With Microsoft having apparently decided to delay shipping a critical update for the Flash Player code in Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) till the scheduled October 26 release of Windows 8 to general public, ZDNet’s Ed Bott has cautioned the Windows 8 RTM users against critical vulnerabilities in IE10’s embedded Flash component.

Noting that the embedded Flash component of the IE10 suffers from several critical vulnerabilities that give the hackers to crash affected systems and take control of them, Bott has hinted that Windows RTM users face a notably high risk of being targeted by the hackers’ in-the-wild exploits aimed at the flaws in the Flash component of the browser.

Despite the fact that these exploits are neither new or are they impossible to avert, Bott has elaborated that Microsoft's Chrome-like IE10-Flash integration prevents the users from a manual installation of the updated Flash versions.

As such, it is essential that Microsoft first integrates the updates from Adobe into the IE10’s update packages, and then makes them available to the general public.

However, with Microsoft already known for its languid response to critical security updates, the Windows RTM users need to be careful till the General Availability (GA) of Windows 8, as Microsoft has apparently told ZDNet that it will issue an update only after the forthcoming operating system’s "GA timeframe" – that is, its expected October 26 release date!