Microsoft has issued its advance notification of security bulletins that the company intends to release during patch Tuesday, on July 8. It is made up of four important-rated fixes, two of which target Vista and XP/2000/2003 respectively, one the Microsoft SQL Server and one Microsoft Exchange Server.

The most expected of the four patches is the one affecting Windows Vista and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, as well as Windows Server 2008. The code injection flaw that it fixes enables remote code execution. This is the common way of attack for malware. Apparently, the flaw was not tagged as critical because it doesn't work without the user first taking some extra actions or adding special software or drivers.

The other Windows patch targets Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and enables spoofing.

Recently, Microsoft's traditional ally Intel has apparently decided that it would not upgrade to Vista for its about 80,000 employees. The company said that it has made the decision based on the feedback it got from its IT department, which said that it saw no reason to make the upgrade.

Even though this is the case for most of the company, it seems that there are certain departments where Vista might be adopted eventually. Regardless of the fact that Vista is not convincing people, Microsoft is still making some nice profit out of it thanks to the fact that people get it together with their new computers, even if a good portion of them would like an XP instead.