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What’s Wrong With This Picture?

September 18, 2008

These are the patches I got after I followed Microsoft’s own instructions on How to obtain the latest Microsoft Word Viewer and installed two files – the Word 2003 viewer and the Office 2007 compatibility pack. On the plus side, it’s only 5 months worth of updates.

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Microsoft Marketing Powerhouse to Marketing Has-Been

September 17, 2008

Microsoft announced that they’re cutting Seinfeld out of their ads. Planned it all along. I didn’t say anything about the ads at the time but I thought they were unfairly disparaged at first. I kind of liked them, I chuckled a bit, and figured they were recreating Seinfeld’s sitcom about nothing in an attempt to [...]

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Microsoft Security Updates for July 2008

July 8, 2008

Microsoft has released four security bulletins for July 2008, two of which are for desktops.
MS08-038 addresses a vulnerability in Windows Explorer and is for Windows Vista and carries an “important” rating. The update includes the original Vista, Vista SP1 and Vista x64.
MS08-037 addresses a vulnerability in DNS and is for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins for April 2008

April 11, 2008

Another "Super Tuesday" patched this week but I just got around to firing up my Windows VM’s today (actually it’s been about 12 days since I’ve been in Windows). There were ten updates waiting for me on Windows Vista and eight on Windows XP Home, although not all were security related.
This month’s updates included:
KB945553 [...]

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Microsoft Live Search Not So Good When Looking for Microsoft Content

March 27, 2008

All the talk may be that Microsoft needs to buy Yahoo in order to bulk up enough compete with Google. Let’s hope they also work on basic search. When I updated my Windows Home Server I wanted to find the bulletin so I’d know what it did. I had the bulletin number from the log [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins for March 2008

March 11, 2008

Microsoft has released 4 security bulletins for March. All are for Office products and all are rated critical for one or more of the affected products. There weren’t any OS or IE updates this month. Since I don’t run any Office products I didn’t install any Microsoft updates this month, but these were the [...]

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The OS Quest trail Log #26: Microsoft Edition

March 2, 2008

There wasn’t much forward movement on the Quest this week as my day job tended to take up all my time. I did add some disk to my Windows Home Server and began ripping some DVDs and moving other files to it. The only software update was a very minor update to iPhoto.
On the [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins for February 2008

February 13, 2008

Microsoft released 11 security bulletins for February 2008, six are rated critical and five are important.  My Windows XP Pro SP2 installation received the following updates through Windows Update:
MS08-010 – Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (critical)
MS08-007 – Vulnerability in WebDAV Mini-Redirector Could Allow Remote Code Execution (critical)
MS08-008 -  Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow [...]

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Security Quest #17: Microsoft Edition

January 9, 2008

Another second Tuesday of the month and another set of Microsoft patches. I realize it’s important to patch vulnerabilities as soon as possible and this monthly release schedule tends to go against that, but I like the consistency and ability to plan.
Anyway, this week brought two patches. The first is MS08-001 titled “Vulnerabilities [...]

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Security Quest #10: Microsoft Patch Tuesday

November 13, 2007

Another second Tuesday of the month and another bundle of patches from Microsoft was expected. This time around there’s only one update for Microsoft desktops. Windows Vista goes patch-less this month.
MS07-061 is a critical update for Windows XP on the desktop. It’s for both the regular and 64-bit editions. It supersedes MS06-045 and patches a [...]

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Why People Don’t Trust Microsoft

November 2, 2007

This is an example of why people don’t trust Microsoft, or at least why I don’t.
When I ran windows update it told me I needed to update some components of it and this is the benefits I’d receive:

That sounded remarkably like the Windows Update I already had so I clicked for the details:

The only thing [...]

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