Ramblings of an old Doc

 

This video (http://youtu.be/jz55QSOaFbI) from MS should explain the updates. There are “Critical” updates.

Executive Summary

  • Four bulletins are released by Microsoft this month that address 11 vulnerabilities across all products.
  • The products affected by these vulnerabilities are Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.
  • Two bulletins are rated critical, the other two important.
  • Top deployment priority are the two critical bulletins MS14-017 and MS14-018.

OS distribution:

  • Windows XP:  1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows Vista: 1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows 7:   1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows 8:  1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows 8.1: 1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows RT: 1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows RT 8.1:  1 critical, 1 important
  • Windows Server 2003: 1 important, 1 moderate
  • Windows Server 2008: 1 important, 1 moderate
  • Windows Server 2008 R2: 1 important, 1 moderate
  • Windows Server 2012: 1 important, 1 moderate
  • Windows Server 2012 R2: 1 important, 1 moderate

Product distribution:

  • Microsoft Office 2003: 1 critical, 1 important
  • Microsoft Office 2007: 1 critical, 1 important
  • Microsoft Office 2010: 1 critical
  • Microsoft Office 2013: 1 critical
  • Microsoft Office for Mac: 1 critical
  • Other Office software: 1 critical
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: 1 critical
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013: 1 critical
  • Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010: 1 critical
  • Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013: 1 critical

You don’t have to wait for the automatic Windows Update to pop up in your systray. You can go to the start menu, and type in Windows Update and the utility will appear and just click on it.

Happy Patch Tuesday.


Comments
on Apr 09, 2014

Are you talking about yesterday or next week Doc?

on Apr 09, 2014

Patch Tuesday is the first Tuesday of the month kona, yesterday.

on Apr 09, 2014

How long will this patch for XP be available?

on Apr 09, 2014

I have a question concerning XP.  I read someplace, but I forgot where, that uninstalling " Internet Explorer"  is also a good idea, if you are keeping Windows XP.   When I went to uninstall it, a popup said, all the programs installed after having Internet Explorer may not work. Well that is all the programs on the pc.  It seems odd, because it is only the browser Internet Explorer which would be uninstalled. 

Not trying to highjack your thread. 


on Apr 09, 2014

Patch Tuesday is the first Tuesday of the month kona, yesterday.

I know. Curious why it was posted a day late is all.

on Apr 09, 2014

Updates came late as well. I just got them.

on Apr 09, 2014

on Apr 09, 2014

Odd, I ended up with 11 updates for Windows 7 x64 with MS Office 2010 installed. When I checked last night there were none. Oh well, all done at least!

on Apr 09, 2014

I only got 6

on Apr 09, 2014

Once again I find that I must repeat myself......

on Apr 09, 2014


Updates came late as well. I just got them.

I got them yesterday, Ross.

on Apr 09, 2014

teddybearcholla

I have a question concerning XP.  I read someplace, but I forgot where, that uninstalling " Internet Explorer"  is also a good idea, if you are keeping Windows XP.   When I went to uninstall it, a popup said, all the programs installed after having Internet Explorer may not work. Well that is all the programs on the pc.  It seems odd, because it is only the browser Internet Explorer which would be uninstalled. 

Not trying to highjack your thread. 

Read about the topic here:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/browsers/f/removeiexp.htm

Basically, explorer is hardwired into Windows and provides other services also, so it is not easily removable. I distinctly remember that MS did it on purpose to circumvent anti-monopoly court ruling that ordered them to provide Windows without Explorer as an unfair advantage. It was not technically possible, so they offered two versions - one with Explorer that worked, and other without Explorer that did not work. 


However, there is a solution to your Explorer woes - migrate to Lubuntu. It's very lightweight, you will be able to run it on old hardware, and lastly - no Explorer, not a trace

on Apr 09, 2014

Not my fault they came today. I checked this morning and there were none.

on Apr 09, 2014

Kamamura_CZ
Read about the topic here:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/browsers/f/removeiexp.htm

Basically, explorer is hardwired into Windows and provides other services also, so it is not easily removable. I distinctly remember that MS did it on purpose to circumvent anti-monopoly court ruling that ordered them to provide Windows without Explorer as an unfair advantage. It was not technically possible, so they offered two versions - one with Explorer that worked, and other without Explorer that did not work. 


However, there is a solution to your Explorer woes - migrate to Lubuntu. It's very lightweight, you will be able to run it on old hardware, and lastly - no Explorer, not a trace
   

 

Thank you very much Kamamura!!! That certainly does answer my question! 

on Apr 09, 2014

Philly0381

Once again I find that I must repeat myself......

Hmmm, me thinks you talk too much.