Aug 12, 2008

"Quality Issue" Holds Media Player Update Back

You might have noticed that when Microsoft released the Advance Notification last week for Patch Tuesday they said there would be 12 updates, 7 of them critical. When Tuesday came around there were only 11 updates, 6 of them critical. Where'd the last critical update go?

In the Microsoft Security Response Center the company answered this, although not in any detail. The withholding of the update was due, the company says, to "a last minute quality issue." It's not the first time this has happened; testing of the updates continues, it seems, even after the advance notification. Chances are that the update, which addressed a flaw in Windows Media Player, will be in the September updates.

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