Microsoft Corp has issued one of its most crucial security fixes this Tuesday, these includes major repairs for its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser for recently pointed out mistakes which indicated that both software’s are vulnerable enough to allow hackers take control of a PC.
Microsoft made an announcement on Tuesday regarding the upgrade of both the new patches which were referred to as the highest priority updates and were meant to be ‘immediately deployed’ in order to protect wide range of users from any potential criminal attacks on Windows and Internet Explorer. The world's largest software maker claimed that the these updates also cover up the required other less serious security weaknesses in Windows, along with security problems in its widely used Office software for PCs and Microsoft Exchange email software as well.
Summarizing, Microsoft has overall released 17 security patches to address problems in its 40 different products. The recent constant patching of PCs has proved to be very time consuming for average corporate user, who needs to test the fixes before they deploy them to make sure they do not cause machines to crash because of compatibility problems with existing software.
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