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Microsoft plans a mega-patch Tuesday
SOFTWARE COBBLER Microsoft plans to send out a record batch of 14 security updates next week to patch 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and Silverlight.
Eight of the 14 software updates are ranked as "critical" while the remaining six are marked as "important".
The count of 34 individual patches equals the monthly record, which was first set last October and repeated in June 2010. Since eight of these are called critical that matches the previous record that the Vole set in October 2009.
It seems that the larger Microsoft updates are landing in even-numbered months and the smaller ones in odd numbered months. Thus we have the impression that patches are being sent out in numbers and on schedules that suit Microsoft's spinners in its PR department rather than its developers or customers.
According to Microsoft's monthly advance notification , the company will deliver 10 updates for Windows, half of them critical and the other five rated important. Two updates will patch one or more critical bugs in IE and Silverlight, while another pair will fix bugs in Microsoft Office.
All versions of Windows are involved, with Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) being the oldest to get a fix. Windows XP is affected by all five Windows-only critical updates, as well as by the critical Internet Exploder and Silverlight fixes.
Windows 7 is not completely unscathed either. Two of the five critical Windows updates apply to the Vole's newest operating system, as do the critical IE and Silverlight patches. All up Windows 7 will receive at least 10 of the 14 planned updates. So much for being a superior operating system.
The Office updates are aimed at flaws in Word and Excel. Both updates also apply to the Mac editions of Word and Excel, even though Mac OS X is supposedly the most secure operating system in the world and never has a problem with malware. µ
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QUOTE: Both updates also apply to the Mac editions of Word and Excel, even though Mac OS X is supposedly the most secure operating system in the world and never has a problem with malware. UNQUOTE
The lack of critical thinking on the part of happy-as-clams Windows droids agreeing with this cheap shot and yet another example of MS shills' all-pervasive FUD isn't surprising. Not having two critical-thinking neurons to rub together, they neither know nor care about the difference between an operating system and MS's typically flawed apps.
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Yes it's lots of work to keep OS's patched especially a bloated mishmash like Windows. In no other OS family is NOT installing patches and anti-virus or anti-spyware considered a huge mistake and unprofessional. Even our W7 is loaded to the teeth with aftermarket protection. And Microsoft's free defense offerings are almost useless if being 6 month or more behind the competition. As far as I'm concerned, I've collected many trojans, viruses and malware to test new products and it barely scratches the surface in comparison to Norton or NOD.
We use Windows out of continuing support for legacy systems. Slowly as more of our systems are going webbased there's less and less reason to stick with it. We've just started tendering new OS purchases from Mac and Linux vendors to see how their enterprise offerings are implemented, managed, etc.
And I just saw an article that alternative OS's are up and Windows is down in the universities and collages by 70%. Windows dominance is dwindling and I see the web and cloud as speeding that market even faster.
Would you argue with us that the sky was green if Steve Jobs told you it was?
Apple has the most security vulnerabilities:
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3894886/Apple-Has-the-Most-Security-Vulnerabilities-Report.htm
Oh yeah, and the iPhone 4 blows as hard as Vista did.
It's interesting that microbuff is releasing these early patches just after dumping XP SP2.
Learned Everything Know About Computers From theINQ. Heres List.
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OK. Now earlier this week theINQ announced early patches of sorts. Tried & Got 55 Mb Worth. As Super Patche Tech, Wow, My Eyes Have Seen GLORY.
Try Update today if auto feature turned off, might get Bit Beter.
vondrashek updated.
Learned Everything Know About Computers From theINQ. Heres List.
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OK. Now earlier this week theINQ announced early patches of sorts. Tried & Got 55 Mb Worth. As Super Patche Tech, Wow, My Eyes Have Seen GLORY.
Try Update today if auto feature turned off, might get Bit Beter.
vondrashek updated.
Surely you jest. Try MVS or VMS. (the latter despite the best efforts of whomever owns the remnants of DEC to kill it off.)