Microsoft to Patch Windows, Office Flaws

[HardOCP News]

As part of the company’s monthly patch cycle, Microsoft says it will issue four security bulletins closing five critical holes in Office and Windows.

The four bulletins cover a total of five vulnerabilities. Of the two Windows-related bulletins, one is rated critical for Windows XP and low for Windows Server 2003, while the other affects only the 64-bit version of Windows 7. On the Office front, one bulletin is related to the Access database and is rated critical for the 2003 and 2007 versions of the product. The other is related to Outlook and is rated as important for Outlook 2002, 2003, and 2007.

 

[srangara]

Patches? We don' need no stinkin' patches!

Oh, wait. We do. NVM.

 

[Azhar]

Oh great, another Microsoft bashing thread.



I'm kidding, don't hurt me!

 

[pc1x1]

Windows 7 and Office 2010, have been great, imo. As long as they cover the security holes, I been very satisfied personally.

 

[Hornet]

Hmm Win7 64bit, thats me. Thanks for the heads up.

I run my patch manually

 

[velocitytrap]

So how long does windows have to support XP with patches? Is it like car manufacturers where they have to make parts for 10 years after the car is made? I would think that they would want to stop patching XP to force everyone to move to win7. On the other hand with so many XP users still out there not supporting the OS would look bad and create a lot of headaches if every XP machine was compromised.

 

[srangara]

So how long does windows have to support XP with patches? Is it like car manufacturers where they have to make parts for 10 years after the car is made? I would think that they would want to stop patching XP to force everyone to move to win7. On the other hand with so many XP users still out there not supporting the OS would look bad and create a lot of headaches if every XP machine was compromised.

According to this...
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173

... we can expect extended support for XP until April 2014.