Patch Tuesday is coming again
As we approach another “Patch Tuesday” - Windows users be prepared for some updates.
As usual, the second Tuesday of the month heralds a suite of updates to Microsoft products, this month including at least one “critical” update.
Soemtime on or after Tuesday you’ll need to run Windows Update to get these important fixes. The security and safety of your PC is your responsibility - but it affects the safety and security of everyone on the net.
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Do you think we should start having some kind of active celebration every time Patch Tuesday comes around? After all, we have Pancakes every Shrove Tuesday.
Well, as it’s a techie celebration - Pizza, Beer and a Star Wars (New Hope, Empire or Jedi only of course) DVD
would probably be appropriate!
Hello Tom
I’ve learned to stop trying to defend the indefensible (ha!) I realised that I don’t have to buy the Microsoft software I don’t like. Last year I bought a beautiful new Powerbook and migrated all the data and software I have to OSX. I haven’t looked back since. Now I finally have a commercial quality desktop that runs Unix and looks like a million dollars. If Armani made laptops…
Hi Dafydd - I have to agree with you on the Mac’s - I’d love to try one, but even the mini is a bit expensive to “try an OS”
I do still have to use MS stuff at work, and so I do still tend to use MS at home too - I don’t feel that there’s anything wrong with any OS in general - it’s just that MS make such a big thing over patch Tuesday, and many folks I end up helping with their home PC’s don’t do their patches.
If the computer and it’s OS will allow you to do what you need to do - great - and these days you can do the same things on MacOS X, Windows, Linux…
A Mac would be great, if I had the time to learn a new system (or the money), I’d take the step and get a Mac Mini myself - but at the moment, my PC does everything I need it to. (and plenty I don’t - like crashing)
It’s not just a matter of trying the OS. I did want to upgrade from a dell laptop. The mac was smaller and lighter apart from running Unix. I still have to use windows at work (alongside linux), but at home I’m the customer and I’m prepared to pay not to waste my time cleaning up after a broken operating system. It’s no use complaining about windows. If people choose Windows, they should be prepared to suffer the consequences. I don’t mind making money out of working on windows, but when I have the power to choose something better, I use it.
Dafydd, I’m not complaining about windows - for my needs, it’s fine - if I get the point where I’m looking to buy a new PC (I don’t currently have any use for a laptop) I’ll be considering Mac’s, however it still something new for me to learn, and I’ll have to replace a lot of software which is paid for.
I’m not “bashing” Mac users at all - nor I am bashing the machines - it’s about choice. I currently chose to use a Windows based machine - you currently chose to use a Mac. However, as I have a considerable investment in hardware which runs Windows, along with USB devices which may not have Mac drivers - moving to the Mac is, from a financial perspective, not an option for my “main” machine.
I don’t want this to turn into a debate on which is better - as I’ve never used a Mac for any length of time, I don’t know which is - clearly you do use both and beleive the Mac is the better machine for what you’re doing with it.