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Friday, December 9th, 2005

Just Hit Me: MS’s “Patch Tuesday” - Kinda Odd?

Saw this over at eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1898270,00.asp

What suddenly hit me is how odd this is. Basically we can expect Microsoft will have important patches (mostly security related) every “Patch Tuesday”… The FOSS approach is to patch when a threat arises. Two approaches to solving the same problem, two different delivery methods.

I hate those work meetings you have on the same day/time every week “just because”. I also don’t like to leave my systems unprotected until the next regularly scheduled call.