Weekly briefing
Week 51 · 20 Dec – 26 Dec 2010 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
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Patch Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
How this list is chosen
Changes from 20 Dec 2010 – 26 Dec 2010 UTC and dates due up to 25 Jan 2011. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.
Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 7 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. 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.