The Return of BSOD: Does ANYONE trust Microsoft patches?
Found on The Register on Monday, 18 August 2014
On 12 August Microsoft released 40 updates for Internet Exploder, Windows 7 and Windows 8 Pro.
Very shortly afterwards people began reporting their Windows machines bricking – while others glimpsed something they hadn't seen in a very long time: the Blue Screen of Death.
Sysadmins must decide whether to trust Microsoft one more time or to run the gauntlet of hackers and malware writers, applying patches late and infrequently to save their own sanity and their credibility in the workplace.
You could avoid a lot of updates if IE wouldn't be deeply integrated into the OS. For someone who never ever uses it, the best patch would be if it wasn't even there.