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So what now ? Should/does the author wait getting some traction on Hacker News and hopefully be noticed by dev at Microsoft, or is there some way to provide Microsoft directly these data, skipping Tier-1 support ? The author seem to be working at Google, so he might get some leverage from that, but what about Random Joe ? Keep enjoying the bug "forever", I guess ?
> This problem has been reported to Microsoft and they are investigating.
When I saw his workstation specs, I thought, thats the exact same one I have at work! Then I checked the bottom, yep, he's at Google too.
The terrifying result of having ABI compatibility with the first commercially successful system of its kind from the '80s. Granted, they aren't doing themselves any favours with their new straight-jacket style application ABI.
So what now ? Should/does the author wait getting some traction on Hacker News and hopefully be noticed by dev at Microsoft, or is there some way to provide Microsoft directly these data, skipping Tier-1 support ? The author seem to be working at Google, so he might get some leverage from that, but what about Random Joe ? Keep enjoying the bug "forever", I guess ?
So the answer to your question is: wait until they're done investigation and possibly release a patch.
So what now ? Should/does the author wait getting some traction on Hacker News and hopefully be noticed by dev at Microsoft, or is there some way to provide Microsoft directly these data, skipping Tier-1 support ? The author seem to be working at Google, so he might get some leverage from that, but what about Random Joe ? Keep enjoying the bug "forever", I guess ?
Did you read the article? The bug was already submitted to Microsoft and they are investigating. So the answer to your question is: wait until they're done investigation and possibly release a patch.
So what now ? Should/does the author wait getting some traction on Hacker News and hopefully be noticed by dev at Microsoft, or is there some way to provide Microsoft directly these data, skipping Tier-1 support ? The author seem to be working at Google, so he might get some leverage from that, but what about Random Joe ? Keep enjoying the bug "forever", I guess ?
Typical example: https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-... basic problem that has been there many many years. For this one there are workarounds but many others there are not.
The only real long-term solution is supporting competitive products.
I grew up on the Commodore 64 (1 Core, 1 hyper-thread :-), almost 1 MHz clock freq, almost 64 K usable RAM). The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers cou…
so basically a fork-bomb. I think Linux can still buckle under one, nothing that obscene...