Microsoft Outlook Express Patch Flawed

EXTREMETECH .com ^ | October 11, 2002 | Dennis Fisher, eWEEK

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday said that a patch it released Thursday for an Outlook Express vulnerability erroneously tells users they need a different version of Internet Explorer in order to install the fix. In fact, the patch requires IE 6, but users who have installed Service Pack 1 for the browser are already protected against the new flaw. Thus when these users try to install the new patch, they receive an error message.

[toupsie]

Microsoft Outlook Express Patch Flawed

Its not the patch that's flawed...I think its the authors.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Texas Eagle]

Microsoft Outlook Express Patch Flawed

What are the odds?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I installed it OK!

[Texas Eagle]

Wonderful.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Microsoft reminds me of Washington DC, it itself is fundamentally flawed, irreversibly broken.

No matter how hard they outwardly try there will always be a need to rely on them for yet another patch all the while putting out a continuous line of busted programs and flawed junk.

Gee… sounds like DC?

[zeugma]

THis is funny, as it brings to mind something I almost always see stated when discussions about how slow microsoft is to release patches. The apologists will say "that's because their patches are regression tested".

What a joke. Their testing group must be about as talented as their programmers.

[Bush2000]

Microsoft reminds me of Washington DC, it itself is fundamentally flawed, irreversibly broken.

Perhaps you could point me at some software that doesn't have any bugs. I've been searching for years and I've never found any. Perhaps you know something that the rest of the world doesn't.