Microsoft misses Patch Tuesday following ‘last minute issue’. New roll-up patches not going smoothly.
Microsoft has missed Patch Tuesday, following the discovery of a ‘last minute issue’ in the roll-up patches it was due to introduce this month. Microsoft has broken with tradition and delayed the release of February’s Patch Tuesday software updates, following the discovery of what the company has described as a ‘ last minute issue.’
For years, Microsoft has followed a rigorous patching schedule that sees operating system and other software updates released on the second Tuesday of every month – colloquially known as Patch Tuesday, despite Microsoft’s unsuccessful efforts to rebrand the monthly event as Update Tuesday as a means of sidestepping the negative connotations of ‘patch’ as covering ‘holes’ in the software. It typically takes a serious problem for Microsoft to veer from this schedule: out-of-band patches, released between Patch Tuesdays, are few and far between, and it’s unheard-of for the company to skip a Patch Tuesday altogether.
