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Kudos for the objective comments.[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 11:59:44 AM PDT

No company should be off-limits when it comes to security, applying updates, and just running software. Unfortunately, it's a fine balancing act to get security right. If you're overly aggressive, you get complaints that nothing runs. If you're not aggressive enough, you get complaints about all the holes. There's also the business balance: Businesses (and users) get angry when there are too many or too few patches. Finally, except for the power users, no typical user is going to appreciate a message like, "AF3827.dll is about to be updated. Is that okay?" Of course, the library can be a shared library on any OS so this balancing act impacts all of us, regardless of platforms used.

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