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Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-another-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft today released ten patches to fix at least 26 separate security holes, including a whopping 16 flaws in Microsoft Office and its constituent apps. According to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog, this is the most number of patches ever released by Redmond outside of a Windows service pack. Also of note, six of today's updates apply to fully patched Windows XP systems, and two of the flaws are actually present in Windows Vista."

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  1. It could have been worse... by xTantrum · · Score: 4, Funny

    It could have been 27!

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    1. Re:It could have been worse... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's 40Mbytes of "patches" this month. Is microsoft working for the broadband companies? That is going to be a real pain to download on dialup. So it seems the killer app for broadband is not video-on-demand or music streaming, it is microsoft patches.

  2. DISASTROUS NEWS ! by unity100 · · Score: 3, Funny

    microsoft introduces 2-3 holes while fixing one .. if they patch up with that speed from now on, it means ... uh oh ...

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  3. Holes by Ice+Wewe · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...In other news, Microsoft plans to patch the 17 holes created by these patches sometime by the end of the month.

  4. Re:Well Guess that means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vista ain't done until Firefox won't run!

    I kid! I kid!

  5. Wowee! We're falling behind! by rolfwind · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought all those studies said that Linux had way more security bugs than Microsoft! The last report had Microsoft at somewhere around 52 security bugs and Linux at several times that.

    If I have my math right:

      52
    -26
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      26 bugs left!

    Microsoft only has to fix them there 26 bugs until Windows is all perfect and flawless!

    *Does a happy dance!*

  6. That's No Medal! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Depends how you look at it. Technically since there was no IE7 in today's patches, IE7 is still pending.
    If they would deliver it, then it wouldn't be pending anymore.

    I know, I know, I deserve the friggin Pedant of the Year medal.
    Pendant, surely?
    1. Re:That's No Medal! by suv4x4 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pendant, surely?

      Ok I give you the medal.

  7. Re:".NET" - a computer "language"?! by Planesdragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    This guy tries to explain to the average reader/non-geek that Microsoft .NET is a "computer language".

    So long as your precompiled code is a combination of English and C, and yet you still prefer to call it a "language", you shouldn't be surprised to hear others mis-use the word just as bad as you.

    C, C++, VB, Java, Perl, Pascal, Javascript, and all the rest are syntaxes, not languages.

  8. Title should read... by Shadyman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft plugs a record 26 security holes; Other 26,000 security holes wanted for questioning.

  9. Re:26 down... by Crunchie+Frog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice masturbation there. Well done.

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