Patch management could easily be called the bane of every administrator's existence, the pain in the rear of system management, or that never ceasing headache that pounds at CIOs everywhere.
And I use the term "management" loosely. As I write this there are more than 40 updates that need to be applied to a new Dell computer running Windows XP. There were over 20 updates for Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 to apply to new systems before Microsoft released the fourth service pack in the summer of 2003. With this ever-growing hairball of security fixes, bug fixes, critical updates, and patches, might it be easier to disconnect all machines from the Internet and work with stone tablets than deploy new systems?
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