No Wild Weekend

It's out now.

Miffed a lowly Russian programmer was only several orders of magnitude smarter than they were and embarrassed them by beating them to the punch for a fix for their own operating system, Microsoft today rushed out their own patch for the WMF flaw.

No word yet how effective it is.

Maybe it will hold - then again maybe it's just typical Microsoft coding.

But for now the planet can get back to business and perhaps enjoy the weekend - thanks and no thanks to Microsoft.

For now Windows (l)users can again procrastinate their inevitable migration.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/01/06/wmfflaw/
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=5102
http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39155406,00.htm
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/81926/microsoft-patches-wmf-vuln.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=71495
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/93a3e678-7e46-11da-8ef9-0000779e2340.html
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501958.html