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Re: CNET: Monthly Microsoft patches  Ian Kingston
 Oct 25, 2003 23:44 PDT 

espr-@e-scape.net wrote:

 I'm definitely of two minds about Microsoft's latest security
strategy, which consists of *not* signalling critical flaws
when they are discovered but holding the information for a
monthly release. Perhaps it will educate people into doing
a monthly update but ...

I doubt that anyone who didn't see the 'weekly' updates will pay any
more attention to the monthly ones. And Microsoft fouled up the first
monthly releases: two of them didn't work properly on some foreign
language versions of Windows, so they had to be reissued a week later.

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