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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