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Last Updated: Oct 22, 2009

It's not easy keeping your head above water in the patch-infested "Straits of Microsoft. Use this collection of stories and tips as a flotation device.

Berkeley National Lab wrestles with Windows patch management

by: Matthew A. DeBellis, News Writer (12 Feb 2003)

The nation's oldest government laboratory is in the midst of testing two software applications to better manage thousands of Windows desktops, and to keep from drowning in a flood of patches.

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