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Story: Microsoft readies 10 security updates
Patching Insight
This month will be especially disruptive for desktop/laptop management teams because of an Internet Explorer patch that requires a restart for anyone using Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 or 8 running on XP and Vista. This means that almost every desktop/laptop in every organisation will need the patch and will then require a restart. To help protect organisational productivity, patching teams should take this possibility for wide-scale disruption into account as they make their patch deployment plans.
This month will also be disruptive for organisations that have resisted adoption of more recent technologies from Microsoft. Several of the critical patches including Windows 1 and 2, and Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities associated with bulletins Windows 1 and Windows 2 are critical for Windows 2000 and will impact companies that continue to use legacy Windows servers in financial services and manufacturing processes (although impacted, the same vulnerabilities on Windows 2003 and 2008 are not rated as critical.) The critical patches for Microsoft Word, Excel and Office will affect users of the legacy Office 2000 suite.
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