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Another patching debacle — how we got here

Posted on August 26, 2019 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

WOODY’S WINDOWS WATCH

By Woody Leonhard

Frantic moves to fix this month’s Windows-update bugs highlight the dark underbelly of Microsoft’s patching strategy.

August patches have been flying around like salmon in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Now that the major bugs are fixed — for the most part — it’s time to look at what happened and speculate on whether this type of debacle can be avoided in the future.

Here’s the short version of events.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.30.0 (2019-08-26).

Windows Patches/Security AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Deferring updates, DejaBlue, Patching problems, Windows updating

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