▲Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error(theregister.com)
44 points by robaato 3 hours ago | 5 comments
▲Animats 2 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 36 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 5 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 3 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.
▲ahoka 2 hours ago
“installs itself” = a 3rd party patch management product installed the update
▲Brian_K_White 1 hour 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

▲gnabgib 2 hours ago
Discussion (75 points, 18 hours ago, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057451
▲mattsimpson 17 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.

▲troseph 2 hours ago
David Attenborough voiced "Sysadmins are cautious by nature" in my head.