Week in Microsoft: IE6 patched, but you should just ditch it

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Let’s look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:

After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP: Microsoft is recommending that Windows XP and IE6 users upgrade both their browser and operating system, if only for the security improvements.

Microsoft patches “Google hack” flaw in Internet Explorer: Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security patch to address a remote code execution hole in Internet Explorer that was used in the recent Chinese attacks disclosed by Google.