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Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the batch-Tuesday? dept.

There was something unique about this week's Patch Tuesday. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes HelpNetSecurity: It was the last traditional Windows Patch Tuesday as Microsoft is moving to a new patching release model. In the future, patches will be bundled together and users will no longer be able to pick and choose which updates to install. Furthermore, these new 'monthly update packs' will be combined, so for instance, the November update will include all the patches from October as well.
Last month a Slashdot reader asked for suggestions on how to handle the new 'cumulative' updates -- although the most common response was "I run Linux."

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  1. In other words.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "You want security patches? Welp, you're gonna have to accept Telemetry too."

    1. Re:In other words.. by Z00L00K · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And this is what's most worrying, we don't really know what's in "Telemetry", and I have a feeling that it's going to be a problem.

      And we can't figure out which part of a future monolithic patch that actually causes the system to behave bad, some patches aren't even possible to uninstall without a lot of hard work.

      --
      If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
  2. response by markdavis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >"Last month a Slashdot reader asked for suggestions on how to handle the new 'cumulative' updates -- although the most common response was "I run Linux.""

    Yep, still run Linux...
    I install whatever I want, whenever I want, however I want, on what I want. My machine belongs to me.