System Maintenance – May 13 and 14th 2008 between 18:00 – 22:00 EDT

Microsoft released multiple security and software updates today, Tuesday May 13, and recommended that customers install these updates immediately. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. Some of these updates require a server restart.

The Operations team will apply the updates on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings between 18:00 and 22:00 EDT to servers. There will be intermittent outages during these periods because of the required server reboot.

If you have a Windows PC at home, we recommend that you visit the Microsoft Update website at http://update.microsoft.com/ and apply all relevant patches to your computer. For more information about current hotfixes, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx .

Our apologies for any inconvenience caused by this maintenance.