Round two: Microsoft prepares to release Windows 10 October 2018 Update… again!

From helpnetsecurity.com

Thanksgiving comes early this year, but the Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update is coming late. Should we be thankful? Let’s revisit the short history of this release, talk about a serious Bluetooth vulnerability, and look at what may be coming this November Patch Tuesday.

I still expect great things from the Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update. I mentioned in the forecast last month the features I’m particularly happy to see are faster updates with less downtime and smaller downloads for quality updates.

For those of us in the security business, these features alone will save us time, bandwidth, and storage as we update our systems, but it has been a rocky start for this release. Microsoft skipped the normal Release Preview process in early October and released the update during a press conference.

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