Microsoft serves light fare on Patch Tuesday
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No critical patches for most Windows users Microsoft served comparatively modest fare for its monthly patch release on Tuesday, issuing only four security-related updates, only one of which carried its top severity rating of critical. It plugged a hole in a Windows 2000 component, while the other updates fixed vulnerabilities rated as important in instant messenger programs, Visual Studio .Net and Windows services for Unix found on several different versions of the Windows operating system.â¦
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December's Patch Tuesday finds Vista in bad guys' sights. Plus: Get Office 2007 SP1, get your fix for Flash, and avoid an HP laptop disaster.
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Microsoft plans to issue twelve patches next Tuesday, five of which deal with issues in its Office productivity suite.
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Microsoft's technical support personnel only just this week discovered that its various patches for Windows, Exchange Server, Outlook, and other tools should be installed in a precise order, otherwise they may not actually be patching networks to properly deal with the upcoming Daylight Savings Time shift, now one week earlier.
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"Patch Tuesday," when Microsoft Corp. releases repairs for problems in its software, came and went this week with six critical fixes &#151; including the first one that touches Vista, the new operating system billed as the most secure Windows version yet.
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Microsoft has started to send out its latest major security patch to home PCs--but some people won&#39;t get it for a while.
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OCTOBER 15, 2004  - Microsoft Corp.&#39;s move to a monthly patch-release cycle one year ago this month has made it easier to install security updates for Windows and other products, IT managers said this week -- even as they were greeted with
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This month's Patch Tuesday will be a light one in comparison with those before it, with only three updates due next week. However, Microsoft's patch for Office shouldn't be taken lightly; its rating will be "Critical," the company said Thursday.
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Customers using Microsoft products that have entered their "Extended" support phase will need to fork over $4,000 for a patch that makes the software compatible with the new March 11 date for Daylight Saving Time (DST), according to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
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Microsoft Corp.  released on Tuesday a patch for its latest "critical" rated security flaw affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software programs.
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As part of its new advance warning policy, Microsoft on Thursday said next week&#39;s regularly-scheduled patch day will feature five fixes for Windows, none of them more severe than &quot;Important.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O released on Tuesday a patch for its latest &quot;critical&quot; rated security flaw affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software programs.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7&#39;s phishing filter ahead of the company&#39;s regular patching schedule, which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month.
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Microsoft plans to issue two security updates for its Windows operating system products next Tuesday as part of its regular software patch cycle.The updates were pre-announced Thursday morning on Microsoft&#39;s Web site in order to give IT staffers a sense of how busy they will be next week installing the patches.One of the updates is considered critical for Windows Vista and XP users because the flaw it fixes could be used by attackers to install unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer. This update is rated important for Windows Server 2003 users and considered moderate for Windows 2000 users.The second update, rated important for all Windows users, could allow an attacker to run software with a higher level of privilege on a system than would normally be allowed.Microsoft did not provide any technical details on the updates.With just two updates scheduled, January will be a light month by Microsoft&#39;s standards. In 2007 the company shipped 69 software updates, an average of just under six per month.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O released on  Tuesday a patch for its latest "critical" rated security flaw  affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software  programs.
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In what could be the quickest patch ever to be released by Microsoft, the company on Tuesday publicly issued a fix for the highly-publicized Vector Markup Language (VML) vulnerability that surfaced last week and was being actively exploited by numerous attacks.
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Four security bulletins issued today patch just four vulnerabilities in Windows, Visual Studio, and the MSN and Windows Live Messenger software.