Microsoft has released several updates for quite a few of its major pieces of software including Microsoft Excel, Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Host Integration Server. This is part of its monthly Patch Tuesday releases which now includes more technical details to give developers more time to fix problems before any public announcements. There is also a new ‘exploitability index’ to assist system administrators in prioritising the patches they roll out. The new ‘exploitability index’ has three tiers, 1 means that the patch is a critical update, 2 is of moderate concern and 3 is of least concern.

All of the updates can be downloaded through Windows Update.

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