Dell has their own instructions on making a bootable usb for bios updates:

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000145519/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-using-dell-diagnostic-deployment-package-dddp

I think it’s part of the windows sdk but yeah it’s free.

Just use a win pe boot environment.

Your experience is not typical.

Windows only updates once a month. Rarely there is an out of band patch.

Updating after install is long, but it is optional, and it only happens the one time you install. If you’re reinstalling often then you’re doing it wrong.

I haven’t seen multiple restarts in many years.

You can always roll back an update if something goes wrong

.net updates are the worst. They appear to compile on each machine but it usually happens as a background task after restarting a restart.

But other updates are fine if you haven’t missed the previous month. They install in the background with lower priority. They download from other devices on your network, or from other devices closer to you than Microsoft’s cdn to reduce internet transit.

If you miss a month it will need to download the entire update, usually 1gb in size. Otherwise they only download a minimal amount of files.

Hotpatching is probably coming to everyone as they made it free for most business use. Updating Windows then wont require a restart except for 1-2x per year.

No they aren’t.

Feature updates take the same amount of time as monthly updates. It’s been like this for years.

Surprising good for small companies that don’t want to deal with hardware maintenance but are already in the m365 ecosystem.

Updates for drivers, firmware, etc comes right from windows update and not from a 3rd party app like dell/hp/lenovo business-oriented devices do.

Oh sweet summer child…

I’m not sure what the problem is. His account is locked, but it’s not like he can’t still sign code and distribute it even if that means using a new account.

Edit: other articles point out that his company failed certification, and he’s not been able to reach support to find out why.

No. They will see that you’re using a vpn.

They might decide to record your traffic and save it until it can be decrypted.

Yeah I think a /c/all needs to be moderated to help keep out garbage and direct similar posts to a new /c of their own once they reach critical mass.

Lemmy could use an /c/all community default. It’s a catchall for things that don’t have a dedicated community yet. It helps create posts and discussions.

Store Outlook should be the same as Outlook, just with ads if not using a licensed account. I’m not sure how they are handling that, but I know they are trying to kill off all but one of the Outlook versions.

I’m guessing it’s one of two things:

It could be two shortcuts to outlook. One might actually be Outlook classic.

Another issue could be a dreaded dual mailbox scenario that occurs when an hybrid on-premises user account gets a mailbox in exchange online before their on-prem account has its attributes created. It’s annoying to deal with and fix.

I’m curious as to what the issue is and how they fix it. I would assume that latency and bandwidth are a big problem and they have WAN acceleration going on, which can cause some apps to bug out.

I actually helped Riberbed identify and fix a bug with Exchange optimization that took 4 years to fix. The tech I worked with for about a year when we identified it called me up 3 years later to tell me himself that they fixed and closed it.

Why not vantablack them? I thought they were already sending prototypes up that aren’t reflective and avoid the light pollution problem.

The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.

obviously this is marketing for arctic wolf, but their research and the information they provide in the blog post is interesting. Their EDR platform they talk about used to be Cylance, which they bought off of BlackBerry. Honestly BlackBerry fumbled that product after they bought it.

Hell yes. I wonder how many man-hours of strategy meetings MS had on their calendars to fend that decision off.

Maybe “it’s not needed yet” is more accurate.

It’s not ready yet. It’s good for some specific use cases but it’s not anything the typical end user needs.

It’s carrier level. Your isp could do the same with off the shelf decryption appliances. Basically you decrypt the traffic and block traffic that isn’t decrypted.

They basically retracted the article. There’s no windows 12.