> Also they'd have to make sure the patches work properly before releasing on all > systems... Patches are by their nature impredictable, expecially on systems as complicated as a modern OS packed full with applications. In an enterprise environment you absolutely, totally and positively do not want any patch whatsoever to find its way on your critical systems before you tested it and perhaps also backed up the system completely just in case it turns out to be a mess, afterwards. Timeo Microsoft et Dona Ferentes (but could be applied to any vendor) Stefano "Raistlin" Zanero System Administrator Gioco.Net public PGP key block at http://gioco.net/pgpkeys
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