[News] [Rival] Microsoft Downplays Severity of Broken Security Patches

Microsoft Patch Re-released

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| The initial version that was posted was incomplete, missing “important
| security and reliability updates.�
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[url]http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzQ0OTQsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=[/url]


Days ago:

Microsoft admits posting flawed update

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| Microsoft Corp. rereleased one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday,
| explaining that it had posted an incomplete version to its own download
| center last week.
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| The admission was the third time in the past two months that Microsoft has
| had to reissue a security-related update.
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[url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113260&intsrc=news_ts_head[/url]
[url]http://tinyurl.com/5uhbjs[/url]


Related:

Microsoft DNS fix causes trouble for some

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| The Microsoft Corp. released a DNS fix in its patch slate for July, but the
| company seems to have problems just getting it to end users. Moreover, some
| users of the DNS fix have experienced additional difficulties.
|
| So far, since Microsoft's DNS fix was issued on July 10, there have been two
| separate problems associated with its installation.
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[url]http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46704-1.html[/url]


Microsoft Customers Irate over Daylight-Saving Time Woes

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| Updated: This year's daylight-saving time change is causing major
| frustration for IT administrators running Microsoft programs that
| need to be individually patched to reflect the change. Â*
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[url]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2102366,00.asp[/url]


No Saving Time in Microsoft DST Patches?

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| IT managers are feeling grumpy about Microsoft's preparations for
| this year's early daylight-saving time. If anything, the situation
| shines another glaring light on patch management problems, how long
| Microsoft supports products and how much longer businesses tend to
| use them.
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[url]http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/no_saving_time_in_microsoft_dst_patches.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535[/url]
[url]http://tinyurl.com/2rvf3a[/url]


Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches

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| A number of users in the DST chat room are reporting problems
| getting their Blackberry servers and devices to sync up with
| their DST-patched Exchange servers. Others, in spite of Microsoft
| warnings to apply DST patches in a specific order, are running
| into problems because they are attempting to patch Exchange
| before Windows.
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[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=307[/url]

On 2008-08-25, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> claimed:[color=blue]
> Microsoft Patch Re-released
>
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>| The initial version that was posted was incomplete, missing “important
>| security and reliability updates.�
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> [url]http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzQ0OTQsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=[/url]
>
>
> Days ago:
>
> Microsoft admits posting flawed update
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft Corp. rereleased one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday,
>| explaining that it had posted an incomplete version to its own download
>| center last week.
>|
>| The admission was the third time in the past two months that Microsoft has
>| had to reissue a security-related update.
> `----
>
> [url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113260&intsrc=news_ts_head[/url]
> [url]http://tinyurl.com/5uhbjs[/url][/color]

They only put the effin' things out once a month now! It's bad enough
that they leave their "customers" (aka "marks") vulnerable for long
periods while they "test" their crapware patches. Can't they even get
it right with a whole month to check the damned thing?

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Don't open Windows, you'll let the bugs in!

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