Microsoft will release eight patches this Tuesday
On Tuesday Microsoft will be releasing two bulletins. The bulletins address eight vulnerabilities in both Windows and Office. Bulletin 1 will be fixing problems with Microsoft Windows while Bulletin 2 will address issues with Microsoft Office.
These downloads will be rated “important” as opposed to “optional”. Important means that a vulnerability or vulnerabilities are present that could “compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of users data, or of the integrity or availability of processing resources”.
Bulletin 1 will address issues in Windows XP, Vista, and 7. The downloads will apply to both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of all three of these operating systems.
Bulletin 2 will deal with a variety of issues in various Microsoft Office versions. Most of the patches will be for Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007. Mac versions of Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 will also need patching along with Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.
Other Bulletin 2 patches will be for Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. Both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be updated as well.
More details about the eight vulnerabilities and the updates to correct them will be discussed in a webcast on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The webcast will be an after the fact information session.
January saw an update for Outlook on the eighth, security updates for the different operating systems on the eleventh and Internet Explorer updates on the twentieth. February saw updates to various versions of Office on February 4th, and a lot of updates for all versions of Windows and Windows Server were released on February 8th. The final few updates were released on February 10th and only affected Word 2010 beta and an Extended Security Update Tool.
We all need to realize that rather than purchasing finished products from Microsoft, we seen to have purchased works in progress. Microsoft isn’t the only operating system that has updates for security purposes and tweaks of various products but it does seem to be the company with the most.
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