknowledges the problem in its KB article, but the patch is still available.<\/em><\/p>\n Somebody please tell me who is in charge?…”<\/em><\/p>\n Read the entire article here.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What the heck is going on with Microsoft? After terrible feedback on its intentional omission of its iconic start button on Windows 8, Microsoft snivels and releases a start button on Windows 8.1. Kind of like saying “let them eat cake!” But, who was the idiot at Microsoft who decided that when you click the start button on\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5945,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}