Stranger things? The second Tuesday of this month seems mighty strange, after news that Microsoft had to delay the rollout of Patch Tuesday security updates for its software products.
Apparently, due to a last-minute bug.
It seems to be the first time ever the company deviated from its monthly schedule, the first time ever that Patch Tuesday got delayed. And what’s all the more interesting is the fact that Redmond has not exactly provided any concrete information on what exactly went wrong.
Only saying that all updates would be released to Windows systems at a later time.
And this is quite strange, considering the fact that Microsoft has a full month to develop and test these patches. Understandably, this has led to quite a bit of a speculation, including the belief that all this was caused by the cumulative updates for Windows 10.
Microsoft’s increased focus on bundling all updates together as cumulative updates makes it impossible for the company to pull just a single patch, and holding out the entire rollout becomes the only option.
However, Chris Goettl of Shavlik has other ideas:
“Before the cumulative update model, a single patch could be pulled from the release without impacting the entire Patch Tuesday release. Now, speculation as to if this was an issue with one of the cumulative updates that caused this delay is not entirely unfounded, but thinking about this, if it were one update that was broken Microsoft could release everything else. The fact is Microsoft didn’t release anything, which sounds more like an infrastructure issue.”
And according to Amol Sarwate of Qualys:
"This comes on the heels of the announcement that individual patches will not be available as they will be bundled together in the monthly Security update or monthly Cumulative update. If there is a problem in the patch for one kernel vulnerability for example, then all kernel or related vulnerabilities cannot be released as they are bundled together.”
As of right now we have no idea when Microsoft could push these patches for Windows 10 and other platforms, but sources claim that the company is considering the next Tuesday.
But keeping in mind the fact that even January brought only four security patches, this has been a slow start to the new year for Microsoft on this front.
source:windows10update
