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17 April 2006 

I thought so!

So-called Patch Tuesday rolled around last week and I held off updating Windows as I usually have had a bad experience. Later in the week I saw a few stories touting the importance of the latest update and began thinking. Then with early Saturday morning fuzziness (9:30 AM) I was apparently unable to think so I installed the critical parts of the update.

Then my computer stopped working.

System Restore (one of Microsoft's best acquisitions) brought almost everything back. I still had to tweak a few things, restart a few times, and mince a few oaths.

Sunday, I read the story excerpted here:

Two patches released in Microsoft's April batch of security updates are causing system hangs, Windows crashes and the appearance of strange dialog boxes.

The problems stem from a nonsecurity modification to Internet Explorer and a critical fix for a code execution hole in Windows Explorer and affect third-party programs from Google, Siebel and Microsoft's own Windows Media Player ("Microsoft Patches Causing Breakages, Lockups" Yahoo! News).
And since then I have wondered why everyone seems to be scrambling to use Windows on their Apple computers. On my list of Top 1o Things To Do When I Win the Lottery is to buy a Mac.

4/17/2006 07:56:00 PM |

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