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MS Patches Go For Quality Over Quantity?

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-we-have-both dept.

greengrass writes "eWeek.com is running a story about another Microsoft 'study'. This one discusses how good Microsoft is at providing patches for their OS. This is Part 2 of 3 in a series of articles, the first of which compared Linux and Windows on legacy systems." From the article: "Bill Hilf, who is director of Platform Technology Strategy at Microsoft and heads its Linux and open-source lab, told eWEEK in a recent interview that 'the differentiator for customers is not the number comparison, but which vendor makes the patching and updating experience the least complex, most efficient and easiest to manage.'"

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  1. really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe they should open source windows so se can see all the problems and make more problems

  2. The patches just rarely add functionality by generationxyu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    XP still doesn't have support for Bluetooth, and didn't even support WiFi until SP2. The problem with this is that it stifles innovation -- technology just isn't going to take off if it doesn't work in Windows.

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