Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Updates That BROKE Your PC”.
You know those prescription drug commercials that list so many side effects that the medicine actually sounds worse than whatever it was supposed to treat well in the software world. We end up with the same thing more often than you might think, where an update that’s supposed to make your Gadget work better ends up just breaking it. Here are four Infamous examples of updates that went terribly wrong, starting with everyone’s favorite operating system. Good old Windows. Microsoft is certainly no stranger to royally cheesing off its users, but the botched launches of Windows.
98 me Vista heck, even Windows, 11, getting plenty of press coverage, but in 2012 there was a lesser-known glitch that frustrated lots of people at a very inopportune time. Microsoft pushed out an update to the.net framework, which is basically a programming ecosystem for Windows. To make writing programs easier.net was already Infamous for botched updates, but this one was particularly egregious as it screwed up installations of Turbo Tax and extremely popular program for preparing tax returns in the United States, specifically users that installed the bad update, found it impossible to print Out their tax forms, the kicker was that this update was pushed out just before April 15th, the U.S tax filing deadline. Fortunately there was a pretty easy work around, but seeing as this wasn’t the first time, a.net update broke tax software.
I can’t imagine the. However, many thousands of accountants that use Windows were super happy about it. Moving on we’re going to go to 2013, when the PlayStation 3 ruled the console World Gamers who owned a PS3 with a larger hard drive, got a very rude surprise when Sony pushed a firmware update that bricked their systems entirely. Ironically, Sony promised that the update would improve system stability, but shortly after it was released, the botched updates spawned a nearly 100 page thread on Sony’s forums, with people desperate for a fix.
Of course. Bad updates do happen, and people might have been a bit more understanding if Sony hadn’t made the situation worse by allegedly recommending that a user send off their crippled PlayStation for service at a cost of 100 out of pocket. Sony did at least push out a fix. A couple of weeks later, but you’d think they would have learned something from the fact that they were just sued four years earlier for another update that also bricked a bunch of PlayStation 3s.
Of course, there was one glitch that was a heck of a lot more alarming than a busted PS3 or some late tax forms, and we’ll tell you about that one right after we think I fix it for sponsoring this. Video Father’s Day is quickly approaching and iFixit has gifts for dads at all price points. If you’re looking for The Ultimate Gift check out ifixit’s Manta kit, it has 112 steel bits and comes complete with standard bits like Phillips and Flathead, but also Torx security, torques, TriPoint and game bits. It even includes two aluminum screwdriver handles a hefty quarter.
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A bug took out the entire ground Communication System, meaning that the ISS had no way to talk to Mission Control back on Earth. Not only that one of the crew members reported that they lost access to other crucial data about how the spacecraft was functioning. Fortunately, they were able to get everything working later.
On that same day, funnily enough, the ISS switched a bunch of the laptops on board from Windows XP to Debian Linux, just a few months later for stability and reliability, guess they didn’t want to take any more chances. Finally, let’s Circle back to Sony for an update that was so bad. Most people actually considered it to be a virus back in 2005 Sony’s music division built digital Rights Management into their audio CDs, super surprising, given how popular file sharing was becoming.
But Sony went way too far by including software that actually updated the operating systems code to prevent users from copying songs, and these modifications were hard to reverse and created serious security vulnerabilities. Actually, that does kind of sound like a virus, so Sony had basically put root kits on millions of computers, but then, when people found out about it, Sony’s response was to release an uninstall program that didn’t actually uninstall anything and just made the security problems worse. After multiple lawsuits, including one from the government of Texas, Sony, was forced to relent and give customers up to a hundred and fifty dollars to fix any computer damage that their root kits caused. Ironically, Sony used copyrighted software as part of its rootkit without permission, which is shocking.
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