Advance notification of November 2013 Patch Tuesday

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Tuesday, November 12 will see a modest batch of updates from Microsoft. There will be eight bulletins in total, with five Critical updates addressing vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer, and three Important updates addressing vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.

The recently-discovered vulnerability in Office running on Vista will not get a patch on November 12, but Microsoft is working on it and will release it as soon as it’s ready.

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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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