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Patch Tuesday - Has It Been Abandoned? KB2998527 KB3001554
Has Microsoft abandoned Patch Tuesday? There are certainly no articles announcing it that I can find, yet they've just released two new Windows Updates in the past two weeks. The first update was KB2998527, a patch that adds support for a time zone change taking place in Russia on October 26th. That could have easily waited for an October 7th release. The patch from today, KB3001554, "improve[s] customer experiences in DVD playback in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)."
Neither of these updates require the user to restart, so it's not an interruption unless you're compelled to restart after every update like me. Still, this is very odd behavior for Microsoft. What's the deal?