AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.js…1&date;=20050311
March 11, 2005
" The U.S. government will get a head start on fixing security holes in Windows and other software under an arrangement with Microsoft Corp. that isn't available to most other customers, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Under the plan, to take effect later this year, Microsoft will give the Air Force versions of the software updates it regularly issues to "patch" serious security vulnerabilities as many as 30 days before the fixes are generally available to other customers. The Department of Homeland Security will give advance notice of the new vulnerabilities to other government agencies and distribute the patches to them, after they have been tested by the Air Force, say officials at Microsoft and the White House's Office of Management and Budget…"
(Hmmm…"Uncle Sam" gets to be the guinea pig instead of us…)
- http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.js…1&date;=20050311
March 11, 2005
" The U.S. government will get a head start on fixing security holes in Windows and other software under an arrangement with Microsoft Corp. that isn't available to most other customers, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Under the plan, to take effect later this year, Microsoft will give the Air Force versions of the software updates it regularly issues to "patch" serious security vulnerabilities as many as 30 days before the fixes are generally available to other customers. The Department of Homeland Security will give advance notice of the new vulnerabilities to other government agencies and distribute the patches to them, after they have been tested by the Air Force, say officials at Microsoft and the White House's Office of Management and Budget…"
(Hmmm…"Uncle Sam" gets to be the guinea pig instead of us…)