Microsoft's Security Bulletins Will End In February (computerworld.com)

Remember how Microsoft switched to cumulative updates? Now Computerworld points out that that's bringing another change. An anonymous reader quotes their report: Microsoft next month will stop issuing detailed security bulletins, which for nearly 20 years have provided individual users and IT professionals information about vulnerabilities and their patches... A searchable database of support documents will replace the bulletins; that database has been available, albeit in preview, since November on the portal Microsoft dubbed the "Security Updates Guide," or SUG. The documents stored in the database are specific to a vulnerability on an edition of Windows, or a version of another Microsoft product. They can be sorted and filtered by the affected software, the patch's release date, its CVE identifier, and the numerical label of the KB, or "knowledge base" support document.
Redmond Magazine reports that Microsoft still plans to continue to issue its security advisories, and to issue "out-of-band" security update releases as necessary.

Comments

How does this profit Microsoft?

[mmell]

It's going to cost enterprises money to adapt to this change - whether it's for the better or not - because they have to spend time and effort evaluating and redesigning their patch and security management stances.

OTOH, they did manage to make the famous "patch Tuesday" and equally infamous "exploit Wednesday" go away . . . then again, nowadays it seems like every day is "exploit Wednesday".

Detailed?

[aliquis]

All I've ever seen in Windows is kinda "we've patched a bug in Windows ..." and then you could click some link and then you got about the same information and no real details whatsoever.

Maybe a bit more detail than what I said but .. nothing really worth mentioning or interesting.