-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2016 02:43 PM, jim bell wrote:
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft is trying to force Windows 10 on just about everyone. On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 07:36:59AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
Microsoft is trying to force Windows 10 on just about everyone. http://www.howtogeek.com/241329/upgrade-now-or-upgrade-tonight-h ow-microsoft-has-aggressively-pushed-windows-10-to-everyone/>
lol. According to the theregister, m$ crashed (not sure if in the cloud) and they couldn't restore from backup (trust 'em). Then they asked their partners to send them CA audits... Hope someone helped them in the crash/backup.
I'd like to read more about this crash. Are you talking about something that happened within the last week? Jim bell
The Register quotes Microsoft: "As many of you may have just noticed, our system just generated a bunch of emails informing many of you that you are subject to removal because Microsoft does not have evidence of a qualifying audit on file. This is likely an error on our side, but we need your help. "Our CRM system suffered a data loss, and it looks like it rolled back to an old backup. As a result, we lost audit data for about 147 roots. If you received a message, please don't panic. Instead, please just send Microsoft your most-recent audit data, and we will update our records. Sorry for the confusion. The Register says: "As part of Microsoft’s Trusted Root program’s compliance requirements, Certificate Authorities must provide a courtesy copy of their audit data to the company annually. We’re reliably informed that Microsoft stores these internally in a standalone tool. An error occurred with the tool, so Microsoft contacted some CAs and requested they resubmit a copy of their latest audit data, sources confirm. "Microsoft is a player in backup and the cloud, through Microsoft Azure. Asking third parties for data on themselves in the wake of a back-up bungle is not the biggest disaster in the world, but it doesn’t look good either. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJW4dfHAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0L/nAP/07sYYKn55vLgB9OTGEZsshn C0Sh3itw9HhmRdGfi52o2LopJzYbVNo9uIVwFoTdiV2+Vpix9B9y7FX+GBT0/heJ uXbwqIqmT7vfc8kjQuE8qeSNHhI47Fugwl1tUbiU+dRiKexU/sEIPSLQ5S3QG58A psPeLJz/G6qqR5IuE+XIg/AIJAsJ48/MXTD1aAIeVsabEUXRfSdtbGBCIZ3MUtBY YNjHbnN9qMm+ve99BocN2UJarwigh8wLUUVQXeqBWRda767ScT0Zdkf8weMXF6yB xI7b+i4VMPD1Z15CKwf99kYPbofvZJjeVuUKVYCM+gBzzwruKZld1O7CXC59VrLZ pK/MIJRJrKdDN4gBMlwi0/8UOjhigOrikP0rBmm+SLgv0jTBFIEAqyVZ1+wVSdbi BQCwwzCnvvB8rgflV2VQRs5vwlKjGc33BGZGjFn0TqcrHlVLtvGqzYS3WMUQ4XlQ uKyuhnTvA2ZQC9fzWIfg7MvMlGjpx/A9dY5YICkMVrv2AD9quTyW0FXiWZ/gOf1C zqhyj3Wls2sVj5O30g67suX4r5ST/nP9Zt8to7D3D86KnO2bom/dTkG9TJwr1xZo 2zDSIihyjR4v3jz6zO14MqnIwkKJR390UmvJXdIN5aEO52G+nTBd2Myv6wjzcUhL cubWo3p3T2ZMXJu8owsf =aSZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----