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Microsoft Takes a 'Patch Tuesday' Break

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wish-i-could-take-a-post-friday-break dept.

Phill0 submitted a ZD story about Microsoft's week off which says "Microsoft has no new security updates planned for Tuesday, despite at least five zero-day vulnerabilities that are waiting to be fixed. The patch break could be a welcome respite for IT managers still busy testing the dozen fixes Microsoft released last month. Also, many IT pros may be occupied with the switch to daylight saving time, which at the behest of Congress, is happening three weeks earlier this year. "

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  1. DST by Chicken04GTO · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stupid congress and their DST. How much energy do they think we will save by moving up DST 3 weeks? How much economic loss will be caused by companies all over the place busting their ass trying to get all kinds of systems pathced and working right...?

    Idiot congresspeople.

    1. Re:DST by The_Wilschon · · Score: 3, Insightful

      In a significant and large portion of the country, March is the heart of spring. I saw people studying out under trees yesterday because the weather was beautiful. It is 64F right now. I turned on my air conditioning briefly because my apartment got uncomfortably hot yesterday.

      If you don't live in Maine, this makes a heck of a lot more of a difference than you apparently realize. (Yes, restricting to only Maine is an exaggeration, too. Deal with it. You know what I mean by it anyway.)

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    2. Re:DST by sconeu · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The economic loss is grossly exagerated like the w2k bug that NEVER hAPENNED

      Which Windows 2000 bug was that?

      Oh, you meant Y2K? Yeah, it "never happened" because thousands of dedicated professionals worked for years to fix and upgrade old systems.

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  2. What about when they realize it was stupid? by PornMaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are we going to have to re-patch everything in a year or two when they change it back?

    On the good side, we found out what doesn't come back up automatically after a reboot on the Sun systems that needed the libc patch, too.

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    1. Re:What about when they realize it was stupid? by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If people were smart about it, they would have implemented the change to be adjustable so we wouldn't have to re-patch everything. How likely is that though?

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  3. Re:Zero Day by operagost · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Zero-day vulnerability" is totally meaningless. Even the proper "zero-day exploit" makes no sense after zero-day. Totally useless garbage speak, just the marketroids and talking heads who make up words like "factoid" because somehow the word "fact" is not descriptive enough.

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  4. DST fiasco by Vexler · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They had since August 2005 to address this, but the software patch only came out in early February of 2007. Then, they had the gall to change the instructions no less than four times while I was preparing to upgrade (KB930879 was updated three times while I was reading it two Thursdays ago), along with a new version of the upgrade tool that were substantially different from what the instructions said. Even the consulting firm we hired only got it to work this past Sunday night.

    Microsoft blew it, folks. This is not to say that OSS does it much better, although Red Hat and FreeBSD (two other OSs we use) nailed the patch months ago. But when you are a $50B company and could only produce the detritus that is the DST patch, there is no excuse for it.