Here's the reality, for the next couple of years the Mac OS will experience increasing security threats and mark my words, the company will have to seek outside expertise in the form of a head of security communications in the next 12 months.

I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you' and I haven't worked (at Microsoft) in two years. Even to this day people who don't know I left Microsoft still come after me.

The maximum total severity rating for this month is Critical, so please update systems as soon as possible when the bulletin is available this coming Tuesday.

Among the critical updates, customers who run older versions of the operating system such as Windows 2000 should prioritize MS05-051 for deployment on those systems.

The huge responsibility we have is that we have to answer to our customers, and our customers represent potentially hundreds of millions of different configurations.

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In general, many of these bulletins have a lower impact in terms of severity and are much more difficult to exploit on newer operating systems such as Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

The key thing is really that we want to make people understand the risk with these flaws and that they enable automatic updates.

It only affected Windows 2000. So far it has shown a very limited impact -- we're not seeing any widespread impact to the Internet, but we remain vigilant.

There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.