Microsoft issued security bulletins and patched for four vulnerabilities today. Three of the flaws, in Microsoft Word, Publisher and the Jet database engine, are critical in at least some configurations. A fourth vulnerability, in Microsoft’s malware detection engine, maxes out at moderate.
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PC World says” It looks like Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is (almost) ready for prime time. SP1 contains a whopping 573 bug fixes and patches that have accumulated since Vista first shipped in early 2007, plus some performance improvements. I advise you to get it–but only after the wrinkles are ironed out.”
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The Windows Home Server team has been heads down working on the data corruption issue since we first posted the Knowledge Base (KB) article in late December 2007. An update to the KB article was posted today that provides more information regarding symptoms, cause, status and guidance. You can read the KB […]
On Thursday, Microsoft had accidentally released the first service pack (SP1) for Windows Vista to a group of users who were not supposed to receive the update until mid-March.
“Yesterday, a build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group,” Microsoft said in a statement.
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Updates that Microsoft Corp. began feeding Windows Vista users last week to prep PCs for next month’s release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) have crippled some machines, according to messages posted to the company’s support site.
Microsoft said it is investigating the reports.
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Microsoft has just released 11 security updates that fix critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual FoxPro database. In total, 17 individual software flaws were patched in the updates. Microsoft rates six updates as critical, meaning users should install them as soon as possible, while […]
Microsoft is planning a launch event Feb. 27 in Los Angeles and will likely to release both Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 close to that date. The company has said it plans to release the server and client software around the same time. Vista SP1 typically is a milestone that many corporate users wait […]
Microsoft has changed it’s mind and opened public access to the latest beta build of Vista Service Pack 1. Users can now download Vista SP1 RC Refresh from Microsoft’s Web site. Users can get the beta via Windows Update, but Microsoft is providing a list of procedures users should follow to avoid problems.
Microsoft had originally […]
Microsoft has offered a technical work-around for Internet Explorer users who have found their browsers crashing after installing a recent set of security patches.
Last Tuesday, Microsoft issued a critical security update for its browser software, fixing bugs in the browser. But soon after, users began reporting that IE would crash while visiting certain Web sites. […]
Microsoft plans to release the first beta of the next version of Internet Explorer in the first half of 2008, and said that IE 8 has passed a key Web standards test that ensures the browser won’t “break” the Web.
IE8 has passed the “Acid2 Browser Test” from the Web Standards Project, which shows whether a […]
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