This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for March 2012. With the release of the security bulletins for March 2012, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued March 8, 2012. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.
Category: Tech News
Yet Another Major Cloud Outage
Today Microsoft has joined the list of Cloud service providers that have had a major Could service outage: “Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide. A customer described the problem to The Register as an …
Latest version of Internet Explorer to be pushed to all via Windows Update
Microsoft announced that in January they will begin to push out the latest version of Internet Explorer to all windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 computers automatically via Windows update. Up to this point Internet Explorer has been an optional update. Citing security benefits as the primary reason for the change in status on Windows …