Weekly briefing
Week 11 · 15 Mar – 21 Mar 2010 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Coming up1
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Patch Tuesday, 13 April 2010
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
How this list is chosen
Changes from 15 Mar 2010 – 21 Mar 2010 UTC and dates due up to 20 Apr 2010. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.
Ranked by kind: Microsoft's out-of-band releases and security response notices, then exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 7 dates plus every lifecycle end in the window, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. A notice's action date is listed on its own unless it dates the record leading that day. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.
The briefing is selective. Browse every dated change, review upcoming dates or check the period's coverage.