Be of good cheer: The Windows/Office December patching minefield looks clear
The big remaining bugaboo — the Dec. 19 emergency release of Internet Explorer patches for all supported versions of Windows — remains shrouded in secrecy. That said, it looks like early reports of devastating bugs in the IE update are overstated; at this point, I’m not aware of any replicable problems.
That’s very good news, actually, given Microsoft’s exceedingly poor recent history with emergency patches.