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Software giant Microsoft will be dishing out a critical security update for its Windows 7 platform in the upcoming Patch Tuesday release.The Patch Tuesday release, which will come with merely 4 security bulletins, features only...

Both Lenovo and HP have announced plans to ship Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with their computers at the beginning of next months, a few weeks after Microsoft officially made the upgrade available to end users and partners. HP...

Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday update has delivered fixes for three security vulnerabilities in Windows, including one labelled as "critical". The company released two security bulletins, MS11-002 and MS11-001, and has...

Microsoft is planning to release a massive patch Tuesday update. The update will come with 49 security bulletins spread across 16 software updates, plugging holes in Windows, IE, Office, and .NET. According to a security...

Microsoft has released a patch for a critical shortcut flaw in its Windows operating system, the Telegraph reported on Monday.The software update will be able to fix the vulnerability that enables hackers to remotely control...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will release an emergency patch to fix a short cut vulnerability in its Windows operating system.The Telegraph reports that the vulnerability allows hackers to gain remote access to PCs via a...

Microsoft will release a security bulletin next Tuesday to address two vulnerabilities. The bulletin, to be released on 11 May, will address two important flaws in the software giant's Windows operating system and Office suite...

Software giant Microsoft has revealed that the company is currently investigating a critical security issue in the Windows XP Service Pack 3 that comes from the Windows Visual Basic language and Windows Help for its Internet...

Google's stab at Chrome operating system has had many a pundit thinking more and more about the direction of the OS market. Microsoft's Windows has been suffering heavily since Windows XP's inception. It's widely reported that it...

The overwhelming majority of today's software installation routines is done without ever touching a physical media like a DVD or a CDROM, so much so that the number of devices actually shipped without an optical drive appears to...

One of the problems that you encounter when you control more than 90 percent of the computer market is that whatever move you make will leave a significant number of your customers deeply frustrated; Microsoft hit this snag with...

While Microsoft's focus is on Windows Vista, it is easy to forget that the majority of Windows-based computers are running on Windows XP; the final version of its third service pack, also known as SP3 is expected to be released...

Microsoft reported that Vista has had much less vulnerabilities than Windows XP and Open Source competitors like Linux.The author of the report though was quick to admit that the figures do not indicate that Windows Vista was...

Homeland Security: Fix Your WindowsIn a rare alert, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system. The agency, which also runs the United States...

A new feature of this blog will be weekly IT security news. Targeted at system administrators, it’s a recap of events as well various tools. From our weekly newsletter, WServerNews. Redmond's One Big Vista MistakeWell, if you...