Canis Lupus
06-13-2001, 06:04 PM
Okay, so what else is new...
System administrators who rely on Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software are hoping the third time's a charm for the software giant.
Microsoft contritely acknowledged Wednesday that its second attempt to fix an Exchange security hole went awry. Rather than fix the problem--and the security hole--the company's second attempt at a software patch included a catastrophic bug that caused many servers to hang. The company was not aware of the problem until alerted by CNET News.com.
"Yesterday, we discovered that the updated version contained outdated files which, as a result, did not fix the issues for which it was designed," a Microsoft representative said Wednesday. "We are incredibly sorry and apologize for any inconvenience."
If only they were always this apologetic with Windows. Quite a blow (pardon the pun) to Microsoft's efforts to announce that they have better server software than Linux. And this prolonged embarrassment is not helping them...
Full details at ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092661,00.html).
System administrators who rely on Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software are hoping the third time's a charm for the software giant.
Microsoft contritely acknowledged Wednesday that its second attempt to fix an Exchange security hole went awry. Rather than fix the problem--and the security hole--the company's second attempt at a software patch included a catastrophic bug that caused many servers to hang. The company was not aware of the problem until alerted by CNET News.com.
"Yesterday, we discovered that the updated version contained outdated files which, as a result, did not fix the issues for which it was designed," a Microsoft representative said Wednesday. "We are incredibly sorry and apologize for any inconvenience."
If only they were always this apologetic with Windows. Quite a blow (pardon the pun) to Microsoft's efforts to announce that they have better server software than Linux. And this prolonged embarrassment is not helping them...
Full details at ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092661,00.html).