Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?

[Warrior]

These people need to read about QA and move on. What, do they sit around all day writing up these silly scenarios so they can put out a meaningless article?

If Microsoft's QA department is anything like my company's, you can be sure they'll miss everything, and burn all the company's money while doing it.

It's probably good that it's not then.

[iago]

In any case, let's take an example of Sony's recent 2.40 patch for their Playstation3, it bricked a lot of PS3s. Did this mean the end of the world? No it simply meant they put out a corrective patch.

It was news to me that corrective patches unbricked things.

They do...when you send your console to Sony so they can fix it.  Also, the 2.41 patch was a fixed version of the 2.40 patch for people that had not yet installed 2.40.

"Sending it to Sony" != "corrective patch".

[rabbit]

The corrective patch 2.41 was 2.40 updated to not brick, not a patch for 2.40 to unbrick (since you can't patch a brick).

[iago]

The corrective patch 2.41 was 2.40 updated to not brick, not a patch for 2.40 to unbrick (since you can't patch a brick).

Which is exactly what Joe was saying, so there we go.