Microsoft's switch to a new strategy of releasing protection updates has failed to take off as scheduled on 14 February.

This signifies there can be no patches this month because the organisation had planned to issue cumulative updates for all versions of cheap windows 10 that it still supports.

Earlier this month, there was news of a fresh zero-day exploit for Windows, targeting the implementation within the SMB3 protocol. This will remain

The enterprise gave no detailed reason for that delay in launching the new method, except to say: "This month, we found a final minute problem that could affect some shoppers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates in the present day.

"After taking into consideration all possibilities, we made the decision to delay this month's updates. We apologise for just about any inconvenience due to this modify to the current strategy."

Microsoft announced in August 12 months that it could be replacing its technique of issuing detailed safety bulletins together with separate patches over the second Tuesday of each and every month.

This came for being known as Patch Tuesday and was meant to give techniques administrators certainty about when to expect patches.

As an alternative, the business stated it will offer a searchable database of assistance documents named the "security updates guide".

The provider also explained there could be cumulative updates for the two Windows 7 and 8.1, from this month onwards. Windows 10 has had cumulative updates from the time it was launched.

Prior to instituting the Patch Tuesday strategy, cheap office 2013 used to dilemma patches as and when needed.

The online world Protection Centre's Johannes Ulrich wrote: "Microsoft delayed the release of all bulletins scheduled for currently. At the moment was supposed to be the 1st month of Microsoft working with its new update practice, which meant that we would no longer see a bulletin summary, and patches could be released as monolithic updates vs. individually. It is actually attainable that this change in technique brought on the delay.

"At this point, we do not know when cheap office 2016 will release its February patches. There is still the unpatched SMB 3 DoS vulnerability that I hoped will be addressed in this round."