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Microsoft Patches: Too Much of a Good Thing?


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Will Microsoft step up its server capacity to meet increasingly heavy user demand for its monthly patches? Stay tuned.

It's like clockwork these days: Every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft releases its amalgamated security patches and fixes.

Microsoft's customers have come to plan on this monthly happening. And many of them have programmed their systems to automatically download the patches when they appear — usually around 10 a.m. PST.

So what's the problem? Too many users hitting too few servers. The result? Problems connecting to Microsoft's Windows Update site, where the downloadable patches reside.

"Now that more people are aware that updates are due on the second Tuesday … I'm seeing what I thought would happen...Denial of service of Windows Update from their own customers," said one Microsoft customer, systems engineer Rafael Cappas.

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I had to update my active sync for my hand held last night (pocket PC) .....3.7mb took just over an hour (Im on BB) ...Not a good advert for the supposedly top dog software company is it ...!

Its just not the security patch site

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