14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft last week announced that, due to a change in Canada's anti-spam law, it would no longer send security email notifications that are usually issued on Patch Tuesday to subscribed customers.
However, the company reverted this decision and revealed today that it would actually continue sending these security emails in the future, despite the new Canadian law.
“On June 27, 2014, Microsoft notified customers that we were suspending Microsoft Security Notifications due to changing governmental policies concerning the issuance of automated electronic messaging. We have reviewed our processes and will resume these security notifications with our monthly Advanced Notification Service (ANS) on July 3, 2014,” the company said in a statement.
Even though it previously recommended users to turn to its RSS feed in order to stay up to date with what's happening on the security front at Microsoft, the company says that both the email and the RSS channels remain available for everyone.
The next Patch Tuesday takes place on July 8, so expect Microsoft to start sending the advance email notification of the updates to be launched next week this Thursday, as it usually does every single month when it prepares updates for its customers, no matter what products they are running.