It's Patch Tuesday, the Microsoft Office Team Promises It'll Be Better than Last Month

Gray Knowlton has taken to his Microsoft Office blog today to explain some of the reasons behind September's painful updates and promise that things have been adjusted internally to better ensure more quality releases.

In the post, Gray acknowledges that September's woes were partly due to internal timing issues. There were changes that had to be made to the updates just prior to release and the changes themselves actually caused a worse situation.

Here's what the Microsoft Office team has implemented in an effort to fix the horrors of Patch Tuesday:

Read the full post:  A comment about September and October 2013 Patch Tuesday

Of note, though, the last full paragraph of the post relates to something we've been hearing all along. Since Microsoft has instituted a Cloud-first focus for development, it makes sense that their Click-to-Run technology actually works better now than the MSI methods. This is another in a long line of "if you were running Cloud versions, you'd have no problem." But, it also highlights a problem that will continue to fester and grow over time, as Microsoft silently attempts to push on-premise services and applications to the Cloud.

As always, if you experience any issues with this month's patches, let me know.