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To make matters worse, Microsoft has just completely skipped this month's patch bundle. As in no other security bug will be fixed until next month.
by mtgx 10y ago
To make matters worse, Microsoft has just completely skipped this month's patch bundle. As in no other security bug will be fixed until next month.
- DangerousPie 10y agoPresumably these two facts are related? I would assume this was supposed to get patched this month within the 90 day deadline but some last minute issue delayed the patch.
- mtgx 10y agoThey probably are. However, I also expect them to be related because of Microoft's own decisions of integrating security patches with one another, instead of keeping them more modular: the so called "patch bundle" policy. It's hard to believe that say some Flash bug couldn't be patched because of some other unrelated bug. But I hope Microsoft can prove me wrong and explain in detail next month why it couldn't deliver any of the 20-30+ bug patches because of a couple of other unrelated and broken patches.
- mrpippy 10y agoThey still release "out-of-band" patches for critical security bugs. There was one a few days ago for Flash Player that presumably would have been in February's patch bundle but was too important to wait for the next one.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoYes, but Flash Player updates are always pushed as separate items from the Cumulative Update. They are much less likely to push an out-of-band CU, especially when it sounds like they botched their last CU.
- gcr 10y agoNext month is tomorrow...?
- dublinben 10y agoMicrosoft's monthly patches are released on the second Tuesday of the month. So that's two weeks away.