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Over 89% Of Windows 7 Users Allow Automatic Update Installation

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In a post from the Building Windows 8 Team Blog earlier today that addresses minimizing restarts after automatic updates from Windows Update I saw a small stat that I find absolutely encouraging.

Look at this:

Nearly 90% of Windows 7 users allow automatic updates delivered thru Windows Update to be . . .

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Microsoft’s June 2011 Patch Tuesday Advance Notice Released

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The Microsoft security folks have published the advance notice for next week’s security related Patch Tuesday and it looks like it addresses 16 bulletins and impacts 5 different categories of Microsoft software.

Of the 16 bulletins 9 are critical and the remaining 7 are labeled important. The affected software includes:

Windows Operating . . .

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May 2011 Patch Tuesday Summary

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As we mentioned last Friday today is the first Tuesday of the month and that makes it Patch Tuesday for Windows based systems.

This update was small and only affected two programs from Microsoft.  All versions of Microsoft Office prior to the 2010 release and the Windows Server series of OS’s.

According . . .

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Short and Sweet May 2011 Patch Tuesday Coming Up

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Microsoft has posted the advance notice concerning next weeks Patch Tuesday security related updates that will be made available.

There are two bulletins that are being addressed.  One is rated Critical and the other is Important.  The software that is being updated with these patches are:

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 . . .

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Microsoft Provides Advance Notice of Hefty Patch Tuesday

The Microsoft Security Response Center has issued the expected advance notification on next week’s Patch Tuesday for security updates and it is a big one this time.

The April 2011 Patch Tuesday is made up of 17 bulletins of which 9 are Critical updates with the remaining 8 being Important ones.  All . . .

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March 2011 Patch Tuesday Advance Notification Released

The folks at the Microsoft Security Center have released the March 2011 Advance Security Bulletin for this month’s set of security patches that will be made available next Tuesday to users.

What can you expect in the updates? Well as usual they are not providing heavy details until after the patches are . . .

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