A Surprise-Microsoft to release six patches
Six new security patches will be released by Microsoft, which will include four "critical" updates affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail for Vista.
The company said that four out of the six bulletins that are scheduled for June 12, 2007, will be ranked “critical”, while one each will be labeled “important” and “moderate”.
Also, according to Microsoft, half of the batch of security updates affects Windows Vista, or one of its components, such as Internet Explorer 7 or the Windows Mail email client. Out of the three Vista patches, two have been termed as “critical”.
Windows will have three updates, Internet Explorer just one, Outlook Express and Windows Mail will also have one each and Visio 2002 and Visio 2003 will also have one patch.
Tuesday's updates will be available for manual download from the Microsoft Web site about 1 p.m. PDT. ( …… How come Micro$oft became so active in releasing patches…)