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▲Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error (theregister.com)

45 points by robaato 4 hours ago | 10 comments

Animats 3 hours ago [-]

"or paying for the required license?"

Where was the acceptance of a contract requiring that? Microsoft just gave people a free upgrade.

PittleyDunkin 42 minutes ago [-]

I imagine the definition of "upgrade" depends on the needs of the customer. The merchant of the license is inherently unable to evaluate this. Installing software without explicit consent, especially not-functionally-equivalent-software, is inherently wrong.

causality0 11 minutes ago [-]

It's amazing to me that we're all so chill about a company in Redmond having root access to our PCs because they pinky-swear they will never misuse it.

ranger_danger 8 minutes ago [-]

And yet when you call it what it is (a backdoor) people get highly offended. Same thing with ubuntu snaps or really anything that updates automatically.

gnabgib 3 hours ago [-]

Discussion (75 points, 18 hours ago, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057451

ahoka 3 hours ago [-]

“installs itself” = a 3rd party patch management product installed the update

Brian_K_White 2 hours ago [-]

A 3rd party tool did what MS told it to do.

heraldgeezer 2 hours ago [-]

Or if you auto approve security updates. As is common. Azure VMs even default to auto-update pulls from MS.

https://imgur.com/a/RvEx3yn

troseph 3 hours ago [-]

David Attenborough voiced "Sysadmins are cautious by nature" in my head.

mattsimpson 23 minutes ago [-]

We got an urgent notice today from our central IT group warning of this catastrophic screw up of epic proportions, and I could hardly believe it.

This is way worse than the Crowdstrike debacle.

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