• MS-DEFCON 2: Office 2007 Pack 2 is up – avoid all patches for now

    Posted on April 30, 2009 at 09:22 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I’m raising us to MS-DEFCON 2:

    Hot on the heels of Office 2007 Service Pack 2 / KB 953195, Microsoft has just released Windows Vista Service Pack 2 [* to manufacturing – expect to see it widely available at some indeterminate point in the not-too-distant future].

    About a week ago, Microsoft started “pushing” Internet Explorer 8 via Automatic Update.

    I strongly recommend that you HOLD OFF on all three. IE 8 has been through the wringer, and I remain ambivalent about installing it, but the other two patches haven’t been out in the wild long enough to see what problems crop up.

    Because of the two new patches and the third that’s long in the tooth but still unproven, we’re at MS-DEFCON 2: Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don’t do it.

    UPDATE: *Man, am I embarrassed. I’ve been knee-deep in Windows 7 stuff, and erroneously reported that Vista SP2 is out in the wild. It isn’t. Microsoft announced that Vista SP2 is complete – it’s been “released to manufacturing” (precisely what is being “manufactured” isn’t at all clear, but I digress). “We expect Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 to be publicly available in Q2 2009.”

    … as I go slinking back to my Windows 7 hovel, tail firmly between legs…

    I feel that the pushing of Office 2007 Service Pack 2 and Internet Explorer 8, though, warrant staying at MS-DEFCON 2.

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