"However, I know *many* Windows admins who don't bother patching right away because Microsoft has a history of releasing patches that solve one problem and create others. Sometimes to the point that the OS becomes unusable. To fault these folks for not jumping immediately on the patch bandwagon is unfair. They're slow to react because they've been burned before."

Yup. A good example is Q328310. It makes a subset of our Windows NT workstations bluescreen. I tried installing it again after Microsoft released a new, supposedly fixed, version and got the exact same results.

Perhaps this is Microsoft's way of trying to force us to upgrade to Win2000?



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