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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (24079)	6/14/2001 11:28:40 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft "incredibly sorry" about goofed fix news.cnet.com This story has to get "The more things never change, the more they stay the same" prize. It's way funnier than the usual run of the mill MSFT security hole story. System administrators who rely on Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software are hoping the third time's a charm for the software giant. Microsoft contritely acknowledged Wednesday that its second attempt to fix an Exchange security hole went awry. Rather than fix the problem--and the security hole--the company's second attempt at a software patch included a catastrophic bug that caused many servers to hang. The company was not aware of the problem until alerted by CNET News.com. "Yesterday, we discovered that the updated version contained outdated files which, as a result, did not fix the issues for which it was designed," a Microsoft representative said Wednesday. "We are incredibly sorry and apologize for any inconvenience. I think Ashok Kumar should be assigned to come up with a new characterization for Bill & Co.