Microsoft updates for May 2015

It’s the second Tuesday of the month, so Microsoft is pushing out another set of updates. This month there are thirteen updates, addressing about 50 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET, Office, and Silverlight. Three are flagged as Critical.

As always with security updates affecting Windows, you should install these as soon as possible.

Two of the updates (MS15-044 and MS15-049) affect Silverlight. Once you install these updates, your version of Silverlight should be 5.1.40416.0, which you can confirm on the Get Silverlight page. Installing from that page will also update Silverlight to version 5.1.40416.0. That’s also the only way you can get the latest version if you’re using Windows XP.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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