Windows Genuine Stupidity
Ed Bott is worried about where Microsoft is taking the WGA program, and I don't blame him. The non-denials from Redmond are none too encouraging either. The measured walk toward 1980's style IBM bureaucratic stupidity seems to be transitioning to a jog. If they actually start requiring that you have the upgrade system on, then they'll have broken into a full-blown dash.
Can you imagine the hair pulling in IT departments as they try to sort out driver problems after a blown upgrade that they couldn't test first?
Comments
[Tom Sattler] June 27, 2006 15:16:27.257
Test? Why test? If Microsoft certifies that it works, shouldn't that be good enough for anyone?
And they wonder why Linux is such a threat to them.......
[Greg Kujawa] June 27, 2006 15:58:39.874
At least they've made _some_ strides the past several years. I recall being a systems admin at a remote call center back in the late 1990's when they released Windows NT 4.0 Server service pack 6. This wasn't thoroughly tested apparently and our company rolled it out to all servers without testing it. I assumed our corporate IT had tested it. They in turn assumed Microsoft tested it. This service pack essentially broke TCP/IP and left servers "deaf." Microsoft promptly release service pack 6a. Ah, those were the days.