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Microsoft to Release 7 Patches Next Week

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-quite-a-lot-of-patching dept.

craters writes "Microsoft plans to release 7 patches next week for Windows and Office. From the article: 'In the monthly pre-patch notification it sends out five days prior to unveiling fixes, Microsoft said that at least two of the seven will be rated Critical, which by the company's definition means that the vulnerability can be remotely exploited.'"

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  1. Re:Windows 2000? by MadTinfoilHatter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone know when the date is when MS will stop making security patches for Windows 2000?

    Windows 2000 will be supported for 5 + 5 years since it's an enterprise product. Home level products are supported for 5 + 0 years (except XP Home which got two years more to live.) See http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy for details.

  2. Re:Windows 2000? by jproudfo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Security updates will be available until Windows 2000 leaves the Extended Support phase of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle. According to http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sor t=PN&alpha=windows+2000, that's in 2010.

  3. Re:I hope it's not business as usual... by MSFanBoi2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just checked, you are not correct.

    There have been 27 critical and high level patches released for Windows 2000, since SP4 was released. Which are a total of just over 31 MB in size.

    SP4 itself is 132 MB.

    The Windows 2000 Server base install is just over 1.3 GB with most of the standard features.

    132+31=163, which is far FAR short of 1.3 GB.

    FUD possibly?

  4. Re:Released Early by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey dumb ass, before you were even born NextStep (MacOS X) had it's own directory authorization system that kicks ass over AD

    Hey dumb ass, before you were even born English (American) used the words "its" for posession and "it's" as a contraction of it is.

    NeXTStep is sexy but you if you buy them in any kind of quantity you can get PCs for half what you pay for macs. At least, ones useful for business. The imac is a bitch to even get into (the new one especially) and that's just not supportable if you have more than a handful of machines.

    Windows sucks, sure, but I'm not sure OSX on Macintosh is the answer. In fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't.

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  5. Do i have to switch channels? by threedognit3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    CooL...I have automatic updates. Nothing here to see.