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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. well thank god by witte · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... at least now we will be safe !

  2. Let's help the subbys and editors with this chore. by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Patch Release Announcement
    (Slashdot Standard Form #97)

    Microsoft will release [$COUNT] security patches

    [ ] Today
    [ ] Tomorrow
    [ ] Next Week
    [ ] When they goddam say so

    Including [$NUMCRITICAL] critical updates for

    [ ] Windows
        [ ] XP
        [ ] 2000
        [ ] Server 2000
        [ ] Server 2003
        [ ] Vista
    [ ] Linux (..sorry, just kidding!)
    [ ] Word
    [ ] Excel
    [ ] Access
    [ ] PowerPoint
    [ ] Bob
    [ ] Internet Explorer
    [ ] Outlook
    [ ] Outlook Express
    [ ] Exchange
    [ ] DOS 6.22
    [ ] All of the above

    A spokesperson said "We take a very serious view of or responsibilities to ensure that the Microsoft computing experience is safe and secure for all our valued customers - and these updates show our commitment to that goal"

    When what they really meant to say was...

    [ ] Fsck, we just found some more stuff we missed during beta testing.
    [ ] We never thought someone would try THAT
    [ ] Yeah, we were kinda hoping we could keep that one quiet but then some geeky, long-haired nerd had to go and post about it on teh Internets.

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  3. Why is this news again? by Toreo+asesino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does everyone here secretly run Windows systems, or is this another MS-bashing opportunity? Can we have security fixes released for Linux kernel published too please? I think that might be more relevant for the practical purposes this article was no doubt published...

    I mean, Christ, it's almost like everyone here hates Microsoft or something!

    Wait a minute....

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  4. Re:Let's help the subbys and editors with this cho by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Slashdot Standard Rely #42)
    This doesn't affect me because I run

    [] OSX
    [] Linux
    [] Multix
    [] CP/M

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  5. 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....

  6. This is just great! by CaptainZapp · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Time to patch my Laptop (Samsung, XP Pro legally licensed). There's only one problem with that:

    When I start Windows Update it informs me that it needs updating. Attempting to do so leads to a carped update with some error code. In short: Without the "improved" version of the software no more Windows update for me and since getting the "improved" version fails to install in the first place...

    This seems to be a known problem for which there doesn't ssem to be a fix yet. And no! Re-installing the OS is not and option since this toasts my Ubuntu partition.

    Microsoft is a company that pisses me off more and more on a daily basis. Thank you for listening.

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  7. 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.

  8. 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?

  9. In other news... by pete.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in...

    The sun will be rising in the east today and setting in the west. We will continue to cover this breaking news as more details come to light.

  10. Re:Hmmmn by Ephemeriis · · Score: 3, Informative

    "the typical setup of X machines being shoehorned into 1 IP doesn't have a single benefit"

    If that were true then it wouldn't be done. If it weren't being done then everyone in an office would need their own public IP to connect to the net? It's a benefit to be able to firewall traffic at one point rather than doing the same checks on every machine as well.
    The benefit is that it allows us to continue using IPv4 with relatively few problems. It allows ISPs to keep from running out of static IP addresses. And that is only a 'benefit' because IPv4 is more-or-less broken at this point.

    Just because a PC has a public IP doesn't mean you don't need a firewall or router. It doesn't mean you'd be doing all your firewalling on the individual PCs. You'd still route your traffic through a central box and do your checks there instead of on every machine.

    I'm not going to say NAT is completely bad all the time. It's a handy little hack. But that's exactly what it is - a hack to keep IPv4 alive. And doing away with NAT would eliminate a lot of headaches that cramming dozens of PCs into one public IP address has created. Of course...we'd get other headaches in exchange... But nothing is perfect.
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  11. 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!!!"