MS Patch Corrupts Compressed Files

[jdong]

Well, it looks like it's Microsoft's turn to have their QA department questioned....

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/09/11/1342224.shtml

Better check out those compressed files there!



So, bad QA affects even the biggest of companies. It's not just Ubuntu -- Microsoft does it too. And they've done it several times before, too.


EDIT: Looking at the timeline for this patch:

August 8, 2006: First release
August 24, 2006: Re-release of patch, first time it didn't correct all the vulnerabilities.
August 24, 2006: Reports surface in newsgroups of corruption, confirmed that it is caused by this update.
Sept 11, 2006: Slashdot coverage, no word from Microsoft yet.

[insane_alien]

at least the recent breakage of X didn't cause data corruption which is a bit more debilitating than loss of a GUI for a few hours.