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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."
Does this mean that my Windows 3.1 box will finally get the DST update?
13 patches released at 13:00 of Tuesday 13. Windows sysadmins that day will have to pass below ladders, see a black cats cross in front of them and then break a mirror. But that will be nothing. The worst part will be when they turn on the computer, and see that windows is still running.
Nope, that doesn't require a patch; it was built into the original release ...
Will it make every PC that uses windows ME self-destruct?
Not likely, PC's running Windows ME probably don't have the power to do more than to self fizzle at most. I would personally be impressed if they let out the smallest little puff of smoke. I think the reality would be that they just refuse to power up due to shame.
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Yes, those users, too. ;)
Nope, that doesn't require a patch; it was built into the original release ...
Yup. The hard drive with ME installation will jump out from the chasis, climb the refrigerator and rub itself all over the magnets.
Face your daemons!
Does it fix the problems with Windows 7? After reading this review of a pre-release download, I'm a bit hesitant to use it.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
So where are the instructions for the patch party?
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Or at least patches to Win2K would be nice, maybe some working timezone data.
I also would highly recommend Microsoft release patches for Windows 3.11 to fix flaws in Win32s, and perhaps add IPv6 to Wolverine (winsock 1.1 for Windows for Workgroups)
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