Microsoft Delays February Patch Tuesday Indefinitely (sans.edu)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @10:00AM from the until-further-notice dept.

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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Re:Sigh by Desler · 2017-02-14 10:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe ask the Slashdot coders? They've been incompetent since 1997 so would have plenty of insight.
Re:Sigh by Penguinisto · 2017-02-14 10:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Wait... what did you mean by "suddenly"?

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Re:Sigh by Hognoxious · 2017-02-14 12:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Did you know it's impossible to patch a fresh Win7 install via normal Windows Update?
Yes. Luckily it's easy to download the updates manually at another computer.
Ha! I lied, it isn't.

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