Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and several server and development products, but as it hinted last week, did not come up with a fix for the IE (Internet Explorer) bug that cyber criminals have been exploiting for at least a month. Today was also a spring tide of sorts for patching, as Microsoft's updates were just some that vendors pushed to customers. Adobe also issued updates for Flash Player, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Acrobat; Google shipped a new version of Chrome; and Mozilla delivered the next iteration of Firefox.