Patch Tuesday
A fixed mechanism by which Microsoft releases security patches and system updates on the second Tuesday of every month. It serves as a significant vulnerability remediation point in the software industry, covering security updates for Windows and related Microsoft products.
Timeline (last 90 days)
An out-of-band update refers to an ad hoc update that does not follow Microsoft's regular monthly second-Tuesday (Patch Tuesday) release cadence.
Microsoft fixed nearly 1,000 security vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday, making it the largest single update in the company's history.
The number of vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft's recent Patch Tuesday has broken records again.
Patch Tuesday is Microsoft's fixed cadence of releasing security updates on the second Tuesday of every month.