"Patch previews" from Microsoft

[unixronin]

Microsoft has launched a pilot program for governments and critical infrastructure providers to gain access to in-depth technical information about operating system patches before they are released on the second Tuesday of each month.

I find this bothers me.  What makes the government so special that they should get this information but I shouldn't be able to access it?

Make the information available, or not.  But making it available just to the government and "critical infractructure providers" Because They're Somehow Special is silly.  My infrastructure is crucial to me.  How come I don't rate access to the information?  Who gets to decide whose infrastructure is "crucial"?

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What makes you different?

[novel-tharkun.livejournal.com]

Multi-million (billion?) dollar support contracts and practical guarantees that they'll not be cancelled long into the future.

Also, the ability to set, by fiat or by regulation, the rules by which most business & citizen interactions will occur with each other, including which formats and methods are acceptable, unacceptable, or simply unsupported.