While we don’t have a firm estimate on when we’ll complete our development and testing of updates for this issue, we have teams around the world working on it twenty-four hours a day, and hope to have updates no later than May 8, 2007 for the May monthly bulletin release.
However, this is a developing situation and we are constantly evaluating the situation and the status of our development and testing of updates. For this issue, our teams are working on developing and testing 133 separate updates: one in every language for every currently supported version of Windows servers. Each of these has to be tested to ensure they effectively protect against the vulnerability. Because DNS is a critical part of the networking infrastructure, they also have to be tested to ensure that changes introduced by the updates don’t pose a greater risk than the security issue we’re addressing.
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Could someone explain to me why they have to create 133 separate updates? I understand for each language of Windows, there is a different patch...but my question is why? It has been this way for a very long time and perhaps I am just missing something.
In a perfect world, shouldn't the language localization happen at the UI level and not the underlying processing code level?
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