Patch Tuesday

Several years ago, Microsoft decided to set a schedule for releasing updates to the public.  Since a lot of the updates require rebooting computers, businesses and individuals were finding it difficult to predict when updates would be available for critical systems.  Sometimes one update and reboot would be completed, then new updates would be released within a few days requiring another round of installs and reboots.  The decision then to just postpone those updates until a later date would leave systems vulnerable to the problems which the updates aimed to fix. Microsoft decided on the...