He also controversially suggested companies only patch their computers once per year. If you can patch 100 per cent you will be protected against a lot of threats but nobody does or can patch 100 per cent," said Tippett.
Microsoft said last week to expect 11 patches but a company representative on Tuesday said that one of the fixes, a critical patch to Windows, "did not meet the quality bar" and will be part of next month's updates.
In a white paper released late on Wednesday, the software giant identified four areas where it plans to make improvements over the next 12 months: in patch quality, in delivering information to its customers, in broadening the number of...
Microsoft is set to today push out a fix to repair problems caused by last week's emergency cursor flaw patch. Microsoft broke with its monthly patch cycle to repair a bug in the way Windows handles animated cursors.
Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release a new version of a "critical" security patch for Windows to repair problems some people had with the first version of the fix. The updated patch will be made available on Microsoft's online updating service...
On the Windows front, security companies recently noticed a variant of an exploit for a flaw that Microsoft had previously patched, and Tuesday's updates could also contain patches that address that variant.
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