Microsoft and Its Post Security Posture
October 1, 2021
Windows 11 seems like a half-baked pineapple upside down cake. My mother produced some spectacular versions of baking missteps. There was the SolarWinds’ version which had gaps everywhere, just hot air and holes. Then there was the Exchange Server variant. I exploded and only the hardiest ants would chow down on that disaster.
I thought about her baking adventures when I read “Microsoft Says Azure Users Will Have to Patch these Worrying Security Flaws Themselves.” Betty Crocker took the same approach when my beloved mother nuked a dessert.
Here’s the passage that evoked a Proustian memory:
instead of patching all affected Azure services, Microsoft has put an advisory stating that while it’ll update six of them, seven others must be updated by users themselves.
Let’s hope there’s a Sara Lee cake around to save the day for those who botch the remediation or just skip doing the baking thing.
Half baked? Yeah, and terrible.
Stephen E Arnold, October 1, 2021
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