you know those prescription drug commercials that list so many side effects that the medicine actually
sounds worse than whatever it was supposed to treat well in the software
world we end up with the same thing more often than you might think where an
update that's supposed to make your Gadget work better ends up just breaking
it here are four Infamous examples of
updates that went terribly wrong starting with everyone's favorite
operating system good old Windows Microsoft is certainly no stranger to
royally cheesing off its users but the botched launches of Windows 98 me Vista
heck even Windows 11 getting plenty of press coverage but in 2012 there was a
lesser-known glitch that frustrated lots of people at a very inopportune time
Microsoft pushed out an update to the.net framework which is basically a
programming ecosystem for Windows to make writing programs easier.net was
already Infamous for botched updates but this one was particularly egregious as
it screwed up installations of Turbo Tax and extremely popular program for
preparing tax returns in the United States specifically users that installed the
bad update found it impossible to print out their tax forms the kicker was that
this update was pushed out just before April 15th the U.S tax filing deadline
fortunately there was a pretty easy work around but seeing as this wasn't the
first time a.net update broke tax software I can't imagine the however
many thousands of accountants that use Windows were super happy about it moving
on we're going to go to 2013 when the PlayStation 3 ruled the console World
Gamers who owned a PS3 with a larger hard drive got a very rude surprise when
Sony pushed a firmware update that bricked their systems entirely
ironically Sony promised that the update would improve system stability but
shortly after it was released the botched update spawned a nearly 100 page
thread on Sony's forums with people desperate for a fix of course bad
updates do happen and people might have been a bit more understanding if Sony
hadn't made the situation worse by allegedly recommending that a user send
off their crippled PlayStation for service at a cost of one hundred dollars
out of pocket so he did at least push out a fix a couple of weeks later but
you'd think they would have learned something from the fact that they were just sued four years earlier for another
update that also bricked a bunch of PlayStation 3s of course there was one
glitch that was a heck of a lot more alarming than a busted PS3 or some late
tax forms and we'll tell you about that one right after we think I fix it for
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uncomfortable glitch occurred on the International Space Station of all
places also back in 2013. the ISS gets
its own software updates on an annual basis and during one of those routine
updates a bug took out the entire ground Communication System meaning that the
ISS had no way to talk to Mission Control back on Earth not only that one
of the crew members reported that they lost access to other crucial data about
how the spacecraft was functioning fortunately they were able to get
everything working later on that same day funnily enough the ISS switched a bunch
of the laptops on board from Windows XP to Debian Linux just a few months later
for stability and reliability guess they didn't want to take any more
chances finally let's Circle back to Sony for an
update that was so bad most people actually considered it to be a virus
back in 2005 Sony's music division built
digital Rights Management into their audio CDs super surprising given how popular file
sharing was becoming but Sony went way too far by including software that
actually updated the operating system's code to prevent users from copying songs
and these modifications were hard to reverse and created serious security
vulnerabilities actually that does kind of sound like a virus so Sony had
basically put root kits on millions of computers but then when people found out
about it Sony's response was to release an uninstall program that didn't
actually uninstall anything and just made the security problems worse after
multiple lawsuits including one from the government of Texas Sony was forced to
relent and give customers up to a hundred and fifty dollars to fix any
computer damage that their root kits caused ironically Sony used copyrighted
software as part of its rootkit without permission which is shocking as I know
there's never been any hypocrisy from Big Tech when it comes to protecting
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