Hi all.
I was mucking about on the redmondmag and redmondpie sites.
Redmondpie is more discounts and hacked codes for things redmond mag is
more on other things.
A few articles.
1. croudstrike
https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2024/07/24/CrowdStrike-Blames-Internal-Testing-Faults-for-Mass-Outage.aspx
So from what I gott, major updates are human and ai tested.
Smaller updates are auttomatically tested with validation software.
This shows that automated tools don’t always get it right though.
Though this does prompt me on how do antivirus and security deffs work
released several times a day I suspect a lot of that is automated.
Even so, you do wander.
Next is this.
https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2024/07/22/Microsoft-Releases-CrowdStrike-Outage-Recovery-Tool.aspx
This has been covered in other publications.
The next is this.
https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2024/06/10/Microsoft-Retires-the-Windows-Subsystem-for-Android.aspx
Exactly why is this going on is unknown.
Ms likes to retire stuff that seems to be good in my opinion.
I got on ms music with mp3s when I got 5 albums.
In fact I spent a lot of cash on the ms digital drm free mp3 system.
So when they ended it well there isn’t any reason to get that sort of
thing on microsoft.
Its another shame but there you go.
Next is tthis
https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2024/07/15/The-Worst-Features-in-the-New-Outlook.aspx
All I can say is that if you want outlook you best gett office.
For the rest of you mozilla thunderbird and in fact the mozilla programs
in general kick ass because of their multiplatform architecture.
I mean the same interface on linux apple and windows and droid I think.
Next is this one.
https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2024/07/19/Turning-the-Crowdstrike-Outage-into-a-Disaster-Recovery-Tabletop-Exercise.aspx
Unsure exactly but a worse case scenario traning tool could be
appropriate for this one.
I mean a cyber hack may happen quite probable.