Comments on: Stampede for patches disrupts Microsoft update site

A crush of millions of Windows users trying to patch their computers overwhelms Microsoft's update service for several hours after new security fixes are made available.

When will they learn ?

Nonprofit group Pathfinder International encountered delays in updating its Microsoft computers Wednesday, said Kevin Greene, senior network administrator for the group.
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"Microsoft's decision to release updates to 90 percent of the computers on the planet on the same day, coupled with its announced desire for us to all update on the same day, places a considerable burden on Microsoft to ensure it has the bandwidth, equipment and other infrastructure necessary to ensure that we can do that efficiently," Greene said. "My experience this morning, and in the last round of updates in February, indicates that the infrastructure is lacking."

Certain open-source OS distributions are already testing patch distribution using BitTorrent.

BitTorrent protocol spread the bandwidth load to the clients, while ensuring the integrity of the content, so a system which requires a lot of bandwidth may serve more clients than the size of its pipe.

But the last time I tested Microsoft's SUS (Software Update Services), it was still rather buggy. I wonder when we'll see things like this in it.

Let's see Microsoft's "innovation" here.

testing..

well, looks like even harmless HTML tags are not welcomed here :) pretty plain at the moment isn't it ?

sorry if my previous post is really hard to read.

Windows Update ON CD - FREE - worldwide delivery

Thought it'd be of interest to a lot of people:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp

FYI, HTH.

[eaglesfly47]

SP2......road to a nightmare

I downloaded SP2 and ended up taking my CP to a tech to get rid of it. The update caused utter havoc on my system. I will go Netscape, AOL, whatever it takes so I never have to go this the SP2 horror again. The security is SO tight that one can't enjoy their own computer. I tried to change the security ratings. It was impossible. As soon as I would change it, five minutes later I would go back and SP2 would change it back to what "IT" wanted. I could not even to into Dummiers.com without SP2 blocking all the pictures. There was always nothing but a white box with a little red "x". Every web page I logged onto would require my password to view. A lot of web pages I tried to view (trustworthy, wholesome sites) would give me a white page stating I wasn't allowed to view it. I spent most of my computer time jumping through all SP2's time-consuming hoops to perform a simple task. I would constantly have to type in all my trust-worthy sites (URLs), only to go back to type another one and find SP2 had eliminated all the URLs I had typed in. NEVER again. Microsoft has become a computer cop. It won't let me download much of anything from it's critical updates. It states I need to download SP2 to get what I need.