I don't understand why they released this "out-of-band". To me, "out-of-band" updates should be restricted to updates that address "critical" bug and/or "critical" zero-day type security exploits
only. That is, to updates the need to be installed
immediately.
This reminds me of back in the day when I was still in the military, everyone in maintenance started abusing the supply system by ordering replacement parts "Priority". They did this to get the parts delivered faster in order to avoid chalking up excessive "down time" statistics on their records - which they felt made them look bad. This was happening even when "the mission" was still being fully supported with secondary systems, and tertiary systems were still available.
Before long, the entire DoD supply chain was inundated with "Priority" parts which, in effect, slowed down and clogged up the whole system to where Priority became the new "Routine". If you really needed a part because the mission was "down" and no redundancy was available, the part either took excessively long to arrive, or you were forced to order the part "MICAP" - Mission Impaired Capability Awaiting Parts. This ordering status is meant to be used only for "critical", mission is down, outages. This is when folks in Supply drop everything, reach out across the globe to find a replacement part, rush it out to an awaiting plane that then flies it to where it needs to go NOW!
Once at the destination, the responsible technician, who is standing by, waiting for delivery, immediately installs the part and restores the mission back to full capability.
You can easily see how, when abused, this became a HUGE waste of resources (and taxpayers $$$).
Finally, the "big doggies" high up the Logistics ladder put a halt to that practice and everyone had to really justify ordering parts "Priority". If they couldn't, it went out Routine. And what happened? After just a few short weeks, the supply pipeline became unclogged. "Routine" parts started arriving in 3 - 5 days, a week at the most. And "Priority" parts often arrived in 48 hours or less - just like the system was supposed to work.
My point? I see nothing in that KB to indicate this is a "critical", let alone "priority" issue that needs immediate ("out-of-band") release.
What I see is potential "abuse" of the "out-of-band" release process that, if allowed to continue, will
desensitize users to the point they will not take such releases seriously, and therefore will allow their systems to lag behind in updates. And sooner or later, truly critical updates that should be installed immediately, are not.
Has Microsoft forgotten what happened when the boy kept crying "wolf"?
