Microsoft is set to release six security bulletin patches this coming Tuesday. Three of the six have been labeled as Critical, Microsoft's highest security rating, and three more patches labeled as Important, the second highest security rating. The patches are due to release on November 10 and will focus on patching Remote Code Executions and DoS (Denial of Service) flaws in the Windows operating system. Four of the patches will be released for Windows, while two will patch Remote Code Executions in Microsoft Office.
The patches will fix security holes in:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 & 3 *
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 & 2 *
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 *
- Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 *
- Microsoft Office XP
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Microsoft Office 2004 (Mac)
- Microsoft Office 2008 (Mac)
* Both 32bit and 64bit architecture
No updates for Windows 7 will be released. Currently, Windows 7 only has one officially released security patch, released on October 8, 2009.
Some of the updates may require a restart.
I mean I restart daily anyway but when I wake up and turn it on and it decides to update, and keeps poking me to restart... argh! And there wasn't any updates showing when I shut down.
Or is microsoft not releasing them?
Or is microsoft not releasing them?
Obviously because it doesn't affect Windows 7. If it did, they would push the update for that OS.
You never thought of disabling the auto updates?
Set it to download updates but prompt you to install them. Then install them on your own time. Just don't wait to long.
So turn off automatic updates.
Stop being so bitchy. This shouldn't occur on a default setting. That's what need's fixed. Plus why do we still restart? You don't have to shove the argument back down our throat because you don't care.
Why? What's it preventing you from doing (while you're asleep)?
Interrupting a long download or upload that you left on overnight.
Supposedly the Restart Manager can save documents for some applications and reopen them after a restart, but that's useless for restarting a file transfer within a browser.
I'm confused. What shouldn't occur on a default setting? Automatic updates installing automatically?
Does no one realize that there is a GP setting that allows you to change the behavior of automatic updates/restarts?
This happens as the default because otherwise too many morons would just keep postponing the updates. Updates are done for a reason.
Supposedly the Restart Manager can save documents for some applications and reopen them after a restart, but that's useless for restarting a file transfer within a browser.
More like *cough*μTorrent*cough*.
Also, on Neowin lots of people go like "0 mi gawd, he must be downloading pirated movies". While we all know, most of us has downloaded still with torrent.
And to anyone, I use torrent to download whatever I want, what can/will you do? I guess nothing besides crying on a forum.
Have a mostly nice day.
They did this with the video driver, so now you can update without needing to reboot like before. More hot-patching would be nice, but I don't see that being a priority for them at this point. Besides, if you're like me, you only restart/reboot at the most once a month when these do come out.
It closes my unsaved documents without saving! Not while I'm asleep, but when I went to bathroom for 10 minutes.
It also closes IE so hard that it forgets the entire history for the week. Excellent!
This is not the default setting!
When you install Windows, you are forced to choose the update policy. You cannot install Windows without making a choice. There simply is no default setting.
Do you realize how much testing has to to go into an update? Personally I'm surprised Microsoft can release updates as fast as they do. Do you know what would happen if Microsoft released a bad update that bricked millions of computers on patch Tuesday?
Last thing I want to see if Microsoft rushing updates out the door without being properly tested. You are also the same kind person that would bitch if Microsoft rushed an update out the door that caused your computer not to boot after installing it.
Last thing I want to see if Microsoft rushing updates out the door without being properly tested. You are also the same kind person that would bitch if Microsoft rushed an update out the door that caused your computer not to boot after installing it.
+1
Last thing I want to see if Microsoft rushing updates out the door without being properly tested. You are also the same kind person that would bitch if Microsoft rushed an update out the door that caused your computer not to boot after installing it.
If Microsoft released a perfect operating system without a single error - zackiv31 would whine about the default background; there is no pleasing some people.
No doubt!!
Was just wondering, does anyone on here, with more than 10 posts, really leave auto updates turned on?
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