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Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the those-lucky-dudes dept.

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."

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  1. Change one sentence in the summary... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would re-write one sentence in the summary as:
    "Those of us who aren't lucky enough to have such a relationship with Microsoft may find ourselves at greater risk FROM premium customers as a result."
    (changed "than" to "FROM")

  2. except... by Ignignot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bugtraq is almost always ahead of microsoft where it comes to vulnerabilities in their software. Why in the world would I pay Microsoft to tell me what might be wrong tomorrow when bugtraq will tell me what's wrong today? Does anyone have an experience where MS came out with vulnerabilities first?

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  3. Re:so how do it get this status by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >>Security through $$$

    You mean "a false sense of security through $$$", right?

    wbs.

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  4. If only I was a slashdot subscriber... by DoubleDownOnEleven · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Then I could have commented on this article earlier on, and got a better score!

    That's not fair, slashdot should give their information out freely to everyone...

    Oh wait, they do, they just treat their paying customers a little better...

    I really don't see this as much of an issue. The "premier" customers don't get the patches any sooner. They get an advance heads-up on what the patches will contain. Why will this affect anybody?

    According to the article: Microsoft insisted the information provided in the notice was "very basic in nature" and intended only to provide general guidelines concerning the maximum number of bulletins that may be released, the anticipated severity ratings, and an overview of products that may be affected.