Microsoft Plans An Overhaul For Patch System

sckienle writes "ZD-Net has an article about Microsoft's plans to overhaul their patch system. 'Ninety-five percent of attacks happen after a patch for a known software vulnerability has been issued' says Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist at Microsoft. Basically, Scott is promoting the idea that Microsoft can do a better job, in many ways, so people will trust and be able to install patches quickly. Microsoft has a transcript of Scott Charney's talk on their site." As reader sweeney37 summarizes, " Microsoft's plan is to reduce the patch installers from eight to two, they want to have one patch installer specifically for the OS side and one specifically for the applications." Sweeney37 points out this InformationWeek article on the planned change.

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And the rest 5%??!

[plj]

How about writing secure code that is secure right out of the box?

Oh, but wait... this is M$. Sure they do not have resources for that. Nevermind.

Re:While it's laudable that they're at least tryin

[Zemran]

at least trying..

very trying...

I think they should put the effort into finishing the development before they release the product instead so that the patches were less relevant.