Microsoft yanks botched patch KB 2949927, re-issues KB 2952664

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More monkey business. InfoWorld Tech Watch
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As the debacle that is the Windows Update mechanism continues month after month in which MS consistently botches patches for it’s flagship version of Windows (8.x) I am left to wonder about the level of care that is applied to the patches for older versions like Win 7 and Vista. If they can’t properly maintain their bread and butter customers what hope is there fore the rest of us?

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@ Eric

Check out this eye opener.

http://threatpost.com/microsoft-selective-with-fastfat-driver-patch-deployments/108908

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Woody
I am running my laptop with Windows 7. Each month I wait until I get the word from you that it is safe before I do my updates.
I have two security updates and I have similiar ones each month. Should I apply these now or wait and should I do them each month before I get the word from you.
The two that I am questioning this month are KB2987107 Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 11′ I usually run Firefocx or Chrome as my go to Browsers, but when I run Skype for example it opens and uses Internet Explorer. The second one that I am questioning is KB890830 Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

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@Sam –

The Malicious Software Removal Tool is always good to run – and it’ll run itself, even if you don’t give permission. That’s as it should be.

The IE patch rollups frequently give problems. Wait until I give the all-clear, possibly later this month. (I say possibly because MS still has a bunch of outstanding problems with the October patches.)

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Hopeful,

Thanks for the FAT32 article reference. It confirmed what I have long suspected. Microsoft’s customer care behavior has been incompetent, negligent, loathsome and any number of less wholesome adjectives might be applied. I speculate that their failure to timely update non-current Windows versions that have not reached end of life is part of their marketing strategy to force expensive upgrades on the customer base. I could rant on, but I will vote with my wallet when the time comes to upgrade my computing platforms. No individual non-corporate customer means diddly to Microsoft, but at least I’ll feel better about leaving this bully behind.

Eric

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