Microsoft to help users prep for patching
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft will give customers advance notice of its monthly security updates in an effort to help them prepare to install related software patches, the company announced Thursday.
Starting this month, Microsoft will publish on its Web site a summary of planned security bulletins three days before they are released in their entirety. The summary will include information on which products are affected by updates, and severity ratings for security problems. The company normally releases security bulletins on the second Tuesday of each month. It previously offered customers who signed up through support personnel advanced notifications, but the information was not published for all customers.