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Microsoft Skips Patch Tuesday
maotx writes "According to their recently released security bulletin, Microsoft will skip this month's Patch Tuesday. Patch Tuesday, also known as Black Tuesday amongst Administrators, is the second Tuesday of every month, in which Microsoft releases a series of patches and critical updates for its various operating systems and applications."
TFA article clearly says that they're issuing several updates right on schedule this coming Tuesday.
They are delaying a security update that was previoiusly scheduled for Tuesday. They're delaying it because they found some problems during late testing. Good on 'em for that.
Aside from that, the rest of the updates will be issued as scheduled.
Just so it gets said, they set this schedule because large corporate customers demanded it, and they're happy with it. In case this is the first time you noticed, they've been doing this for almost 2 years I think. Oracle does something similar, on a quarterly basis. Having a regular schedule (with some warning in advance of which products are affected and how many updates there are) allows them to plan for patching in advance.
The fact that they have a schedule doesn't preclude them from issuing an "out of cycle" update, which they have done 2, maybe 3 times.