What’s happend with the Microsoft patch day?

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Hello Microsoft

I’m updating the demo environment of our company. As usual in most of IT environments we use a WSUS to manage the Windows updates central.

I remember for times when you knew, the second Tuesday in the month is patchday of Microsoft. You had no work with “normal” hotfixes (exept of Cummulative Updates, Definition Updates, and so on) before and after this patchday.

Since a while you can observe that Microsoft publish hotfixes outside this special day:

(siehe Erscheinungsdatum)

(see publishing date)

Microsoft, I’ll ask you: how should we plan a maintenance window, if we cannot rely on your official patchday?

I can understand if a Security Update for an actual vulnerability is published shortly, but not for other updates…