Big Patch Tuesday Coming Next Week
Sysadmins beware! Microsoft is set to deliver 10 security updates on Patch Tuesday next week. The patches, six of which are marked ‘critical', will be for Windows, IE, Word, and Excel and will be the most since October 2008.
Sysadmins beware! Microsoft is set to deliver 10 security updates on Patch Tuesday next week. The patches, six of which are marked ‘critical', will be for Windows, IE, Word, and Excel and will be the most since October 2008.
The six critical updates will patch Windows (which gets two of the updates), IE, Word, Excel and Office. "The red flag is going to be [the] IE [update]." said Storms. "It's critical, it's on all versions [of Windows], and it's even critical in Vista for IE7 and IE8."