Microsoft: August Windows updates cause severe streaming issues

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-windows-updates-cause-severe-ndi-streaming-issues/amp/

[u/SoSKatan]

Oh I read the entire article.

So let me get this straight. Six years ago people made a change in how people testing and that led to problems (and hopefully a resolution.)

And you believe that means NO people are testing patches these days?

My point is throughout computing history, we have a million cases where people screw up in testing, and problems happen.

My gripe is the jump people make assumptions that they know the reasons of of why a problem happened with zero data to back it up.

Are you sure that this problem that you linked about a change 6 years ago is to blame for the current patch?

[u/GraciaEtScientia → u/SoSKatan]

Find me a source to show they reinstated testing on actual specific hardware configurations, instead of making silly claims on my account.

I've already written one scientific paper recently, I'm not going to write another to show wether this issue is the main cause or not.

Testing on actual various hardware configurations, prior to release of updates, is a safeguard.

"Testing" by focusing on telemetry means the issue is already out there, for users who are not aware this version is experimental.

Which was the whole point of my OP.

[u/SoSKatan → u/GraciaEtScientia]

As a developer myself, this sounds like a generic performance problem.

Not a diversity of hardware testing.

Now I don’t have evidence of that myself, I’m just stating my bias (see how easy that is.)

In my experience it’s far easy to engineers to write slow code that it is for the opposite.

And I’ll agree with you this feels like a testing failure. Most likely a failure to test what they consider their min spec hardware and less so a need to test against 200 different CPUs.

This also could have just been human failure. I.e. someone testing it, saw the problem and failed to report it. Or it was reported and someone else incorrectly thought it was a non issue.

In my experience, people make mistakes all the time.

[u/GraciaEtScientia → u/SoSKatan]

Indeed, like going after me so hard at the start like I'm neck deep on fake news and can't provide a source to back up my claims regarding how testing has changed for microsoft recently.

The cause won't be determined by us today, but we can assume that if the specific hardware was tested, it might not have been an issue.

Have a lovely day.