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Susan Bradley

Susan Bradley

Susan Bradley, "the Patch Lady," is a Windows patching expert and Microsoft MVP who writes the Patch Watch column at AskWoody.com and works as IT wrangler/forensic investigator at CPA firm Tamiyasu, Smith, Horn and Braun.

Sep 16, 2026

9:30
Interesting.
9:30
So now we've got this corner case, you know, you have to have certain hardware.
9:35
So you hear out in the buzz on the street of like, oh, there's issues with patches.
9:42
And you usually tend to hold back.
9:44
And now what I'm having to do, especially because of this volume of updates is it doesn't impact, the side effects do not impact us all in the same way.
9:55
You're having to be more nuanced to say, hey, is it a Dell machine that's being impacted? Is it HP machines? What models are they? Is it a Snapdragon processor? Again, we're kind of going back to where the interaction of the OEM hardware and its software, because all these OEMs have their own little software that they roll out, And what's that impact on these systems as well? And then layer in, we've got, you know, MSPs have their own like management software.
10:26
You have to watch out for that.
12:44
Yeah.

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