• MS-DEFCON 2: Skipping the December patches, for now

    Posted on January 12, 2015 at 07:57 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    You all know that I wait and give the “all clear” when it looks like Microsoft has finally fixed a given month’s patches.

    Well, for December, I waited and waited and… and I’m still waiting.

    If you want to install individual patches, go right ahead. Reader Frank, posting in the original patch-kvetching thread, has a good compromise for Windows 8 users:

    After some careful study I decided to triage KB2726958, KB3008923, KB3008925 and KB3004394 as offered in December for Windows 8.1 64 bit system. I installed the other December patches without incident and have not experienced any discernible issues as of yet. I think KB3004394 will be OK to install as the issues it created seem to surface on Windows 7 and Server 2008 only. However, out of an abundance of caution the four patches noted will not be installed until the confidence level becomes clearer.

    But for those of you who don’t want to pick-n-choose, I say wait. Don’t install the December patches yet. We’ll look at the mess again at the end of January.

    Helluva note, ain’t it?

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