Microsoft intends to release ten updates as part of its patch cycle, one of the biggest Patch Tuesdays in months. Six critical updates are planned, two for Windows and one each for IE, Word, Excel and Office. The list will include the first patch for IE 8, too, reports Computerworld.
Missing from the list will be a Mac version of the out-of-band patch for PowerPoint that Microsoft released last month.
Meanwhile, Microsoft said it fixed a “bug” with Bing that forced Internet Explorer 6 users to use Bing even if they had set other search engines as the default. The “hijacking” of IE6 users to Bing stems from the search function embedded in IE’s URL bar. Unknown URLs will automatically prompt a search.
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