Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On 1/4/25 8:06 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 3 Jan 2025 10:18:16 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On 2 Jan 2025 18:21:11 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 23:59:53 -0500, Paul wrote:
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People here have also achieved that (no updates) by breaking stuff
:-)

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Microsoft itself has now come up with an update that does this,
too--kills the ability to receive further updates. As I mentioned in
the posting that started this thread.

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Sigh! It's *not* "an update [which] kills the ability to receive
further updates". It's a corner case ...

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Which only started happening after a particular update.

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... the risk of getting the problem existed only for a very short time
and only in very uncommon scenarios.

 ['Convenient' silent snips duly noted.]
 

Only enough to affect say, a million people, perhaps ... ?

    I would say much, much fewer, thousands, if that many.
 But you, nor I, nor anyone else, are to know, especially not the
uninformed author of your 'alarming' reference.

A classical strategy of alarmist trolling is to toss out a seemingly huge number, but avoid context.  Here, the number is one (1) million, but the unmentioned context is out of 1.6 billion MS-Windows users.

Hardly worth worrying about, really ...

    Exactly. Glad you finally see the light!

Precisely, for even if its ~1M, as a percentage of the 1.6B user bas, its 1 out of 1600 users = 0.06% - which means ~99.94% were unaffected.
-hh