Google has been dragged into adopting rival Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, which is fallout from an Adobe move last month.
Earlier this week, Google updated its Chrome browser, quashing six bugs and as it often does, also updating Adobe's Flash Player. That same day, Microsoft shipped seven security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, and Adobe released a new version of Flash to address three critical bugs.
It was the Flash patches that triggered Chrome's copycat update: In November, Adobe announced it would synchronize Flash updates with long-time-partner Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Most security experts applauded the decision, which they said was prompted by the bundling of Flash with Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) on Windows 8 and Windows RT.
Those same experts said Adobe's hand was probably forced by Microsoft, which had bumbled this fall when it failed to sync IE10 updates with those shipped by Adobe for Flash.
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