The cost of cheap and/or underqualified staff?

Summary: Microsoft is once again bricking Vista 7, demonstrating lack of reliability or very low quality programming

Jason Evangelho said that "New Windows 7 Patch Is Effectively Malware". This is how he put it in the headline at Forbes, showing just how "professional" Microsoft has become. It is so "people-ready" that it bricks computers. A Microsoft booster told the story like this: "Microsoft withdraws bad Windows 7 update that broke future Windows 7 updates". Actually, it's not just about future updates. It's a a lot worse than that. Vista 7 becomes like a brick, unable to change. The full details are found further down in smaller fonts:

One of this week's Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 7 has been withdrawn after some users discovered that it blocked installation of software containing digital signatures, including first- and third-party software, and even other Windows updates.

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With Windows Update so important to keeping Windows users secure, a loss of confidence would be very bad news. But if this kind of problem continues, that seems like an inevitable outcome. While IT departments might be able to test updates in a lab before deploying them, providing some protection against faulty fixes, home users have no such luxury. Users have to have confidence that installing an update won't break their machine. Broken, withdrawn updates shake that confidence.

Years ago (more than half a decade back) we warned that Vista 7 was basically just a lump of hype, perceptions distortion, and shameless lies. Now we see more evidence of this.

Microsoft Peter's praises of Vista 7 and other Microsoft spyware continue nonetheless. Even when there is a serious problem he is belittling the problem rather than giving Microsoft a hard time. That is the role of Microsoft boosters. "Botched KB 3004394 triggers error messages, but no response from Microsoft" said the heading from IDG, showing that Microsoft is silent on such a serious matter. They're speechless! Years ago we warned that a lot of key Windows developers were leaving and then often being replaced by cheap or poorly qualified staff. We said this would harm the quality of patches, not just of future versions of Windows. We were right.

Perhaps it is time to switch off Microsoft boosters like Microsoft Peter. Over the years he has done little more than mock Microsoft's critics, including regulators (he still publishes revisionism about Microsoft's browser abuses), so if we ever pursue the truth, we need to steer away from Microsoft's media moles. ⬆