14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft celebrates the 10th anniversary of Patch Tuesday this month, so the company most likely struggled to make sure that no botched updates are being delivered this time.
While it turns out that at least one buggy bulletin was shipped to users in October, it appears that some users are actually afraid to install Patch Tuesday updates and prefer to wait until they make sure that nothing is messed up with the fixes.
Several posts on Facebook, Twitter, and even on Microsoft’s Community forums indicate that some users have actually disabled Windows Update and postponed the installation of new patches until they make sure that everything is alright.
Here’s a post we found on the company’s support forums and perfectly describing the way some consumers now see Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update cycle:
“I noticed that yesterday was Patch Tuesday and I have held off updating my Windows 7 PC given than in the last three Patch Tuesdays the updates have broken something inside Windows. I haven't heard an uproar in the internet so my guess is that this Patch Tuesday has been perceived as uneventful.
My hope is that the latter is the case, because I have had to hold Windows updates for more than 3 weeks in the last months due to the problems that have occurred in the last three Patch Tuesdays, and it is an action that is not recommended given that many Windows Updates address security issues.”
Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that all Patch Tuesday are delivering botched updates, but it’s pretty clear that the problems experienced by users lately have affected the company’s image.
Microsoft needs to pay much more attention to the updates it ships to users, as Patch Tuesday was, is and will continue to be the most important day of each month for millions of Windows clients out there.