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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlanT" data-source="post: 517874" data-attributes="member: 30185">All the companies I worked for had a lab in which they loaded updates to test before applying the update to production systems.  This included microsoft updates.  It was primarily to determine the impact to other critical systems, not to test microsoft's update.  It sounds like the airline industry and hospitals treat their critical systems like an iphone update that is done automatically as soon as it's pushed to the public.  Penny wise and pound foolish.  This bad practice cost the economy billions.  There is such a push to get the "latest and greatest" there is little software quality assurance.  Companies don't want to spend the money on a good QA department.BTW, they also don't want to spend the money on good security for our data.</blockquote>