Microsoft To Distribute Third-Party Patches

dhiren writes "Secunia on Wednesday announced that their authenticated internal vulnerability scanner, the Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 4.0, has been integrated with Microsoft Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This will hopefully pave the way for other vendors to also make use of Windows' existing patching infrastructure and eliminate the need for the multitude of custom updater applications and services that clutter most systems today."

Comments

Misreading

[AnonGCB]

For a minute I read the headline as "Microsoft to Distribute Eye Patches". With the rate of piracy Microsoft has goin on, I wouldn't be surprised.

This is the first step

[Anonymous Coward]

1. distribute 3rd party packages
2. ???
3. Israel uses your computer to start a world war

notice the lack of profit, very chilling

Re:This is the first step

[Anonymous Coward]

You showed him!

Re:Oh just call it

[Anonymous Coward]

Aww but then those guys in marketing would be all bored with nothing to do...

Re:Oh just call it

[dkleinsc]

But see, a "package manager" is the result of careful research and experience by a bunch of long-haired university-bound communist hippies, so it could never have any usefulness in the real world. Plus it's not a register-able trademark, so customers might realize that there are other better package managers out there. And once they get hooked on apt-get, they'll turn immediately into a clone of RMS and start helping the FSF.

Re:Oh just call it

[melikamp]

FUN FACT:

Quickly pronouncing ASUTTRRUGPHM SE PM three times in a row is the last trial of Microsoft Professional certification, and the one that counts for 90% of the total score.

Re:Oh just call it

[Slashdot Suxxors]

Patchage Manager

Re:Oh just call it

[spazdor]

That happened to my sister. Apparently she's getting way more dates now. Even with the open-source beard.

Re:Compare?

[metrix007]

Because when someone says they "don't do windows" it says a lot about that person.

Someone has to be amazingly closeminded and fundamentalist, and go out of their to avoid the most prevalent consumer OS for the last 10 years.

Re:Oh just call it

[Ihmhi]

If you turn off the lights in the bathroom at night and say that into a mirror three times backwards, Steve Jobs appears behind you and pulls a black turtleneck over your head.

A turtleneck... that you can NEVER REMOVE!

*thunderclap*