[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

[Chris Maltby]

Microsoft allows Windows drivers to update without a reboot or 
necessarily a system rollback image.

The real question is why (beyond supposed "efficiency") does Windows not 
sandbox driver code so that third-party bugs don't blue-screen the system?

Speedy updates against zero-day issues are a necessity for 
anti-virus/anti-intrusion systems, so they need that extra bit of 
failsafe support from the OS.

Chris

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From: 	David <dlochrin at aussiebb.com.au>
To: 	Stephen Loosley <stephenloosley at outlook.com>, link <link at anu.edu.au>
Date: 	Sun, July 21 2024 01:55:31am GMT+00:00
Subject: 	[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

> Haven't Microsoft considered the possibility of such an event?
>
> The UEFI boot system which has replaced BIOS in most Linux systems backs
>   up pre- and post-update images before & after any update, so a
> known good image can be booted immediately there's a problem.