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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Patches ...

taken from:
Microsoft slates critical Windows, Office, IE patches next week, including 'head-scratcher'

Now ... this is not necessarily a WOO moment!! But, it does let me talk about the less exciting side of computing - maintenance.  It is estimated that over 50% of the cost of an application (package / program) is in the maintenance phase.

So, Microsoft is sending out patches - and diligent IT staff will be 'pushing' them out - changing images, updating and modifying their software inventory.

It is also said that software is 100% bug free.  (Or ... no software is 100% safe in terms of security).  As Microsoft and others find potential vulnerabilities, they develop 'patches' to fix the situation (until the hackers / others find other places to attack!!).

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