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Microsoft has been making quality assurance mistakes lately

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Re: Microsoft has been making quality assurance mistakes lately

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Yeah, this article is FUD. The Windows 10 piece is stupid - it's a pre-release OS, these things happen. It's why they haven't released the OS yet, so I'd say their QA process worked. Pre-release OSes don't go through the same level of QA - if you don't like it, you should use a supported OS. Second, with Exchange updates, there's kind of an unspoken understanding that there is no way MS can test every scenario their…

How long can you responsibly run Exchange on the internet after a security patch was released? The recent Drupal SQL injection [1] showed that attackers have databases of fingerprinted services, just waiting for an update that shows them how to exploit these systems. Reverse engineering the binary patches for Exchange and building a reliable exploit out of them probably takes longer than it did in the case of that SQ…

In the case of something like a corporate Exchange server, you can run an IDS/IPS system in front of them to block any specific exploits. Even then, enterprise configurations of Exchange are usually quite unique to the company, so there's a low likelihood of a security problem being exposed to the outside.

Re: Microsoft has been making quality assurance mistakes lately

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> I found it a bit irritating that there were no news about the various Microsoft update issues on HN last week. Why didn't you post one? (Edit: I hope that didn't sound accusatory; I mean it as a cordial invitation to post good stories that you think belong on HN.)

I read about it only in german IT news portals like http://www.heise.de . I really like HN, it replaces /. for me. Therefor I try to not submit controversial posts (is it in US?). I assume it's not optimal to submit Google Translate links of german articles (like my links above).

Yes, that's not optimal; the only exception is when there isn't yet a substantive English version of a major story, or something particularly interesting.

I don't think this particular story would have been unduly controversial, but more importantly, thanks for your concern for the quality of stories on HN.

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