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January’s patching cyclone
PATCH WATCH
By Susan Bradley
We’re a bit soggy and wet at the AskWoody Tech LLC Global Headquarters here in central California.
We’ve had nearly a week of rain, and more is coming. I shouldn’t complain — severe drought has brought our state’s water supply down to historically low levels, so the water is needed and much appreciated. But when Microsoft rains down upon us at the same time, the total deluge is a bit much.
For January, Microsoft fixed 98 security vulnerabilities, said goodbye (for the final time) to the much-beloved Windows 7, also said goodbye to the less used (but popular among its buffs) Windows 8.1, and actually released updates to Microsoft’s on-premises mail server, Exchange.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.03.0, 2023-01-16).