Microsoft plans 15 patches for Windows, Office next week
Microsoft today said it will dispense five security updates next week to patch 15 vulnerabilities in Windows, Excel, SharePoint Server and Groove.
All five updates will be rated "important," the second-highest threat ranking in Microsoft's four-step system.
Microsoft usually ships a smaller number of updates in odd-number months, and kept to that plan today: September's volume is down from August's, when the company patched 22 vulnerabilities with 13 "bulletins," the word it uses to describe individual security updates. "Not a lot there, but then we didn't expect much," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security. "It is the light month, the down month."
