Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases. It now plans to issue four security bulletins on Tuesday, rather than the eight originally announced, the software giant said Friday in an updated notice on its Web site.
Three bulletins will contain fixes for Office, at least one of which will be rated "critical," Microsoft said. Critical vulnerabilities typically can allow a worm to spread or allow a Windows system to be fully compromised with minor or no interaction from the person using it. The fourth bulletin, for Windows, is also tagged critical.
On Thursday, Microsoft listed eight bulletins it intended to issue next week in its monthly patch cycle. It appears to have pulled two bulletins for Windows, one for Visual Studio and one for Office. These patches will now likely be released on a future Patch Tuesday.
The company sometimes deviates from the Patch Tuesday advance notification. Last month, for example, it issued one more security bulletin than it had said it would. It has also dropped bulletins, citing quality issues. However, it has never before pulled four bulletins.
View: Updated Release Bulletin
News source: ZDNet
Three bulletins will contain fixes for Office, at least one of which will be rated "critical," Microsoft said. Critical vulnerabilities typically can allow a worm to spread or allow a Windows system to be fully compromised with minor or no interaction from the person using it. The fourth bulletin, for Windows, is also tagged critical.
On Thursday, Microsoft listed eight bulletins it intended to issue next week in its monthly patch cycle. It appears to have pulled two bulletins for Windows, one for Visual Studio and one for Office. These patches will now likely be released on a future Patch Tuesday.
The company sometimes deviates from the Patch Tuesday advance notification. Last month, for example, it issued one more security bulletin than it had said it would. It has also dropped bulletins, citing quality issues. However, it has never before pulled four bulletins.
View: Updated Release Bulletin News source: ZDNet
why sloppy?
you'd rather have buggy security fixes and have your system crash then not have them?
I'm not saying thats why they are pulled, but that could be one of the reasons.
People need to shut their mouths or keyboards when they feel the need to out-burst with random sloppyness comments for no apparent reason and no facts to back their stupidity.
Actually mods, please delete the parent comment above this one, so we can begin the comments on this artical troll free.
Not exactly.
That's a BS comment
Most of the mods I've seen our Pro-MS. Then the rest seem to be Pro-Linux. And none seem to come off as a fanboy of either of the OS's.
They might have caught issues with those 4 updates and pulled them instead of issuing them and having to bring out patch v2 next month and patch v3 the month after that.
Give Microsoft some credit. They're trying to get things done faster now and with better quality.
Just admit you have nothing to base your opinion on at all except that 4 is less than the 8 previously announced. Don't worry, it won't make you look any dumber.
Seriously, we get it.
Would you rather us use "The Vole"?
Would you rather us use "The Vole"?
why not just microsoft. or are you posters planning on saying Apple "way behind in the race giant" in every article
They are obviously trying to say monopoly with actually saying it. Why would you involove crApple in this?
If they add 'Microsoft' instead of software giant, it'll be a grand total of 5 times 'Microsoft' (title included).
Not using the same word all the time, makes your text better.
You make it sound like Neowin is the only site that does it
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