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Microsoft Details October 'Patch Tuesday'

lardiop   on 07 October 2005 - 20:00 · 24 comments & 8225 views

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It seems as though is planning a fairly large "Patch Tuesday" next week. In a bulletin posted to TechNet earlier today, the software giant is expecting to release upwards of 9 patches for Windows including:

"8 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. Some of these updates will require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and the Enterprise Scanning Tool (EST)."

Microsoft is also planning to release a single patch for Exchange with a severity rating of "Important". In related Microsoft news, a new service article was issued today dealing with performance issues in Windows when running a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 CPU. The hotfix makes "changes to the kernel power manager... helping to calculate an increased target performance state." The patch is slated to be included in the next service pack for XP and as of today, can only be obtained by contacting Microsoft directly.

View: TechNet 'Patch Tuesday' Update
View: AMD Dual-Core CPU KB Article | More Information
View: Microsoft Home | Microsoft Update

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(2 replies) #1 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00
#1.1 vetlardiop on 07 Oct 2005 - 22:05
Several sites, including the one we linked on the front page explain that in detail. It has to do with AMD's Cool n'Quiet technology.
#1.2 vetlardiop on 07 Oct 2005 - 22:09
AMD's CPU's are the only dual-core chips with the kind of advanced throttle stepping and thermal management that the article was discussing. They dont have to name AMD to mean their products.
(1 reply) #2 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00
#2.1 vetlardiop on 08 Oct 2005 - 02:49
...or if you call Microsoft and explain your problem and mention the KB number you'll have a chance at obtaining the patch mentioned in the article

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