Microsoft pulls four planned patches
Posted by Michael Stanclift on 06 January 2007 - 00:55 · 17 comments & 6733 views
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#1 Posted by adversedeviant on 06 Jan 2007 - 01:15
- only issuing 4? sloppy.
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#1.1 Posted by phiberoptik on 06 Jan 2007 - 01:37
- Quote - (adversedeviant said @ #1)only issuing 4? sloppy.
why sloppy?
you'd rather have buggy security fixes and have your system crash then not have them?
I'm not saying thats why they are pulled, but that could be one of the reasons.
People need to shut their mouths or keyboards when they feel the need to out-burst with random sloppyness comments for no apparent reason and no facts to back their stupidity.
Actually mods, please delete the parent comment above this one, so we can begin the comments on this artical troll free. -
#1.2 Posted by foxconn287 on 06 Jan 2007 - 03:09
- Most mods here are anti-MS fanboys anyways so the chance of that happening is 0
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#1.3 Posted by adversedeviant on 06 Jan 2007 - 03:39
- screw you its called an opinion and you don't need facts to back that up
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#1.4 Posted by Marshalus on 06 Jan 2007 - 05:21
- Quote - (foxconn287 said @ #1.2)Most mods here are anti-MS fanboys anyways so the chance of that happening is 0
Not exactly. -
#1.5 Posted by NightmarE D on 06 Jan 2007 - 15:28
- Quote - (foxconn287 said @ #1.2)Most mods here are anti-MS fanboys anyways so the chance of that happening is 0
That's a BS comment
Most of the mods I've seen our Pro-MS. Then the rest seem to be Pro-Linux. And none seem to come off as a fanboy of either of the OS's. -
#1.6 Posted by NightmarE D on 06 Jan 2007 - 15:32
- Nothing sloppy about this.
They might have caught issues with those 4 updates and pulled them instead of issuing them and having to bring out patch v2 next month and patch v3 the month after that.
Give Microsoft some credit. They're trying to get things done faster now and with better quality. -
#1.7 Posted by Imaginos on 06 Jan 2007 - 15:52
- Quote - (adversedeviant said @ #1.3)screw you its called an opinion and you don't need facts to back that up
Just admit you have nothing to base your opinion on at all except that 4 is less than the 8 previously announced. Don't worry, it won't make you look any dumber.
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#2 Posted by +Steffan on 06 Jan 2007 - 01:59
- I hope this means that MS is starting to look at their patches a little more closely. They don't need another round of patches that breaks more than fix stuff.
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#2.1 Posted by adversedeviant on 06 Jan 2007 - 03:38
- nvm
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#3 Posted by Wodin on 06 Jan 2007 - 02:42
- I agree, I can think of 2 or 3 patches in the last couple of years that caused more problems than they solved. I'm glad they're doing very thorough testing and pulling at the slightest hint of problems. In a large corporation with thousands of machines, a buggy patch can cause major
problems 
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#4 Posted by BriFi on 06 Jan 2007 - 03:58
- It seems like every MS article I read they use the word "software giant".
Seriously, we get it.
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#4.1 Posted by Fred Derf on 06 Jan 2007 - 05:15
- Quote - (BriFi said @ #4)It seems like every MS article I read they use the word "software giant". Seriously, we get it.
Would you rather us use "The Vole"?
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#4.2 Posted by thagame on 06 Jan 2007 - 06:30
- Quote - (Fred Derf said @ #4.1)Quote - (BriFi said @ #4)It seems like every MS article I read they use the word "software giant". Seriously, we get it.
Would you rather us use "The Vole"?
why not just microsoft. or are you posters planning on saying Apple "way behind in the race giant" in every article -
#4.3 Posted by mrmckeb on 06 Jan 2007 - 12:29
- Quote - (thagame said @ #4.2)why not just microsoft. or are you posters planning on saying Apple "way behind in the race giant" in every article
They are obviously trying to say monopoly with actually saying it. Why would you involove crApple in this? -
#4.4 Posted by Mathiasdm on 06 Jan 2007 - 12:54
- What's wrong with using 'software giant'?
If they add 'Microsoft' instead of software giant, it'll be a grand total of 5 times 'Microsoft' (title included).
Not using the same word all the time, makes your text better. -
#4.5 Posted by NightmarE D on 06 Jan 2007 - 15:30
- A lot of sites refer to them as the "software giant"
You make it sound like Neowin is the only site that does it
Three bulletins will contain fixes for Office, at least one of which will be rated "critical," Microsoft said. Critical vulnerabilities typically can allow a worm to spread or allow a Windows system to be fully compromised with minor or no interaction from the person using it. The fourth bulletin, for Windows, is also tagged critical.
On Thursday, Microsoft listed eight bulletins it intended to issue next week in its monthly patch cycle. It appears to have pulled two bulletins for Windows, one for Visual Studio and one for Office. These patches will now likely be released on a future Patch Tuesday.
The company sometimes deviates from the Patch Tuesday advance notification. Last month, for example, it issued one more security bulletin than it had said it would. It has also dropped bulletins, citing quality issues. However, it has never before pulled four bulletins.