● 02.12.11

●● Vista 7 Patches Break Crucial Software

Posted in Microsoft, Security, VMware, Windows at 4:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Patches for Windows 7 leave users without access to VMware

A SERIOUS glitch from VMware/Microsoft has proven to be a pain to Windows users/administrators. “Non-free Software Provide Multiple Points of Failure” is one way of putting it:

I am often accused of encouraging use of GNU/Linux and thin clients with a single point of failure vulnerability, the server or network.

This is said in reference to reports such as this one: “Windows fix on Patch Tuesday ‘breaks’ VMware software”

VMware is telling customers that two Windows 7 security patches have left the VMware View desktop virtualization client unable to access the View Connection Server, which brokers the connection between a user’s computer and a virtual desktop.This led Gartner virtualization analyst Chris Wolf to write a blog post titled “Windows 7 Update Breaks VMware View Client” that says this week’s event is “an important lesson in BYOD” deployments that let workers bring their own devices to work.

Early adopters of Vista 7 may gradually discover that it is a risky option. Needless to say, GNU/Linux users are unaffected in this case. █

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