From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:40:21 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:9k2j3v46qc6l7tiqrogk9hvqscboj0bv5c{at}4ax.com...
>
>> My selfish viewpoint: It is (e.g.)  Microsoft's product, let them test
>> test it.  They charge me enough for software without requiring me to
>> test updates that do no more than fix holes in the products they sold
>> me in the first place.
>
>I would expect major releases to get the testing they get now but I wouldn't
>expect a monthly build to get any more testing than the hotfixes do now. I
>would however expect the continuous testing to continously fix bugs as well
>as security issues in each monthly build.

Then you prefer that the onus of testing the hypothetical monthly builds to
rest on the customer?  Given the breadth of hardware/software
configurations out there, I suppose that's the only practical way to do it.

I am all for your idea of a way to roll back hotfixes and patches.  It
shouldn't be that hard for MS to come up with a way to do so.

Further, I think it is ludicrous that application patches can update my OS.
 That only serves to increase the chances of patch-induced problems.

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