Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers

techmuse writes "According to internetnews.com, Microsoft is giving its premium customers early warning about vulnerabilities and patches. Those of us who aren't lucky enough to have such a relationship with Microsoft may find ourselves at greater risk than premium customers as a result."

Comments

As a Premium Customer Who Sees The Advance Notice

[Rust Martialis]

Look, I know you all hate MS for being evil and all that, but sorry, the 'advance warning' is basically nothing.

All you get is an email from MS saying 'oh, next Tuesday we're going to release X patches, with Y rated critical, and Z rated serious'.

There are ZERO details on what the patch is going to fix, personally, I consider the advance notice almost useless except to tell you you need to have resources ready to roll out critical patches.

You get *no* details, *no* access to patches, and I have several emails from MS Security people who always include ' sorry, I can't give you any details about Tuesday's patch'.

Please, hate MS all you want, but at least hate them for a reason, not the typical /. drooling paranoia I see here.

--R.

Re:Early Warning For Slashdot

[MetalliQaZ]

If you actually read the article, you would know that they aren't actually offering patches early to their premium customers, they are only letting them know that patches are on the way. Everyone in the world gets the patches at the same time. Premium customers are at the same risk as we are. The reason for the "heads up" is so that IT managers can get ready for the huge task of updating every machine they manage. Individuals have only their own computer, or at most a handful of others. These patches are usually expected anyway. And you can find a "heads up" of your own just by reading tech news sites online.
-d