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Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 10, 2006 @12:22PM 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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Apple's last patch fixed 24 and was over 200 MB. by MSFanBoi2 · 2006-10-10 13:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, at least Microsoft is fixing them.

Microsoft has bugs, people complain.

Microsoft fixes the bugs, people complain.

Apple releases an incremental update to OS X 10.2 to 10.3 and charge you for it ($129.00), and when they release a MASSIVE update in September, not a peep of complaints...