Everybody knows what “Black Friday” is… the Friday after Thanksgiving (in the US) where retailers can go “in the Black” (profit) for the year in just one day of massive selling.
“Black Tuesday” is not always so profitable.
It’s the 2nd Tuesday of each month when Windows automatically updates all their “fixes”… and, sad to say, not everything done is really a “fix” from the end user perspective.
That’s why some IT people call the second Tuesday of every month “Black Tuesday”. They can go in today, the following Wednesday, and find all sorts of havoc being played out in their systems… with the accompanying calls from nervous to angry users calling tech support.
The same can happen to work at home entrepreneurs… and they only have family and friends to complain to usually! That happened to my wife today. Her work at home business was put out of commission after December’s “Black Tuesday” because a Microsoft product failed to perfom – Internet explorer.
Thankfully I had downloaded an alternative browser (which I like but she hates!) so she could still access the internet that way.
That browser provided the needed workaround.
But if unexplained computer havoc happens to you on the Second Wednesday of the month and you’re on a Windows based machine, that might explain your issue.
Having non-Microsoft tools whenever possible like alternative browsers, alternative office software, etc. may help you work around your issues!
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