Windows 10 Ditches Patch Tuesday for Security's Sake
With roughly 50 million lines of code, Windows is bound to have some bugs, and some of those bugs are bound to affect security. When flaws are found, Microsoft issues patches as fast as possible, but those patches do no good if you fail to apply them. Even if you're diligent, Patch Tuesday comes just once a month, so a vulnerability discovered the day after Patch Tuesday won't be patched until the next Patch Tuesday rolls around. At Microsoft's Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft Executive VP Terry Myerson surprised his audience with the news that in Windows 10, Patch Tuesday will no longer exist (for consumers, anyway).
Microsoft plans to push out patches to Windows 10 users as soon as the fixes are ready, on a 24/7 basis, potentially reducing the time that PCs might vulnerable to threats by as much as a month. This new system includes all devices running Windows 10, be they PCs, tablets, or smartphones. Myerson noted that Windows 10's update system "will also be regularly delivering ongoing Windows innovation in addition to security updates."
