Microsoft Patch Sparks Debate -- Redmond Channel Partner

So, Microsoft issued a patch last week, which some security blogger said was mostly useless , prompting Microsoft to say that it wasn't really all that useless , in turn prompting the first blogger to say that, yeah, it still kind of was . We suggest that the blogger and somebody from Microsoft have a Stewart-Cramer-style dustup on YouTube, maybe with Stephen Colbert moderating .

Posted by Lee Pender on March 17, 2009

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