Record Patch Tuesday yields critical Windows, IE fixes

Microsoft issued a record number of monthly patches on Tuesday, including fixes for eight critical holes affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, and other programs that could be exploited to take control of a computer.

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Microsoft to issue record number of patches

(Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft will issue 14 security bulletins on Tuesday to plug 34 holes, including eight that are critical, in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SQL and Silverlight, the company said on Thursday. “This will be the most bulletins we have ever released in a month; we have released 13 bulletins on a couple of occasions,” Angela Gunn, security response communications manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post

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Peer into Firefox’s future in latest beta

Mozilla released the first beta for Firefox 4 on Tuesday, introducing a new interface design to a wider Windows audience, support for multiple technologies that aim to be essential to Web browsing in the future, and a plan for updates far more aggressive than those of the past. Available for Windows , Mac , and Linux machines, Firefox 4 beta 1 is Mozilla’s first official peek into the future of the world’s second most popular browser

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Chrome edges Opera 10.5 on speed test

p Opera, bumped down to fifth place in browser usage after Google Chrome burst on the scene, promised a super-fast JavaScript engine as part of its bid to stay relevant.

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