Today, Microsoft announced that it would deliver a record 14 security updates in the subsequent week, to patch a record 34 susceptibilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Silverlight and Office.

However, users of Windows XP Service Pack 2 will not be given all the fixes.

Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of security risk provider, Qualys said that this was a Massive Patch of Tuesday.

This was a huge update and more significant than that was the involvement of all, in the whole process.

Out of the 14 updates, 8 had been tagged with Microsoft’s ‘critical label’, which is a threat of the highest level, as mentioned in its four step scoring system.

Microsoft has dubbed the 14 updates as ‘bulletins’ a record, that has gone beyond the counts seen both in February of this year and October 2009.

As per Microsoft’s advance notification given on a monthly basis, the firm will deliver 10 updates only for Windows, where half of those are critical, while the other five that have been tagged as important.

All supported editions of Windows have been affected with multiple updates, as said by Microsoft, with Windows XP Service Pack 3 being the oldest versions of all five Windows, but under the critical updates.