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• Microsoft issues five critical patches

  Microsoft on Tuesday issued five "critical" security patches designed to address vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer.

• Windows zero-day flaw gets a fix

  Microsoft on Tuesday in the US issued five security bulletins with fixes for eight flaws, including a "critical" zero-day vulnerability in Windows that also affects Vista.

• Microsoft struggles with patch

  Microsoft on Tuesday in the US released 10 patches for its software, but it failed to issue a planned critical Windows patch because of quality problems.

• Third time a charm for IE patch?

  Microsoft has issued a third version of a troubled Internet Explorer patch, aiming to fix a bug in an earlier update that could be exploited to hijack Windows PCs.

• Hire company charges ahead with Linux

  Kennards Hire is ready to replace Windows server with Linux at 90 branches, to accompany 400 desktops already running the open source operating system.

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• Get up to speed on Microsoft's August security bulletins

  In August, Microsoft released a dozen security bulletins, rating nine as critical threats. (The remaining three are important threats.) With that many updates in a single month, how do you know which ones to concentrate on first?

• Microsoft's patch and pray model

  Microsoft's quick-fix Windows security patches seem to be creating problems of their own, so is it wrong for them to be released in the first place?

• Microsoft preps 'critical' Windows patch

  Next week's security bulletin will deliver 10 fixes, at least one high-priority patch for Microsoft's OS among them.

• Are vulnerable times responsible times?

  Security professionals say they're making computing safer, but are they doing more harm than good? We find out what industry experts have to say.

• Is another MSBlast attack on its way?

  The Eschelbeck Theory states that only half of the vulnerable systems in the world are patched within the first 30 days of a patch's existence, and that within that same 30-day period, someone invariably releases a virus or a worm to take advantage of the still-vulnerable systems.

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• A lesson in logic

  Fundamentalists are people who can't tolerate the idea that there are legitimate points of view other than their own. Publish something negative about Linux, and you'll soon find out what I mean.

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