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Microsoft re-releases botched Windows 2000 update

Microsoft has re-released a buggy update that didn't properly protect some of its Windows 2000 users from a security flaw.
Attackers exploit critical PowerPoint vulnerability

For the second time in five weeks, Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers were exploiting a critical unpatched bug in its popular Office application suite.
Microsoft patches Windows DNS, kernel flaws

Microsoft has released software patches fixing a handful of critical bugs in the Windows kernel, as well as flaws in the Windows Directory Name System and SChannel security software.
Microsoft patches IE8 bugs in Windows 7

Microsoft has updated Windows 7 beta to fix an unknown number of reliability bugs in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), but the company stopped short of saying that the browser now matches the release candidate it has already delivered to users of Windows XP and Vista.
Microsoft releases monthly security updates

Microsoft released software security patches Tuesday, fixing some nasty browser and mail server flaws as well as a bug in SQL Server that was publicly disclosed in December.

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