Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday

CWmike writes "Microsoft said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix 13 flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and Forefront Security client software. Among the updates will be the first for the final, or release to manufacturing, code of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system. The 13 updates slated for next week, eight of them pegged 'critical,' beat the previous record of 12 updates shipped in February 2007 and again in October 2008." Update Reader Kurt Seifried writes to correct the math a bit, pointing to Microsoft's Advance Notification page for the release, which says that rather than 13 flaws, this Patch Tuesday involves "13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities ... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning."

Comments

Re:The more crap you add...

[Joce640k]

Maybe Linux is "faster" but at least with Windows I won't have to go in and manually recompile my webcam driver when it's finished updating.

Fire and forget

[westlake]

It's a very good security strategy to piss off all your customers with WGA and Windows Media bullshit until they all turn off automatic updates.

The geek is pissed off by what to anyone else is over and done with one or two clicks of the mouse.