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  • noun Plural form of hotfix.

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Examples

  • You'd have to click through a more technical document to see how many of SP3's patches are "hotfixes" that may not have been distributed automatically through Microsoft's Windows Update service.

    Microsoft retires Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 2010

  • You'd have to click through a more technical document to see how many of SP3's patches are "hotfixes" that may not have been distributed automatically through Microsoft's Windows Update service.

    Microsoft retires Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 2010

  • Incremented for QFEs (a.k.a. "hotfixes" or patches) to builds released into the Production environment (PROD).

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • Some of this already occurs even in OSs such as MS Windows (see those "hotfixes" in your

    TechRepublic Blogs 2010

  • Well, an unsupported service pack means no security updates, hotfixes or assisted support from Microsoft customer service.

    Death of Windows XP SP2 Support a Security Risk, Says Report 2010

  • After running the program, pointing it to your Office CD/DVD or installation directory, and choosing service packs, updates, and hotfixes to integrate, it creates a new ISO that installs Office XP, 2003, or 2007 with everything rolled in.

    Office Integrator Slipstreams Hotfixes into Microsoft Office | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Doesn't look like it's on windows update yet, but you can download the hotfixes from the linked page.

    UFies.org: Security Archives 2010

  • Automatic Updates in Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition can keep your computer up to date with the latest hotfixes.

    Update your Windows Service Pack 2009

  • It's installing security hotfixes in batches of forty.

    Two days of not so bad mariness 2007

  • Still, lots of fun writing about something that may have little or no documentation knowing that in 7 years time someone will be reading it when there is a lot of documentation about, or hotfixes might have been released that address an issue ;- Product isn't compatible with X, oh look a hotfix that changes that a year after the book went to print

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Lil He’p 2009

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