Viz Vista by Ed Tittel

The second Tuesday in each month is when Microsoft schedules its patches, fixes, and security updates. Recently, Microsoft has begun to offer Advance Notification for its Security Bulletins, which makes it a lot easier to tell what's coming down the pike. For December, 8 updates have been pushed to the Windows Update servers

Last night when I was quitting for the day, after 11 PM, I noticed that the autoupdate function in Windows Update had posted two more items to my primary production PC. Both look interesting, but so far I've had some trouble trying to ferret out more details about one of these two patches.

Normally, Microsoft reserves its security patches, fixes, updates, and other software tweaks and maneuvers for the second Tuesday in each month, aka "Patch Tuesday." Yesterday afternoon I was somewhat surprised to see various sources trumpeting the release of an out-of-schedule security patch through Windows Update on the fourth Thursday in October.

The second Tuesday of every month is also known as "Patch Tuesday," because that's the day when Microsoft normally releases its security updates, along with other patches and fixes for its various Windows operating systems, applications, and so forth. Yesterday was the second Tuesday in September, and Windows Update proffered 10 items, most of which are described in the Security Bulletin for that month.Here, I'm going to focus in on one non-security update entitled "Update for Windows Vista (KB955302)".