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Microsoft Restricts Advanced Notification of Patch Tuesday Updates

wiredmikey writes Microsoft has decided to ditch its tradition of publicly publishing information about upcoming patches the Thursday before Patch Tuesday. The decision represents a drastic change for the company's Advance Notification Service (ANS), which was created more than a decade ago to communicate information about security updates before they were released. However, Microsoft's "Premier customers" who still want to receive information about upcoming patches will be able to get the information through their Technical Account Manager support representatives, Microsoft said.

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  1. Re:Typical by ganjadude · · Score: 2, Informative

    thats a good point as well. Making hard deadlines for software is generally a bad idea

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