Microsoft plans to release <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5486060.html?tag=zdnn.alert">patches for five Windows flaws.</A> The company posted the information on its TechNet site as part of a new program that gives the general public advance notification of security bulletins. The program was announced in November, the same month the program debuted with a notification of a spoofing flaw in advance of the actual patch.