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Microsoft Delays February Patch Tuesday Indefinitely (sans.edu)

UnderAttack writes: Microsoft today announced that it had to delay its February Patch Tuesday due to issues with a particular patch. This was also supposed to be the first Patch Tuesday using a new format, which led some to believe that even Microsoft had issues understanding how the new format is exactly going to work with no more simple bulletin summary and patches being released as large monolithic updates. Ars Technica notes the importance of this Patch Tuesday as "there's an in-the-wild zero-day flaw in SMB, Microsoft's file sharing protocol, that at the very least allows systems to be crashed." They also elaborate on the way Microsoft is "continuing to tune the way updates are delivered to Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2."

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  1. Re:MS Isn't the only one who sucks at updates by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Translation: I'm a MS shill trying to divert attention from the shit show that is MS updates.

    Google can no more control other manufacturers' updates than MS can control how often manufacturers' provide driver updates.

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