Advanced notice of Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes is no longer free

From now on if you want to see what patches Microsoft is going to issue on Patch Tuesday you’ll have to pay for it.

The company’s Advanced Notification Service – the Thursday postings that thumbnailed the security bulletins the company would issue on Patch Tuesday – will only be available to Premier customers. For the past 10 years the service has been free to anyone who wanted to subscribe.

“Moving forward, we will provide ANS information directly to Premier customers and current organizations involved in our security programs, and will no longer make this information broadly available through a blog post and web page,” according to a post by Chris Betz, the senior director, of Microsoft’s Security Response Center.

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