14 DAY TRIAL // It’s going to be a very light month for Microsoft as far as patch releases go. The Redmond company revealed that it plans to release just two security updates next week. The two security bulletins will be provided on May 10, 2011, per the software giant’s normal Patch Tuesday schedule of update releases.
All the latest iterations of major Microsoft products will not be impacted by this month’s patches, according to the information in the Advanced Notification that the company supplied to users.
One of the security bulletins, rated Critical, will indeed impact Windows, but just the server releases of the platform.
Users of Windows 7 and Windows 7 SP1, as well as all of the other supported releases of the Windows client will not need to deploy patches this month, the company revealed.
Not the same can be said about customers running Windows Server, including Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. They will have to deploy a Critical patch next week, according to Microsoft, patching a single vulnerability.
The remainder security bulletin is designed to resolve security vulnerabilities in a few versions of the Office suite.
However, just as it is the case for Windows 7 SP1, customers running Office 2010 will not get to install any patches this month, to close two security holes in Office 2007 and earlier.
The latest iteration of Internet Explorer, namely IE9 will also not be receiving patches from the software giant this month.
All in all, as I’ve said at the start of this article, it’s going to be a light month for Microsoft customers patching-wise, but they certainly deserve it, especially after the April 2011 patch release.
Last month, the company offered no less than 17 security bulletins designed to resolve a massive 64 vulnerabilities across a range of products.