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Microsoft to Release 6 Security Updates Next Week
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."
... at least now we will be safe !
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.
AT&ROFLMAO
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....
throw new NoSignatureException();
(Slashdot Standard Rely #42)
This doesn't affect me because I run
[] OSX
[] Linux
[] Multix
[] CP/M
init 11 - for when you need that edge.
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....
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.
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?
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.
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!!!"