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Microsoft Opens Access to Vulnerability Notifications

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-doors dept.

joseph schmo writes "Microsoft has announced that it will throw open the floodgates of vulnerability notifications for everyone who wants them. Previously, it was only offering early notifications to 'Premier and other 'representative' customers,' or those customers who would sign a Non-disclosure statement."

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  1. Who cares? by sridev · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Was anyone really waiting for this to happen?

    I'm fine with the automatic Windows update!

    1. Re:Who cares? by julesh · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm fine with the automatic Windows update!

      That's what I thought until it stopped downloading patches for me without notification or error message (turns out I had failed to download an update that was labelled as non-critical which included a patch for BITS, which automatic update relies on, and it therefore stopped working... apply that patch and suddenly I had about two months' worth of critical updates coming down all at at once).