It's not just the upcoming Microsoft Black Tuesday with 7 critical and 5 important patches, but other popular software companies released critical security patches.
How fast are users patching? It might not be a representative sample but Secunia features a free software inspector which they used to gather statistics:
Currently, the Secunia PSI has been installed on 282,726 computers.
Looking at how many computers that have one or more of the above applications installed we get 229,023 out of 282,726 computers, or:"81.01% of all computers connected to the Internet needs to apply at least one security update to secure their computer, until updated, users risk falling victim of a hacker by simply: Visiting a website, opening a PDF file, viewing a movie, etc. - and this is just over a period of 24 hours"
If you will excuse me, I have some urgent patching to do.
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