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XP Service Pack 3 Delayed
News While Windows Vista is nearing completion, Microsoft has delayed the next service pack update for its predecessor, Windows XP. This week, Microsoft updated its lifecycle Web site to note that the introduction of Service Pack 3 — the next XP update...
[October 20, 2006, 10:10]
Windows 2000 Bug Fixes Creep In
News Service Pack 2 could help revitalize Windows 2000 sales as Microsoft enters its fiscal year 2002 at the beginning of July. Microsoft has quietly posted a second collection of Windows 2000 bug fixes, indicating the official release of an update...
[May 14, 2001, 9:26]
Microsoft Puts Back First 64-bit Windows
News The long-awaited security update to Windows XP -- Service Pack 2 -- has taken longer than expected and is now set to ship in August. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has delayed an update to its Windows Server software as well as the first version...
[July 28, 2004, 8:45]
Update Windows Today - Before It Gets Blasted
News Companies and home users should use Microsoft's Windows Update service immediately, before it comes under attack from systems infected with the MSBlast worm this Saturday say security experts. The attack is unlike any seen before and Microsoft...
[August 12, 2003, 14:24]
SQL Server Gets Service Pack 2
News Microsoft has released a second free service pack for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. Microsoft also said it has submitted SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 to the German government to be certified under the Common Criteria security...
[February 21, 2007, 8:21]
SP2 Trickles Down To Home PCs
News Placing SP2 to the Windows Update service is the final step in Microsoft's introduction of the security patch. The first computer owners to get Windows XP Service Pack 2 began receiving it on Wednesday night, Microsoft said.
[August 20, 2004, 8:25]
Longer Wait For XP Update?
News The company had planned to wrap up development this week on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but a Microsoft representative said on Wednesday that the software giant had decided that more work was needed on the update before if could be released to...
[August 5, 2004, 8:25]
Windows 2000 SP4 Arrives - But May Need Patching
News Microsoft has officially released the final version of Service Pack 4 (SP4), the long-awaited update to its Windows 2000 operating system. Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that it has changed the terms of its Windows 2000 licensing agreement to give...
[June 27, 2003, 10:35]
Beta XP Update Ready For Download
News The beta version of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, issued late on Wednesday, is available now for download through BetaPlace, Microsoft's site for registered beta testers. Microsoft has released a test version of the second major update to its...
[December 19, 2003, 9:15]
Microsoft: No SP5 For Windows 2000
News Microsoft has decided to make its final update to Windows 2000 largely a collection of previously released fixes rather than an all-new service pack. Because Microsoft believes the Update Rollup will meet the needs of customers better than a new...
[November 30, 2004, 7:45]
Microsoft Accelerates Windows Security Update
News A Microsoft executive has said the company will launch Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in December, months earlier than the company forecast on its Service Pack roadmap. At the Citrix iForum in Florida on Tuesday, Microsoft's corporate vice president...
[October 15, 2003, 13:35]
Microsoft Gears Up For Worm's Blast
News Microsoft hopes to be ready when hundreds of thousands of computers infected with the MSBlast worm start pelting its Windows Update service with data requests at midnight on Friday. Lloyd Taylor, the vice president of technology and operations...
[August 14, 2003, 8:40]
'Critical' Microsoft Patch May Crash IE
News Dunn called Microsoft's product support service, which recommended disabling the use of HTTP 1.1 in IE's advanced settings menu. Microsoft has identified an issue with the security update MS06-042," the company said in a statement Tuesday.
[August 16, 2006, 9:05]
SP2 To Be Forced Out
News Microsoft is alerting customers that it will soon start delivering Windows XP Service Pack 2 to all customers using Automatic Update, whether they want it or not. In response to requests from businesses, Microsoft last year released a tool that...
[February 28, 2005, 8:50]
Windows Server Gets An Update
News The company said that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 is currently available for download via Microsoft's site and will soon start showing up on new servers. The release to manufacturing of Service Pack 1 is also a milestone for Microsoft...
[March 31, 2005, 9:00]
OneCare Beta Gets An Upgrade
News Microsoft has not announced pricing for OneCare but has said the final package will be offered as a subscription service. As Microsoft prepares to let the general public test-drive its OneCare Live security subscription service, the company is...
[October 27, 2005, 9:35]
Next XP Release Slips Back
News Microsoft has shifted a significant number of its Windows staff to the service pack release, in a move that has also pushed back the company's timeframe for launching Longhorn, which is the next major update to Windows.
[April 29, 2004, 8:35]
Microsoft: Pirate Software Will Not Be Supported
News Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), slated for release by June, boasts major security improvements and is viewed by industry watchers as a milestone in the company's Trustworthy Computing push.
[May 11, 2004, 13:35]
Microsoft Delivers New Patching Tools
News After several delays, Microsoft has delivered an overhaul of its corporate patching tool and the promised successor to its Windows Update service Microsoft has blamed the delays in part on work it had to do on Windows XP Service Pack 2, a mammoth...
[June 8, 2005, 9:15]
Windows HTML Flaw Persists
News The Bucharest-based security service provider said that a critical patch issued by Microsoft in its MS05-001 bulletin earlier this month fails to resolve all of the security issues surrounding the HTML Help ActiveX control in Windows.
[January 25, 2005, 8:10]
