Posted on 07/13/2010 1:40:44 PM PDT by JoeProBono
As expected, today's patch slate was short: Just four security updates that included fixes for five separate flaws. Of the four updates, three were rated "critical," the highest threat ranking in Microsoft's four-step scoring system.
All five of the specific vulnerabilities patched today were also rated critical. Two of the bulletins affected Windows, while the remaining pair impacted Office. Four of the five vulnerabilities in the bulletin quartet were pegged by Microsoft with an exploitability index score of "1," meaning that the company expects attacks to materialize in the next 30 days....
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I am a poor, unfrozen caveman. Your world frightens and disorients me.
Where do I go to make sure my humble desktop is up-to-date on all these patches?
Open your browser and click on safaty, then windows update.
I'm using Firefox, not SAFARI.
ping
Then just type in [Windows Update] in the run box, from your start button, then click [windows update].
Then just type in [Windows Update] in the run box, from your start button, then click [windows update].
Do it twice?
Do it twice?
LOL...nice.
Phil Hartman’s “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” routine from SNL.
Ha! Funny!
Ha! Funny!
Yea, then have a smoke and a snack/
C'mon. You walked into that one.
True, he did.
However, I'd like to see this Windows thread remain free of all anti-Windows sarcasm and snide remarks from here on down. This is a polite request -- I'm not a Mod, just a non-partisan tech fellow who would like to have one tech thread unsullied by partisan fighting. (Your post is clearly humorous, so I'll give it a pass, and besides you run the Industrial Strength Humor Ping List so everybody knows you COULD have done much more...)
Microsoft does a very good job in general with their updates and patches, and rarely screws up. They're also a lot more open about what's in the updates, compared to Apple, though nowhere near as open as Linux/Unix, which being open source pretty much has their drawers around their ankles 24/7 anyway.
and I’m naming you room monitor on the Apple Threads...
Heh, I've actually tried numerous times to calm down the hyperbole and hateful crap on the Apple threads; it's truly quite upsetting to me. Swordmaker does everything he can to withstand the barrage from the trolls. I hold out hope that someday those threads will recover their good behavior.
Meanwhile, this being a Windows thread, I'll mention that today I downloaded "XP-Mode" (the virtual XP machine) for my Win7-64bit system at work, and am looking forward to seeing if it addresses a problem we're having with MS-Dynamics/GP, namely that the older version clients won't run properly on Win7.
Oops. It's there. Just a minute while I upda
I hope my self-deprecating Linux humor meets your request. (But in fact, the system is actually updating and beyond that... a comment I might have made I won't. In deference to all the Microsofties here in Redmond, a few of whom are fellow parishioners.)
Oh, well, I suppose... :) We geezers gotta stick together.
> (But in fact, the system is actually updating and beyond that... a comment I might have made I won't. In deference to all the Microsofties here in Redmond, a few of whom are fellow parishioners.)
There ya go. And it wasn't even too painful.
Thanks much, my FRiend.
So how do you find Win7? I dodged a bullet by the timing of my corporate laptop upgrade; we hadn’t started deployed Win7 at the time.
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How do I find Win7? Why, I just boot my computer, and... there it is, hardly had to search for it at all!
I like Win7 a lot; a good bit more than XP, which I'd gotten quite used to over 8+ years and had started to consider "the devil I know"... so I ignored Vista and put off Win7 until it proved itself worthy.
And worthy it is. It's fast and stable and (when suitably shorn of the slick GUI crap) quite usable.
I don't use Aero or the other goofy stuff that Microsoft layered on top of the OS so that it would look like OS-X. In fact, the first thing I do with a new Win7 installation is what I would do with a new XP installation -- bomb it back to the Stone Age and make it look like the Classic Win2000 theme. Why Microsoft puts on all that XP Fisher-Price garbage, and the Vista/Win7 wussy transparent garbage, is beyond me. I guess their juvenile focus groups love it.
So, ranting aside, Win7 is solid and I love it. It does everything I want a Windows operating system to do, and it does it very well. I recommend it highly.
By the way, it runs great on Apple (Intel) hardware as well as the traditional "PC" hardware. My Win7-32 desktop at home is a MacMini with a ~2GHz Core2 Duo and 2GB RAM. My Win7-64 desktop at work is an HP with a ~3GHz Core2 Duo and 4GB RAM, because there I run multiple VMs (NetBSD, Linux, XP) and need more memory to do that. Best Windows box I've ever put together.
My buddy who is a serious gamer says that Win7-64 with a lot of RAM and video is the best system he's ever played on. After being on Win7 for a few months, switching back to an XP system feels like a time warp.
BTW, in case you haven't seen it, my profile page will assure you that after 35+ years in this industry, I'm not anybody's fanboy. My glowing comments above indicate that I really like Win7; they should not be taken as a negative towards any other OSes; I also like Macs a lot (typing on one right now), have been a Linux user for a decade, and mostly I'm a Unix-head. :)
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