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Security experts warn users of Internet Explorer 6, and more and more sites have stopped supporting it. But in a place you are fighting to keep it – in the British government. The government in Britain refuses to upgrade departmental computers because it “would be too expensive.”

Over 6000 Britons have signed a petition to get the government to replace the outdated version, as both are vulnerable to attacks and requires a site developer to customize their pages to support the reader.

The people behind the petition want the government to at least advise their employees to download the alternative browser to surf the outside respondents’ own systems, but the government maintains IE6.

“Nothing guarantees that a change from the patched version of IE6 to a different browser is an extra safety”, says the government in a statement.

On Tuesday, Microsoft will release a monster update that fills a whole 34 bugs in several of their programs.
Microsoft have announced that they will release a record updated, which consists of a total of 14 individual updates for Windows, IE, Office, and Silverlight.

The update fills a total of 34 bugs including eight that have been classified as critical and sex as important, the second highest classification. Users of Windows XP SP2 will only have access to some of the updates then support for that version has been discontinued.

Wolfgang Kandek the security company Qualsys. says:
- I would call it a massive patch on Tuesday. There is a huge update and it is important that all interested parties. I’m actually a bit surprised how big it really is,
- This is great, not only because of the number of incremental updates, but due to scale and that it affects everybody, “says Wolfgang Kandek.

Next week’s update beats Microsoft’s previous record updates in October last year and February. All versions of  Windows are affected, including Windows 7, which may be a full ten updates.

Furter Wolfgang Kandek says:
- We had expected a big update, but my concern is for those users still running Windows XP SP2. Any problems that clog up the Windows XP SP3 is safe even in SP2, but they will not be remedied.

Everybody write about it, so do I, but I honestley dont know why, this is not the first time, and will not be the last time, Microsoft, need to put out updates to recover their own misstakes………..

Ten things that fixes a total of 34 deficiencies in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. Three of those ranked as “critical” and the other seven considered “important.” All vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious people who are out to take control of a computer. At least two of the ten demands that you restart your computer. Deficiencies exist in Windows 2000, Windows XP (32 and 64 bit), Windows Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2. All versions of Office that  currently provides support are include one or more deficiencies.

Google has stopped using Windows.
A security question, according to their press release

Google’s 10 000 employees worldwide will have their Windows computers being replaced by Linux or Mac computers.

The reason is the concern about safety and more hacker attacks that the company suffered from China.
- We do not run Windows anymore. It is a safety issue, “said an employee of Google to the newspaper.

Google has not commented on its policy, but as recently as January, employees use Windows on their laptops, but not on the desktop. Now require approval from the company’s IT manager to install Windows.
One reason is that Windows is known to be more easily attacked by viruses.
But another reason could be that the company want more people to use their own forthcoming operating system, OS Chrome.

I personally have never understood people who have not left hotmail in favor of Gmail.

Hotmail launched this week their “new” e-mail client …… And, now they beginning to reach the same standard like Gmail, they proudly announces “news” that already exists in Gmail for a long time back.
I have always recommended people to move to Gmail but keep their Hotmail account and check it periodically, and to use Messenger, which, although must admit is much better than Google’s Gtalk, even if I dont use any of them.
But the Gmails Email, Calendar and Office are much better, and Gmail’s spam filters, which probably should be seen today as the best spam filter of all email clients.

I should perhaps be added that this is my personal views