BREAKING: Microsoft Holding Off On Today’s Patch Tuesday Release
Today is Patch Tuesday. That’s the day that Microsoft releases updates and fixes that ensure that all your Microsoft software won’t get pwned by hackers. Oh yeah, some bugs might also get fixed along the way. But if you’re responsible for deploying these updates in your company, you likely have the rest of the afternoon off based on this:
Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems. This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates today.
After considering all options, we made the decision to delay this month’s updates. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change to the existing plan.
Interesting. There’s no word on when any updates that were planned to be released today will actually be released. But you have to assume that something major happened for Microsoft to take this step as it is not only highly unusual, it’s never happened before.
UPDATE: Microsoft says any patches that were due to be released will come out on March 14, 2017.
February 22, 2017 at 11:14 am
[…] There’s some really strange behavior going on in Redmond these days. After not delivering their monthly stack of patches on Patch Tuesday for the first time that I can recall, the company has now released a patch to address a Adobe Flash vulnerability in Windows 8.1 and up as Flash patches are delivered by Microsoft and not Adobe in those operating systems. Specifically this one that I highlighted here last week. But the weird part is that an exploit that is in the wild that I spoke about recently is left unpatched. Seeing as that exploit is the more serious of the two, you’d think that Microsoft would do something about that first or at the same time as released this Adobe Flash fix. But I guess they’re waiting for March to deal with it as they’ve previously announced. […]