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Andrew M. Saucci, Jr. wrote:
> It is getting to be almost impossible to maintain a server these
> days. The speed of updates in many cases has become simply unacceptable
> and
> intolerable. I'm talking about a brand-new server with 6 GB of RAM here,
> and
> I've spent hours and hours installing updates that just sit there while
> their progress meters do absolutely nothing, and the CPU doesn't even show
> any activity. Microsoft must do something about this or else
> administrators
> are simply going to say NO to updates, no matter how important, because a
> server just can't be kept in an unstable state that long. Automatic
> Updates
> doesn't cut it for servers; it's just too risky. Server updates and
> downtime
> have to be planned and scheduled in tight windows, not open-ended,
> ill-defined extended periods of time. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft get it?
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