Bill To Fix The Fix He Just Made
If you weren’t paying attention to Microsoft updates, which you should be doing if you run their software, the last major patch to Internet Explorer didn’t play well with others. It sort of broke your computer if you used certain software from little companies like Hewlett Packard who seems to make the majority of printers attached to PCs.
Well, next week Microsoft to fix Windows patch. They are patching the patch to fix the problem they caused.
I’m concerned because Hewlett Packard just issued a patch today that may fix the problem Microsoft created, and the patch Microsoft is sending may break the new software. Too bad Microsoft doesn’t do any quality control or really coordinate anything with their vendors or customers.
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As little love as I had for IBM in the old days, at least there was a single door we knocked on when there was a problem.
Thanks for the heads-up, Bryan; it may explain something I’ve observed. I’m seeing a different problem after the batch of patches. On this computer, the MS patches applied automatically, and since then, I’ve been getting a really odd behavior from Internet Explorer in viewing the YDD: I see a (presumably cached) page from back in January. Clearing the cache has no effect; that ghost of bloggings past returns. A “hard refresh” (Ctrl-F5) does show the current home page in the frame. (Yes, I need to take out the frames; they were put in years ago for another purpose, and are still in there on the “if it ain’t broke” principle.) All of this happens on my computer but not on Stella’s. Both have the most recent patches. Firefox gets the correct page on either computer. I have a truly ancient HP printer (a 5L); Stella has an Epson.
I know it’s no panacea, but sometimes I look longingly toward a Linux machine.
It’s not as if Microsoft doesn’t use HP equipment and should have had this problem at their headquarters, if they had tested the patch internally.
One of the things about Firefox is that they find their problems because they have a system for beating up their software. Microsoft seems to wait for others to tell them they have a problem.