June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

Supersonic1425 writes "The BBC reports that this month's security update from Microsoft will be the one of the biggest this year. Nine of the patches are for Windows — one classed as critical — two are for Office and one for the Exchange e-mail server software." From the article: "At least one of the loopholes being patched is already being actively exploited by malicious hackers. ... Microsoft is not only tackling security problems but also the fallout of a legal case that the software giant lost."

Comments

How much in lost revenue ..

[Anonymous Coward]

How much in lost revenue is all this Microsoft Patching costing the real economy?

MS not supporting what they say they do!

[internewt]

From the article:

At the same time as information about the update was being released, Microsoft mentioned that it will not be able to patch Windows 98 and ME against a loophole discovered in April 2006.

Fixing this bug in the ageing software would require a major re-write of the Windows Explorer program used in these old copies of the operating system.

Microsoft is not prepared to undertake this work, given that all support for Windows 98 and ME ends on 11 July 2006.

So even though Microsoft have stated that they support 98 and ME until 11th July 2006, they will not support those two OSes today?

Yes, people are crazy if they rely on 9x in anyway, but when Gates says he'll support it until a date I'd expect support to be provided, even it means some changes to the shell. And we all know how much exageration is used when a job is being avoided... ("major re-write of the Windows Explorer").