Three critical fixes in store for MS November Patch Tuesday

Patching Specialist?

What on Earth is a 'Patching Specialist'? Someone who clicks on the yellow shield or someone who actually reads the release web postings?

speaking of patches...

... it would appear MS have got the hump with my refusal to install the latest version of "my favourite browser that I'm most comfortable using"* (Firefox??) and no longer seem willing to supply me with further patches! Oh, tell a lie, they actually pushed me an update to IE6 the other day but other than that they seem to be giving me the cold shoulder.

*Thats like walking into PC world [*shudder*] only for the salesdroid to tell me "here's a computer with your favourite OS that you're most comfortable using". What? You're selling Amigas**??

** He he, managed to shoe-horn the Amiga into this comment! :-)

Patching Specialist

In the windows world a "patching specialist" is someone who can, among other tings, read and understand what the patches do. One of the lies Microsoft originally used to sell windows to company executives was the assertion that they need not pay for highly skilled personnel for administration and maintenance. Therefore, someone who actually has some notion of proper maintenance must be termed a "specialist".

Patching Specialist?

IMHO, that this refers to someone who clearly does not know their left hand from their right given the quality of the recent patches to eminate from Redmond.

@Jimbob

A 'patching specialist' is the person that just clicks the shield and crosses their fingers. To actually read the postings, takes a 'patching technician'. If you want someone that actually understands it, then you'd need a 'patching engineer'.

LINUX

LINIX doesn't need patches.

And Macs dont get viruses.

Windows sucks.

Patching the patches.....

So they're patching the patches that they patched before and failed to fix the bugs in the earlier patches?

Is that why my XP system runs slower and slower?

@Thomas Martin: they never will fix all the bugs. They're writing new buggy code faster than they can ever find and fix the bugs. The corporate bottom line is measured in rolling out new features, not reducing bugs.