Windows 10 will mean the death of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft executives said this week, as Microsoft moves to a steady stream of patches that aren’t confined to one particular day.
At the Ignite conference this week, Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s executive vice president of operating systems, promised a “steady stream of innovation over time every month.” Microsoft will not be delivering updates on a single day of the month, he said, but as Microsoft prepares them and rolls them out.
That could mean, for example, that as Microsoft evaluates and formulates a response to a so-called “zero-day” bug, that the patch could be in users’ hands almost as soon as it’s ready. (Patch Tuesday typically occurs on the second Tuesday of every month, when Microsoft releases patches for its products.) Myerson promised that Microsoft security researchers are following up on each and every potential security issue that is brought to their attention.
