In this week's NetworkWorld column, I address how some folks are starting to game Microsoft's patching process. The inspiration for this story was George Ou's post here [1], but it also gave me an opportunity to revisit the 3rd party patching concept and also give some thought to what Microsoft can do to deal with the situation.

Check it out: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2006/073106rothman.html [2]