



To ensure security, they may have considered blocking Flash for a month, for instance. Flash is considered to be a flagrant security target, so the deferral perhaps became awkward for some organizations. The failure to release was the first such patch delay in nearly 10 years, but the deferral also meant that Microsoft was putting off its Adobe Flash Player fixes. However, those February security updates were deferred till March, possibly because Microsoft had some kind of backend technical glitch happening. Typically, Microsoft would have released these security updates last week with its general "update Tuesday" bundle. In a surprise move, Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to the Adobe Flash Player that's integrated with Windows systems.
