Apple pushes out OS X patch bundle yesterday:
Apple mega update strikes out calendering bug
Apple pushed out a bumper security and performance update on Wednesday that finally plugs a long-standing security hole.
Mac OS X version 10.5.3 updates open source components that Apple bundles with its software (such as Apache) as well as its own software and third party components. In total the software upgrade patches 22 modules, including a fix for a serious security bug in Apple’s calendering application iCal.
If Microsoft did something like this, imagine the bleating from the fanbois about how terrible Microsoft and Windows are. Look at all those patches, finally they fixed that longstanding security problem, think of the bandwidth for downloading all that crap….
But a big Apple update ditto is page-20-below-the-fold news. Nothing to see here, move along.
Clearly Apple is equivalent to the Democrats.
(And yes, I’m doing this on purpose to tweak Hodapp and Naylor. So there. 😀 )
I thought about taking your bait, especially since my Mini-Note actually woke itself up, installed updates on Patch Tuesday this week, rebooted itself and woke me up at 3AM with the Vista startup sound.
I guess that demonstrates SOME improvement on Microsoft’s part, since it hasn’t been that long ago that if you put a Windows machine to sleep it wouldn’t wake up at all without a reboot, so that it can wake ITSELF up to install a bunch of Microsoft spaghetti fixes is something of a victory for Redmond. 😉
Well, I was beginning to wonder 🙂
FWIW I’ve installed XP SP3 on several machines and it’s smooth. It seemed to speed up my PIII laptop a bit, in fact.
Got a new Dell laptop coming (XP of course). Precision M4300 with a Core Duo T9300, 6M L2 Cache, 800MHz bus, 2GB RAM. It’s going to be my desktop replacement machine.