No More Weekly Microsoft Patches

[Hans Arne Iversen]

Microsoft on Thursday announced it would no longer issue weekly software patches for security vulnerabilities as part of a major plan to avoid issuing updates on a "very unpredictable schedule."

Instead of software patches issued every Wednesday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company would release monthly security patches except for emergency situations.

"We have been putting out our patches on a very unpredictable schedule. We will now go to monthly patches -- no more than monthly. If we don't need monthly, we won't have them. But no more than once a month, except for emergency patches which will be made available essentially immediately," Ballmer told a gathering at the inaugural Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.



http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3090001

[phil]

Seems there is an emergency patch every week though :banghead:

[pelligrini]

I really like that newer Auto-download function of theirs though. It saves me a lot of time and effort especially at the office.

Some people would say that MS software is incredibly buggy and has more holes than swiss cheese. I think (know) that all software is buggy, and I believe that MS has done a pretty good job of patching the holes. Most of those patches are security patches closing up tiny, obscure holes that the millions of hackers find while poking into every little nook and cranny.