Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2008

With four new security bulletins scheduled for March 11, 2008, the anticipated security updates for March will be much lighter than they were in February. However, Windows Vista users should keep in mind the schedule for SP1 and check that all the prerequisites are installed.

• In mid-March Windows Vista SP1 to (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) will be released to Windows update and to the download center on microsoft.com.

• In mid-April, Windows Vista SP1 will be released to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically.

• April, the remaining languages to RTM.

Three of the scheduled updates for this March are for remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The fourth is also remote code execution but for Microsoft Office Web Components.