Microsoft Corp. today patched 28 vulnerabilities, nearly all of them marked "critical," in the biggest batch of fixes it has issued since it switched to a regular monthly update schedule more than five years ago. Of the 28 bugs quashed today, Microsoft ranked 23 of them critical, the top rating in its four-step scoring system. Of the five others, three were judged to be "important", the next step down, and two were pegged as "moderate". The patches were issued in eight updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SharePoint, Windows Media, and the company's most popular development tools, Visual Basic and Visual Studio. This month's eight security updates can be downloaded and installed via the Microsoft Update and Windows Update services, as well as through Windows Server Update Services.Rico asks, if you code is so bad that you have to have a regular weekly update to fix the 'critical' bugs, why the hell would anyone in their right mind use it?
10 December 2008
Patch Tuesday? Who knew?
ComputerWorld has a blog by Richi Jennings and others on the latest "huge, steaming pile" from Microsoft:
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