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Archive for December 11th, 2003

11 Dec

Microsoft MS03-051 patch for Front Page Extensions fails to appear in Windows Update

This is a particularly nasty patch, as it can affect web servers with hardly anything running other than IIS and Front Page Extensions. The update fails to show up in Microsoft Update - it still hadn’t appeared on my web server, so I hunted down the patch myself (hint: start at http://www.microsoft.com/security - that’s the [...]

11 Dec

NYT: IRS project overruns, a billion here and a billion there,…

At I.R.S., a Systems Update Gone Awry. “The $8 billion project to replace the Internal Revenue Service’s aging file-keeping computer software is far behind schedule and over budget.” By David Cay Johnston. [New York Times: Technology]

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