Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine's Day

Microsoft plans to publish nine updates next Tuesday – four of which are critical – as part of a Valentine's Day edition of its Patch Tuesday update cycle. Highlights of the batch, which collectively address 21 vulnerabilities, include a critical update for Internet Explorer. There are also two critical fixes for Windows …

[kevin king]

They love me, they love me not, They love me, They love me not.....

Rose are Red, Violets are blue, Microsoft squishes bugs, just for you!!!!

[LarsG]

BUT...

Why not now, why wait?

[Lockwood]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Please go patch

Server R2

[kain preacher]

Wow

The first two post are not about how crappy MS is and how they should just do it right the first time .

Taps foot and waits for the post about how we should all be using Linux instead.

[Martin Erdelen]

"we should all be using Linux instead."

There.

Now stop tapping.

[Rod MacLean]

Well...

...wouldn't it be a nice present from Microsoft if they wrote decent software to start with and didn't need to patch it all the time?!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, it would

It would also be nice if Apple, Linux, Solaris, AIX, zOS, <insert other OS names here>, also didn't need patching.

It would also be nice if all other OSes got the same reporting as MS do for patching.

[eulampios]

You mean, it would be nice for the Windows users to feel not so jealous?

[StrictlySocial]

bug free like Android?

[Anonymous Coward]

@strictly

But Android is bug free, Barry Shitpeas told me so.

[Anonymous Coward]

To quote Queen...

I want it now.... I want it now... I want it now, and I want it ALL !

[Lockwood]

Or to quote Apple Bloom

But Ah want it NOOOOOW!

[Doug Glass]

What better way to say I love you ...

... than by not allowing you to be fucked over.

[Paul Hovnanian]

They did it to us again.

And they still haven't taken us out to dinner first.