Microsoft on Tuesday released a slew of patches for Windows and Office, but a glitch prevented the company from pushing the updates out automatically. The patches, which include critical fixes for both Office and Windows, can be manually downloaded from Microsoft’s Web site, and the company said it hopes the more-automated tools will have the patch available later on Tuesday. Microsoft said that its technical teams “have been working around the clock” to solve the updating problems.
Why are they always working around the clock? Seriously, how often do the poor Microsoft devs work around the clock so that the PR people can say that? It’s not like you can possibly be effective after 12 hours of intellectual work anyway.
Or it means there are always devs on staff working on it. It doesn’t mean the SAME devs are working X number of hours straight.
Its amazing how contempt for MS is revealed in a rather idiotic debate over a familiar euphamism.
Working around the clock simply means “Working very hard to fix the problem” For crying out loud.
And NO, I am not really sitting here CRYING OUT LOUD! It’s another euphamism for frustration.
Well said (apart for “euphemism”. Sorry for nitpicking).
Could be, but I’m not seeing how that would end up working out either. You’ve got a problem which could fit into one of two categories:
1.) A small error in the implementation. In this case people could spend hours looking and parallel their efforts, but realistically it’s going to be a matter of time for all of them. They can’t trade off, they’re not shovelling coal.
2.) An error in the design. In this case I could see a team working around the clock in such a manner, but I doubt they actually would. I’d say if this happened it’s because there’s a general preference by some to work at 2AM on the problem.
I’m thinking “working around the clock” is PR speak for “we care.”
They might actually be working around the clock since the patches are live on the support site, and are probably being reverse-engineered / decompiled right by black-hat types (I mean ‘security researchers’). I hope they’re rushing (Windows Update runs on akamai… can we blame them?)
Seems like for all their vaunt and breath, Microsoft must have devs working around the clock ALL the time. That must make it a horridly bad place to work. Specially if your a mission critical developer (arent they all?). We Ubuntu users dont have Devs working round the clock….wonder what that would be like? Hmmmmmm…
Maybe that’s why there are so many bugs (in MS software…): too tired to spot ’em.
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Be nice.
Small glitches can always happen. As a gentoo user small glitches with portage are a part of my every day.
Glitches was also a part of updating software when using Fedora Core 2 and 3 – and they were worse than this glitch.
So be nice. Microsoft is bad alright, but please – only reasonable critique.
Well, technically Ubuntu (and Microsoft, etc etc) might indeed have developers working ’round the clock… if you’ve got developers in Seattle, Paris, Capetown, Istanbul, Mumbai, Tokyo, and Anchorage, there just might be someone working at any hour of the day.
Remember, “the sun never sets on the British Empire”… and all that.
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Tuesday isnt a patch on what it used to be lol
If the update site runs on akamai then its a wonder it works at all.