swa66
msg:3624644 | 3:43 pm on Apr 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
"Patch Tuesday" isn't the industry term AFAIK (unless with the MSFT fanboys perhaps) , "Black Tuesday" sounds much more familiar. The best overview of MSFT patches is available every month on the Internet Storm Center (ISC) of SANS.
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bill
msg:3625062 | 1:10 am on Apr 12, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The term "Patch Tuesday" has become quite common among system administrators and other IT professionals who work with Windows. It simply denotes the day on which MS regularly releases updates/fixes. This is an improvement for many who previously had to deal with these changes on a unpredictable schedule. Your sarcasm is misdirected.
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Visit Thailand
msg:3625089 | 2:05 am on Apr 12, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Don't you think Mircrosoft should start doing their updates twice a month (at least). Surely that would be a possibility and would not cause too much more work for them. I still do not know why they can't do updates as they happen just like AV software.
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bill
msg:3625194 | 7:26 am on Apr 12, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| I still do not know why they can't do updates as they happen just like AV software. |
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They used to do it that way and they still do publish updates outside this schedule if the fix is critical enough. It's mainly done for the convenience of corporate System Administrators. I hadn't read it before, but there's an entire article about Patch Tuesday on Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org].
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kaled
msg:3625251 | 10:25 am on Apr 12, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| I still do not know why they can't do updates as they happen just like AV software. |
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The size and complexity of OS patches is (or can be) far greater than anti-virus software. I've never studied AV software in depth, but I think most updates only affect the virus definition database. Something like that is easy, you don't have to perform compatibility tests, etc. However, when you are updating operating system program code, there is a potential that it will kill systems stone dead if you get it wrong. This being the case, a monthly cycle is reasonable. Kaled.
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