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[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 135 points 2 months ago

"Microsoft's latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there's no fix [yet]"

Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 months ago

It's also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.

[-] misspacific@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago

click bait never changes or whatever.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Windows is getting worse and worse

and so is the press :( websites and content creators enshittification is as bad as other companies (one could even argue they have been among the first to do that)

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Too late, there's a little blood in the water so now everyone hates Microsoft and is pouncing on every drop they think they smell. Being part of an angry mob is fun!

Don't worry, in a couple of weeks or months some other big company or rich person will become the focus and everyone will forget about Microsoft again.

[-] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

Sure there is, abandon Windows.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago
[-] lockhart@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago

Sure there is, abandon Work.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I tried to turn in my buckets of thank yous at the bank but they didn't take em. Gonna be windows for now

[-] misspacific@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

yup. i'm tied to unreal engine 5.

(yes, i know there's a version for linux. i need to be on windows for the latest updates and work though.)

[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 4 points 2 months ago

No, but at work it's someone else's problem. I'm so glad that my employer agreed to replace my Windows machine with a Mac.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

Linux for VPN, VM for Windows :p

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online -3 points 2 months ago
[-] B0rax@feddit.de 6 points 2 months ago

Because work usually does provide the computer and they don’t want you to tamper with it too much.

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Because the software we write has to run on windows and only windows. No Linux or wine or any other platform. It’s a fixed requirement from our client and unfortunately I don’t see that changing.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Can't see the desk to write, and no indoor lighting

[-] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

There's no alternative, Linux doesn't meet my needs as a PC user so I'm stuck with windows.

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I guess you'll have to accept your fate.

[-] mub@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago

This seems like bullshit to me. I've not seen anyone complaining their VPN isn't working. And any business with staff using VPNs would not be happy if they managed to let that update get applied.

[-] Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I noticed my main VPN and backup VPN failing to connect the other day, but that was 3-4 days ago. Haven't tried since, because I switched to Pop!_OS in that time.

At the time I thought it was just my ISP being my ISP.

E: Both with Wireguard and OpenVPN, across multiple servers.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I've been dealing with a VPN failure at work.

About 80% of my day has been lost due to access issues into the secure space I work, since about 6 days back.

[-] Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Running Windows 11, is updated, VPN works perfectly

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Okay quick question::

All vpns?

Or is there a list of affected v unaffected??

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Don't trust every "article" on some shitty website.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Well yeah. That’s kinda the point I was trying to make…

“It breaks VPNs!!”

Name one….

Oh yeah like a whole bUnCh!!!!!

Name….. one…

—- and in two articles I’ve seen they still have not named one. Great work there “journalists”

[-] cyrus@sopuli.xyz -5 points 2 months ago

The System's VPN imementation is broken. All of them are broken.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

So like, the 0 that use that implementation. Like really, IPsec? No openvpn support? No wireguard support? What is this, 2004?

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago
[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

tbh if you managed to buy into meraki you deserved it

anyways, look at this christmas tree out of meraki gear:

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

It's a crap platform, but it's the company's fault.

Just like the windows laptop.

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Our sister company had their VPN broken by this and we had to switch to another system. Even though it wasn't a particularly secure VPN (IPSec), the builtin Windows VPN was extremely reliable and convenience compared to shit like Pulse.

[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 4 points 2 months ago

In fairness, Surfshark appears still to work.

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Coincidentally I saw Edge pop up an ad for Microsoft VPN for the first time as soon as I started it today... Hmmm

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago

Glad I dumped Windows in favor of an OS that doesn’t suck.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

works on my machine

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I'm running windows and my nordvpn still works. So maybe this article shouldn't even exist and the OP should lose all credibility when ti comes to anything technology related.

[-] NoneYa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Oh wonderful! For all of our users that use VPN, we’re just screwed. Glad we began blocking access from non-Windows computers 😊

[-] electromage@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't uninstalling the update fix it?

[-] nitneroc@lemmy.one 24 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't uninstalling windows fix it permanently?

[-] TheProtector0034@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

Tailscale still works here.

[-] downpunxx@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Has anyone here been running into this issue realtime since the update?

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Vpns are working fine. This article is dogshit.

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So because VPN works for you, it's impossible for it to not work for literally anybody else?

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I work for an MSP managing thousands of workstations and servers. I'm also the "VPN guy" so I deal with them constantly every single day.

Perhaps you should ask questions before making assumptions.

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