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Microsoft to Release 6 Security Updates Next Week

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the on-the-horizon dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with an article that leads: "Microsoft will release six groups of security patches next week, including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users. The critical updates will fix bugs in many different versions of Microsoft's products including the latest versions of Excel, Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft said."

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  1. Ok and... by svendsen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why is there an article about patches anymore? Everything gets patched... Windows / Linux / OS X / a few hundred thousand applications that run on them.

    Slashdot all the news about iPhone and patches that you have ever dreamed of....

  2. Patch Tuesday = no work for an hour or two by simong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of the joys of working for a big company is the splendid way in which a large patch distribution nails network bandwidth and pulls down every machine in the office while it is installed. I'm not sure who's at fault here but they sure ain't the sharpest tool in the box.

  3. Re:And ... by MoonFog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could be because a large portion of Slashdot's readers are sysadmins and chances are that many of them are administrating Windows machines at work?

  4. Bring on the news! by Gription · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real point is why is this considered news that needs to be released to /. ?
    They have released this quantity of patches before...
    Often...

    This is like walking outside and exclaiming in surprise, "Look everybody! There's still air out here!!!"