QFE
n.— «“Out-of-band releases have some advantages,” he said. “You can more quickly add QFEs and bug fixes, whereas if the functionality is tied into the kernel it takes a much longer time to release.” [Ed note: QFE means quick fix engineering and is common parlance in Microsoft circles.]» —“Microsoft adds high-availability features to iSCSI” by Jo Maitland SearchStorage.com Mar. 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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