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Microsoft Taking Longer to Fix Flaws

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the taking-your-sweet-time-about-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A look back at the last three years of security patches from Microsoft shows Redmond is taking at least 25 percent longer to issue patches for "critical" vulnerabilities, now averaging around 135 days to issue a fix. The exception appears to be with "full disclosure" flaws, for which Redmond issued fixes in an average of 46 days last year."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    suck it

    1. Re:frist psot by esac17 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      boobies!

  3. Stating the obvious never enough by erroneus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stating the obvious and backing it up wth facts is good. But somehow it never reaches the ears and minds of those who should really know.

    The Sony "infected CDs" is *REALLY* old news and yet just today I had to clean up another machine and it was all new to them. I suppose the state of automotive recalls is just as bad -- after all, I wouldn't generally begin to know where to look, when or even if I should.