Excel bulletin stars in Microsoft patch batch

Microsoft released eight patches, five critical, on Tuesday as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. The bulletins collectively cover 23 separate vulnerabilities, six of which have been targeted by exploit code. The updates cover a fix (MS09-009) for a flaw in Excel that's become the target of attacks of recent weeks …

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Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 10:33 GMT

Anonymous Coward

In 3....2....1..... #

Linux waffle waffle mates brothers sister-in-laws uncle says...drone drone....

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 11:35 GMT

Anonymous Coward

In 3...2...1 #

Microsoft shills defending their crappy employer's products.

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 12:31 GMT

T.F. The Magnificent, Flying Trapeze Gumby Brothers and Furniture Removals.

In 3....2....1..... #

Steve Jobs drone clones will advertise their expensive/exclusive wares...

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 13:57 GMT

Rocco

How much can you... #

...patch fecal matter with fecal matter? You only get bigger heaps of fecal matter!

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 22:33 GMT

Ian Bonham

AmigaOS #

Well I'm still on AmigaDOS & Workbench, not had a problem. Fast, Stable, Small, and not needed an update in bloody ages!

Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 13:12 GMT

Anonymous Coward

RE: AmigaOS #

Workbench was fantastic (when it first came out). It's still pretty good in a lot of regards. It had pre-emptive multitasking from the outset. Despite MSs best efforts, that's probably still not present in Vista. I haven't checked. It's certainly not part of Win2k (and probably not XP either).

An easy test is this: Open a shell and try to format a disk. Click somewhere outside of the shell window. Boom. Formatting is halted until you click back inside.

The TCP/IP stack is a pain and integrated into the OS. There's not a lot of hardware available for it anymore (no drivers). I've never seen a virus/trojan or anything else since the early 90s, so in that respect it's pretty safe to browse the net with.

You can get some MS software for the Amiga and surprise surprise, it's all shit.

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