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Microsoft Restricts Advanced Notification of Patch Tuesday Updates

Posted by timothy on from the you'll-find-out-eventually dept.

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: 4, Interesting

    if I had to guess, it might to be not tip off the cyber criminals using the exploits that will be patched. its the only logical reason I can think of

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  2. Re:In other words. . . by ganjadude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i really dont think windows 7 made it harder to find things, in fact quite the opposite. Between the expanded functionality in the start menu over XP and previous versions, and the faster indexing making search usable finally. Im with you on windows 8 however, it, to me is useless without classic shell installed

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