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Patch Tuesday fixes 8 holes, includes 2 warnings

As part of Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday schedule, the company released two patches that fix eight holes in Windows and Microsoft Office. Both patches have an overall rating of "important" but using another metric, Microsoft's Exploitability Index, they have earned the highest rating of "1." This means that Microsoft Security believes that exploit code is not only likely, but that it can be created in such a way as to be consistently successful. Equally important was the stuff Microsoft did not choose to patch, but is investigating.

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  • Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will launch May 12 Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 03/08/2010

    Microsoft announced today the official release date of its next versions of Office and SharePoint: May 12. Office 2010 will be available to businesses on that day, but consumers will have to wait until an unspecified date in June before they can purchase their versions.

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  • Microsoft: Get your cloud here Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 03/05/2010

    Microsoft is making it quite clear that it wants in on the cloud, and the future the software giant envisions for cloud computing has everyone from developer to executive to consumer tapping into the cloud for services or even hosting their own.

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  • Microsoft gets I-O Data to sign Linux patent-protection license Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 03/04/2010

    Microsoft is on a roll with its Linux patent-protection scheme. On Thursday it announced that it has struck an agreement with Japanese company I-O Data in which I-O Data will pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum "that will provide I-O Data's customers with patent coverage for their use of I-O Data's products running Linux and other related open source software."

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Microsoft patches Excel, XP, Vista, W7, Virtual PC; leaves others holes alone As part of Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday schedule, the company released two patches that fix eight holes in Windows and Microsoft Office. Both patches have an overall rating of "important" but using another metric, Microsoft's Exploitability Index, they have earned the highest rating of "1." This means that Microsoft Security believes that exploit code is not only likely, but that it can be...

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