Microsoft to Release 7 Patches Next Week

craters writes "Microsoft plans to release 7 patches next week for Windows and Office. From the article: 'In the monthly pre-patch notification it sends out five days prior to unveiling fixes, Microsoft said that at least two of the seven will be rated Critical, which by the company's definition means that the vulnerability can be remotely exploited.'"

Re:Windows 2000?

[MadTinfoilHatter]

Anyone know when the date is when MS will stop making security patches for Windows 2000?

Windows 2000 will be supported for 5 + 5 years since it's an enterprise product. Home level products are supported for 5 + 0 years (except XP Home which got two years more to live.) See http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy [microsoft.com] for details.

Re:Windows 2000?

[jproudfo]

Security updates will be available until Windows 2000 leaves the Extended Support phase of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle. According to http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sor t=PN&alpha=windows+2000 [microsoft.com], that's in 2010.

Re:I hope it's not business as usual...

[MSFanBoi2]

I just checked, you are not correct.

There have been 27 critical and high level patches released for Windows 2000, since SP4 was released. Which are a total of just over 31 MB in size.

SP4 itself is 132 MB.

The Windows 2000 Server base install is just over 1.3 GB with most of the standard features.

132+31=163, which is far FAR short of 1.3 GB.

FUD possibly?

Re:I hope it's not business as usual...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi all,

I just re-installed Win2K SP4 + security rollup1 in mid-January with no applications. I happen to have saved a list of the 29 patches that Windows update then wanted me to install:

MS03-008
MS03-011
MS04-028
MS05-025
MS05-026
MS05-027
MS05-030
MS05-032
MS05-036
MS05-037
MS05-038
MS05-039
MS05-040
MS05-042
MS05-043
MS05-044
MS05-045
MS05-046
MS05-047
MS05-048
MS05-049
MS05-050
MS05-051
MS05-052
MS05-053
MS05-054
MS05-055
MS06-001
MS06-002

You're probably wondering about MS03-008 and MS03-011. Service Pack 4 didn't include updates for Microsoft's java runtime or ...hmmm... I think it was the WSH? Something like that...

Well, anyway 29 patches of about 90 MB including rollup1. I saved them all to a CD for the next reload. Since this is the last OS from Microsoft that doesn't require registration with them, you might want to do the same from time to time.

Re:Released Early

[drinkypoo]

Hey dumb ass, before you were even born NextStep (MacOS X) had it's own directory authorization system that kicks ass over AD

Hey dumb ass, before you were even born English (American) used the words "its" for posession and "it's" as a contraction of it is.

NeXTStep is sexy but you if you buy them in any kind of quantity you can get PCs for half what you pay for macs. At least, ones useful for business. The imac is a bitch to even get into (the new one especially) and that's just not supportable if you have more than a handful of machines.

Windows sucks, sure, but I'm not sure OSX on Macintosh is the answer. In fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't.

Do i have to switch channels?

[threedognit3]

CooL...I have automatic updates. Nothing here to see.