Article by Debra Littlejohn Shinder.
Microsoft has been pummeling us with security updates for the
past few months, and seemed to be stuck on the number 16 for a
while there. While it's great that they're fixing all these
vulnerabilities, it can put quite a strain on those of us who are
tasked with testing and applying them. The good news is that
this time, we get a bit of a reprieve. Don't get too excited
– it's not like the good old days of Tuesdays Past when
we only had to deal with four or five patches, but 11 feels like a
fairly light load at this point.
Besides, it's the middle of July and it's too hot
outside to venture out – at least if you live in the southern
part of the United States – so we might as well stay in our
air-conditioned buildings and spend the day testing and applying
patches. Most of these are for Windows, with the exception of the
usual Edge and IE cumulative updates, a Flash Player patch, and one
for Office and one for .NET Framework.
