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

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."

Comments

Will there still be zero day fixes?

[Joe_Dragon]

Will there still be zero day fixes?

As in small updates for just that one fix mid mouth? and then for full one at the end of mouth?

Re:How about 'Bork my system'day.

[um... Lucas]

I was going to ask if, by bunding updates together like this, is it going to make the lives of security researchers more difficult, as they can't simply diff the changed files of a particular security update? Seems I'm not the only one wondering this...