Microsoft released their advance notification for April 2011 patch Tuesday. Microsoft will release 17 bulletins, 9 of them rated Critical and 7 rated Important, addressing issues in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, Office, .NET Framework and GDI+ on April 12, 2011 addressing 64 vulnerabilities.

Affected Products:

  • All Supported Operating Systems.
  • Office XP, 2003, 2007
  • Excel XP, 2003, 2007, 2010
  • PowerPoint XP, 2003, 2007, 2010
  • Excel Viewer
  • PowerPoint Viewer, 2007
  • Office Compatibility Pack 2007
  • Office PowerPoint Web App
  • Visual Studio .NET 2003
  • Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010
  • Visual C++ 2005, 2008, 2010

Once the bulletins are released, the Patch Assessment team at Desktop Central will test all the patches pertaining to these bulletins and update their central patch database at the earliest.