Microsoft Security Bulletins November 2016 for more info go here http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/08/microsoft-security-bulletins-november-2016/
g_arm:so now how will we know when there are troublesome Microsoft updates?
Hi g_arm:
Woody Leonhard's articles on his Woody on Windows InfoWorld blog are a great source of information about potential problems with buggy Windows updates, and he always informs his readers when it's safe to patch - see his 03-Jan-2017 article Time to update Windows and Office about the December 2016 Patch Tuesday updates for one example.
His AskWoody.com site is more interactive (there's lots of good feedback from other knowledgeable readers) and he has a simple MS-DEFCON rating displayed at the top left of that site where MS-DEFCON 1 means "Current Microsoft patches are causing havoc. Don't patch", MS-DEFCON 3 means "Patch reliability is unclear, but widespread attacks make patching prudent. Go ahead and patch, but watch out for potential problems.", and MS-DEFCON 5 means "All’s clear. Patch while it’s safe."
Further to my post <here>, Woody also posted a second article on 10-Nov-2016 titled Microsoft to revamp its documentation for security patches about the new searchable database in Microsoft's Security Updates Guide and its associated Software Update Summary that will replace the old monthly Security Bulletin Summaries in February 2017.
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g_arm:so now how will we know when there are troublesome Microsoft updates? as in the community users warnings that sometimes will come out
That very question is why, for many many users, Microsoft decided not to give choices since most of us don't know how to find out!
Being able to delay, as the next major upgrade will introduce providing you are not using Windows Home (groan), does mean that those who worry about this can wait a while and either read about problems or hope that Microsoft will fix them before we do update.
Let's hope they change their minds about this and make it available to all -- there's a couple of months yet.
I've updated both my Windows 10 installations, one Home and one Pro, and not had any problems apart from how slow the Jan updates took to do.
so now how will we know when there are troublesome Microsoft updates? as in the community users warnings that sometimes will come out
https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/microsoft-patch-tuesday-november-2016
http://winsupersite.com/microsoft/we-read-security-bulletins-so-you-dont-have-to
adding to Posted: 08-Nov-2016 | 10:30PM
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/09/microsoft-to-retire-security-bulletins-january-2017
According to Woody Leonhard's recent post A new way of displaying monthly security patches, December 2016 will be the last month that Microsoft publishes a monthly Security Bulletin.
As of January 2017, update information will be posted in the Security Updates Guide database. I looked at the sample Software Update Summary for the November 2016 Patch Tuesday updates and it's not very user friendly - you have to click the link to each KB article to see the title (i.e., the general description) of the update.
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