Microsoft Issues an Emergency Patch for IE!

Microsoft announced yesterday an update to Internet Explorer thT patches the security issue that the government has been warning about. And, in an unusual move Microsoft is allowing this patch be deployed to Windows XP, which as of April 8TH is no longer supported. However, they wisely decided that this was not only a good move on their part from a security point of view but from a publicity point of view.

Even more unusual this was an out of band patch not issued on a Patch Tuesday. That’s how serious this is!

However, I am hearing all kinds of good reports from people personally as well as in print, that they are moving off of Windows XP, and on to some distribution of Linux! How I love the smell of Linux in the morning!