June 5, 2008 12:47 PM PDT

Microsoft to release seven bulletins on Tuesday

Microsoft is planning seven security bulletins for its Patch Tuesday this month, the company announced Thursday.

Three of the bulletins are deemed critical by Microsoft, and cover Bluetooth, Internet Explorer, and DirectX. The Internet Explorer bulletin is expected to be cumulative and might include some remediation for the Safari for Windows vulnerability disclosed last month by Nitesh Dhanjani.

Three of the bulletins are termed important, and cover WINS, Active Directory, and PGM. One of the bulletins is considered moderate and covers kill bits.

The bulletins will be released on Tuesday.

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by Dalkorian June 5, 2008 4:09 PM PDT
"Security bulletin"? I had to go to M$'s website (which uses the same confusing term) and look over the page to understand what this meant. Other RESPECTABLE OS's call them "updates" or "patches". I guess that term somehow became non-PC for the PC crowd recently - hey, when you're releasing to many "patches" to fix your junk OS, you can fix that by calling them "security bulletins"! How M$ of them.
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