Patch Tuesday

As Patch Day for the second Tuesday of each month is called, on which the company Microsoft (english patch ) released its software updates. The Patch Day was introduced in October 2003. Previously, it was common that a patch was placed immediately after its completion and verification via Microsoft Update. Since patches are collected at Microsoft and each usually released until the second Tuesday of each month.

Meanwhile, other companies have adopted the strategy of Microsoft as an example. Since 2005 patches published only quarterly, for example, in Oracle. End of 2005, Adobe also closed and in September 2010, SAP practice at this.

Grounds

Microsoft justifies this change in the security policy so trying to facilitate the work of administrators and their schedule your updates. Previously, updates could appear at any time; with the introduction of patch day is instead now firmly fixed as a day of publication date. Administrators, this allows now to reserve this day to record the updates.

Microsoft has released patches for dangerous vulnerabilities and outside the patch Days ready to minimize the potential danger of serious security vulnerabilities.