Comments on: 'Critical' Windows, Exchange fixes coming

Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" will include three security alerts with patches for Windows and the Exchange e-mail server software.

[J_Satch]

Woohoo, patch Tuesday...

...Mardi Gras can't be far behind!

[rcrusoe]

I prefer to wait

Ever since the bad old days of NT4 SP2, which came to be known
as the unibomber patch due to all the servers it blew up, I always
waited week or two before installing any MS patch.

There's not been another patch that bad, but these days waiting
allows you to install the version 2 patch that fix the bugs in the
version 1 patch.

[DryHeatDave]

It's bad news

It's bad news that a patch is needed. but don't forget the days before online updates :-)

[DryHeatDave]

By way of contract

A couple of years ago (in what have been my last ever COBOL coding work - I now design integration solutions), I was working on a COBOL program - I was doing the 107th change in 11 years. OK some were upgrades, rather than fixes. But mainframe code is generally pretty stable. The problem with that code - there was money to fix it, but not rewrite it, the way it needed to be written.

I believe THAT is the problem with much M$ code - it needs junking & replacing - not fixing until it's all patches. When the concept is flawed, it'll not be redeemable with fixes.

[Pop4]

Seem to me the value of application software is MCP's business model

I have used my share of "F"Key systems to float the highlighter in a custom 'COBOL' for end user rigging; those were the days before all your 'PASCAL" worm works 'Davi'.cantgetajob.net "

[Andrew J Glina]

Age

Windows is not as old as you seem to think. The core of many OSes, including MacOS X, are older.