Microsoft has released 17 security bulletins, making December 2010's Patch Tuesday one of the biggest ever. Two of the bulletins address vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. Unusually, Microsoft has given advance notice of a security improvement for Office 2003 and 2007 that won't be available until next year.
2010 is going out with a bang as far as Microsoft security patches are concerned. December's Patch Tuesday will see a whopping 17 updates addressing 40 vulnerabilities.
An update for a security problem disclosed last month in Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 has finally been released. But there's no sign yet of the corresponding update for Office 2004.
A new version of the well-regarded Solver add-on for Excel has arrived to support Microsoft Office 2011.
We're nearly a week into the month, so it's time to find out what Patch Tuesday will bring. Unusually, Microsoft's listing no updates for any version of Windows, but there is an important patch for the recently released Office 2011 for Mac.
The latest version of Microsoft Office, tuned for Apple Macintosh, goes on sale in Australia tomorrow.
Presenting as cut down, online versions of the Office 2010 apps Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote, Australian Hotmail users finally get full access to Microsoft's web apps, intensifying competition between online office suites and hopefully hastening the time until Google launches its own updated Google Docs response.
August's Patch Tuesday has seen the delivery of 14 security bulletins from Microsoft. More than half are rated critical, and a total of 34 vulnerabilities are addressed.
Microsoft has provided its customary advance notice of security bulletins, and it looks like August's Patch Tuesday is going to be a big one with a record 14 bulletins.
Microsoft has revealed Office 2011 pricing ahead of a late October release.
Microsoft has joined the list of companies reporting record quarterly revenues.
As foreshadowed, Microsoft released four security bulletins overnight. One affects Windows 7 and three are rated critical.
Next Tuesday will see the publication of four security bulletins from Microsoft, three of them rated critical.
Elcom's CommunityManager.NET web content management system now integrates with Microsoft Office, SharePoint and HP TRIM.
The distributor of an application that adds online and collaboration capabilities to older versions of Microsoft Office claims that Microsoft's refusal to offer an upgrade path to Office 2010 will backfire on the company.
Microsoft will patch critical vulnerabilities in Windows and Office this month, but a fix for the SharePoint cross-site scripting vulnerability isn't ready yet.
Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle update for Producer 2003, an accessory program for PowerPoint.
The document comparison and revision software TextFlow, until now only available as a Box.net application, has now shown up on the desktop.
A beta of the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac has shown up on torrent sites, and some bloggers have posted early reviews and screen shots.
More than 40 million people around the world are using Microsoft Online Services, the company has claimed.
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