Microsoft Restricts Advanced Notification of Patch Tuesday Updates

Posted by timothy on Friday January 9, 2015 @02:28AM 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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Typical by ITRambo · 2015-01-09 02:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

What is the deep thinking that went into this action? Why change the established process at all if it was working? The linked article doesn't give a very good explanation. Now only a select few will get advance warning. Are they afraid that the early information might give "bad guys' a leg up, or are they putting this off to buy themselves a few more days to decide which patches are least likely to cause problems?