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Did you have anything useful to contribute to the conversation or did you only mean to embarass yourself?
- by JohnTate2 February 12, 2009 12:00 PM PST
- Let me add a technical comment. Happy to leave other posts to fight over Microsoft v Apple etc.The latest batch of patches has updated over 200 DLL's. We have a product called AOK that reports on and fixes application compatibility issues. Using this in our lab with 800 apps we found over 90% have DLLS that were affected by this. The most significant patch update for some time! This suggests a real risk that some apps will stop working. More info at http://www.changebase.com/news/news_release_2009_02_10.html
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(6 Comments)Off the technical front - I am based in London. It is snowing and wet. England lost to Spain at football last night and our economy is up the shoot. My cat is overweight and I have just finished working a 15 hour day. So if Applerocks thinks things are tough .....