Windows Sysadmins take note ! Another round of patches has come up.

On Tuesday, Microsoft Corporation released 12 security fixes for its Windows operating system and Office business software. In its monthly security bulletin, Microsoft also said two of the fixes are for vulnerabilities in some versions of its Office software that carry the highest “critical” rating. All of the patches are to fix weaknesses that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a person’s computer.

12 security fixes from Microsoft Corporation for Windows users source

IEblog has nnounced the release of the Beta 2 version of IE7 for Windows XP SP2:

This evening we released IE7 Beta 2 at http://www.microsoft.com/ie. This release is not the preview or the update to the preview, but the real Beta 2 of IE7 for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Simply: please try it.

We acted on a lot of the feedback and bug reports from the previous public releases. In particular, I feel good about changes we made based on reports from web developers around some CSS behaviors, application compatibility feedback, reliability data (yes, we do analyze the information that comes when you click “Send Error Report”), and user experience feedback. People on the team will post additional details about changes over the next few days.

You can now download a Beta 2 “preview” of IE7 (Internet Explorer), now renamed Windows Internet Explorer.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

It’s a bit of a Firefox lookalike, and contains many new features, not least an RSS aggregator and tabbed browsing.

On my version, which took over IE6, the PageRank bar doesn’t seem to work, and Bloglines also won’t come up in the browser. Lots of things don’t work with it.

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