Talk:Patch Tuesday

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message: Patch Tuesday is an unofficial term used to refer to when Microsoft regularly releases security patches for its software products. It is widely referred to in this way by the industry.
I get why this is written this way, but there comes a point where a word is simply stretched too far, and we are verging on the rupture point here concerning the word "official".  
Patch Tuesday is more properly thought of as a de facto industry-wide expression concerning a Microsoft policy that sends shock waves through the industry on the scale of an elephant—let's call her Mommy Matilda—taking a scheduled dump on an Antz hill (as viewed from the perspective of Woody Allen). 
I've been reading Slashdot for nearly twenty years, and I can't recall seeing any other term in all that time, since early days in its inception. (Cleaning up all the crass language directed by the lower echelons at Microsoft's scheduled shit show would make even Hercules blanch, and maybe take a mulligan on his job-jar labour of the day.)  
As for Microsoft's endorsement of this de facto terminology on the ground, who cares? They aren't ANSI. They aren't IANA. They aren't W3C. They aren't NIST. They aren't the DOD. They aren't even Websters. 
Proposal: 
Patch Tuesday is an industry-wide de facto term used to refer to when Microsoft regularly releases security patches for its software products, although the term has never been formally recognized by Microsoft. 
Ah, but this is Wikipedia, so we can't write that the dog didn't bark in the night (that would ineluctably remain "citation needed" for ever and a day). 
You know, if there's a thing about Wikipedia worse than it's inability to point to the thundering thud of the absence of evidence, I don't what that would possibly be. 
Oh, but some pundit could write "isn't it weird how Microsoft has never officially endorsed the term 'Patch Tuesday' " (hey, we could cite that). Yes, we could, if the pundit wanted to talk to her audience like children who can't even count an elephant's four legs (while standing under the elephant [added by edit] as the two hind legs buckle ominously at the knees)—and in so doing conspicuously displaying no great desire to remain a pundit much longer. 
However, despite the glaring CLM loophole, the rest of the logic here is absolutely watertight so far as Wikipedia's internal culture is concerned (and well it should be, because there's going to be a great associated flood, too). 
Nevertheless, I thought I'd drop by and point out that the use of the word "official" in this context is officiously ridiculous. — MaxEnt 18:26, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much queasy genuflect in the use of the word "official" 

message: This is still WP:OR, but updates for Microsoft Office also occur on the fourth and sometimes the first Tuesday of the month. tgeorgescu (talk)  20:17, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Tuesdays