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Security community questions wisdom of decision to hide update information



From V3:
The change relates to the Advance Notification Service (ANS) that provided organisations with information about upcoming Patch Tuesday releases.

ANS gave businesses the chance to assess how the updates could affect their systems, and stop any update that could cause problems.

However, Chris Betz, senior director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, said in a blog post that the company believes the majority of customers do not need the ANS information and let the updates happen automatically.
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