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The actually bad Black Tuesday patch -- KB 2871630, the a single that caused the folder list in cheap project 2010 to disappear -- was pulled early Wednesday morning, as Gregg Keizer notes in his Computerworld post. Microsoft 'fessed up to producing a huge mistake with all the patch and, in an obscure blog post, time-stamped 11:48 a.m. Wednesday, has urged Windows customers to uninstall KB 2871630 manually.

Essentially the most damning element about Microsoft's handling of but another botched patch incident? There have been verified, credible reports in the problem on Microsoft's own TechNet forum and Answers forum that weren't heeded for at least 14 hours, almost certainly longer. That's 14 hours of bad automatic updates. We didn't get an official explanation until 24 hours or a lot more after the bad patch hit.

While KB 2876130 is reined in for the moment, a whole slew of this month's patches are still causing problems on some machines: Two visio 2010 professional security updates -- MS13-072 / KB2760411 and KB2760588 -- and a single Excel 2007 security update -- MS13-073 / KB2760583 -- are installing over and over again. The Microsoft Answers forum thread has hundreds of posts. The KB articles now say, "You could be repeatedly offered this update despite the fact that it really is already nstalled. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post a lot more details in this article when the details becomes available." At this point there's no further details.

The MS13-073 / KB 2810048 security patch for cheap windows 7 professional installs over and over again. Two Answers forum threads in English -- as effectively as numerous in other languages -- have a lot more than a hundred entries. At about 10:30 p.m. PDT Thursday night, Softpedia posted an article that says "Dustin Childs, group manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing [sent us a message that says] "We've received reports of some consumers experiencing issues when deploying some of September's Office-related updates. We are investigating this concern and will act accordingly, to help ensure that our consumers are protected." As of 11 p.m. PDT Thursday night, there is no notification inside the KB article.

The installer for the MS13-074 / KB 2810009 security patch for microsoft windows 8 is failing with an error code 80242009. There's a TechNet thread on the problem that's up to practically a hundred posts. As of 11:00 p.m. Thursday, the TechNet MS13-074 article says "Known issues: None" The MS13-068 / KB 2794707 Outlook 2010 security patch is throwing off an error that looks just like the problem Microsoft encountered with Outlook inside the Office 2010 SP two update, exactly where the Calendar Folder property is empty. I've been told that Microsoft considers the problem to be "cosmetic" and it really is relegated to "won't fix" status.

Microsoft's back to its Keystone Kops strategy to Black Tuesday. There's significantly a lot more to this than meets the eye. Should you had microsoft office 2013 Update enabled on Tuesday, you not only received 36 security updates from 13 security bulletins. You also got a whopping 80 non-security patches, slithering proper in there with all the security patches. Your exact tally will vary, depending on which versions of Windows and Office you run; no one got all 116 patches. But on Black Tuesday, 36 security patches and 80 non-security patches slid down the Auto Update chute. Kersplat.

Pulling a patch must be a knee-jerk reaction to any problem, actual or imagined. If a Microsoft client is crazy enough to turn on Automatic Update, then it won't matter if they miss the patch today or tomorrow, they'll get it rammed down their throats next week.