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Are We Too Dependent on Microsoft? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago
  1. Who determines which security updates are critical? In windows case it's ultimately Microsoft, if they say this update is critical it will get installed on your machines whether you like it or not.
  2. The update process in Linux needs to be triggered manually, so it's a big difference. No one external to your company can say "that computer will get this new software NOW", and that's the point you're missing.

In answer to the other dit answer, if all of those machines are windows they were all affected by the update, so having secondary or tertiary machines is pointless because all of them failed at the same time when an external source decided to install new software on all your computers.