[windows2000] Re: Discussion: Microsoft to release patches once per month

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:19:09 +0100

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:40:07 -0500, John Price wrote:

>He said the reason was that WE, the end user, told M$ that M$ was
>overloading us with all these darn patches, so THEY did us a favor and
>cut it back to once a week, and now once a month.

Do they mean that even if a serious security flaw is found, it
won't be posted until the next monthly release??



BW,

Sorin

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