Re: Windows chokes on latest Microsoft patch

From: S. Pidgorny (slavickp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:58:43 +1000

"Imhotep" <Imhotep@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:19qdndH3y75HWsvenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@adelphia.com...

> > Such is the nature of software updates.

> Correction: Such is the nature of sh*tty software updates...

Incorrect. If you cannot test all the configurations out there and you have
install base of more than a million users, there will be problems for some -
and in case of the new patch, the impacted user base isn't that big, and
Microsoft is doing what's necessary to support them. You might not know it,
but support for MS security updates is _free_, and MS already identified the
common cause of grief in the latest case. Compared to my experience updating
some of Linux systems, it is quite good. 

-- 
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, RHCE
-= F1 is the key =-
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