Microsoft certainly didn’t inherit this approach from the software vendors that came before it. In the days before Microsoft, the approach to visibility was much different – and much better.

The team described the July 10 Windows patches as causing a software "regression." A software regression is a software patch that stops things from working, according to Wikipedia's definition.

Industry Articles Building a software test and regression plan - July 23, 2009 By Darryl Koivisto and Deepak Shankar, Mirabilis Design Embedded.com (07/20/09, 07:54:00 PM EDT) Coming up with a Test ...

An announcement last week by Microsoft's Customer Service and Support team indicated that Windows patches from Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" release may have caused SQL Server failures after ...

Microsoft's Customer Service and Support Team offered some assurance that these newer released Windows software updates will fix the SQL Server problems, saying that "we have had multiple customers ...