https://www.computerworld.com/article/3216425/microsoft-patch-alert-april-patches-have-sharp-edges-with-several-missing-others-reappearing.html
By Woody Leonhard
Columnist
Computerworld
April 29, 2019
You have to wonder who’s testing this stuff.
Admins, in particular, have had a tough month. April brought widespread
breakdowns – bluescreens, hangs, very sluggish behavior – to hundreds of
thousands of Win7 and 8.1 machines. This wasn’t a “small percentage” kind of
event. For some companies, rebooting overnight on Tuesday brought seas of blue
screens on Wednesday morning.
The first round of cumulative updates and Monthly Rollups arrived on Patch
Tuesday, but the now-ubiquitous second round didn’t show up until late Thursday
afternoon, two and a half weeks later. Talk about admins taking a beating.
We still have one Tuesday left this month – the mythical “E week” that
Microsoft never talks about – so the month may yet end with both a bang and
whimper.
Here’s how things look as early Monday morning.
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