What To Do When Windows Update Won't Update
News Microsoft plans to roll this patch into Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000 and Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, so even if you don't apply this patch right away, you'll be covered when those service packs ship.
[May 12, 2003, 11:17]
XP Update Released, But PC Makers Wait
News Microsoft on Monday issued the first update, or service pack, for the Windows XP operating system. Windows XP's automatic update feature is another factor dampening the rush of computer manufacturers to offer the service pack.
[September 9, 2002, 13:52]
Windows XP Service Pack 2 review
Reviews In order to get our hands on Windows XP Service Pack 2's final code, we downloaded the whopping 266MB network installation package for all of our test machines as soon as it was available at Microsoft's Download Center.
[August 12, 2004, 9:25]
Analysts: Windows Server 2008 Will Please Users
News Regarding uptake, Illsley said companies will want to see customer case studies and may wait for problems to be ironed out by the first service pack before deciding to take it up. Mike Davis, senior analyst at Ovum, said Windows Server 2008 doesn't...
[February 27, 2008, 7:41]
Questions Raised About Win 2000 File System
News Users with NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 or higher don't receive any warning when running Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 in a dual-boot configuration, Navas notes. For customers migrating from previous versions of NT to Windows 2000, the file system override may...
[November 25, 1999, 12:08]
Security 'slows Down' Microsoft Schedule
News Along with providing patches and security enhancements with Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft has said it is exploring ways of further updating both PC and server versions of Windows XP prior to the arrival of Longhorn, which analysts say may...
[March 17, 2004, 7:35]
Microsoft Exposes Serious IE Vulnerability
News Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (with The X variant has even made Symantec's threat list, scoring a 3 out of 5 for its risk rating — the first such threat level I've seen in quite a while.
[November 29, 2005, 16:45]
Comdex 2001: Microsoft Preps Messaging For Business
News Last month, arch rival Sun Microsystems announced plans to develop a new instant messaging product called iPlanet Instant Collaboration Pack that aims at corporate customers. Krossa credited file-swapping service Napster for reinvigorating...
[November 13, 2001, 10:11]
Businesses Have 'no Appetite For Vista'
News But Silver predicts uptake will accelerate in 2008, with increased planning and testing and the arrival of the first service pack (SP1) fuelling demand. Mike Silver, research vice president at Gartner, told silicon.com: "From what we've seen so far...
[November 29, 2007, 7:57]
Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update
News Servicing stack update KB937287, released last week, contained updates to Windows Vista installation software, and was billed as being "necessary to successfully install and to remove Windows Vista SP1 [Service Pack 1] on all versions of Windows...
[February 20, 2008, 15:24]
Windows Vista SP2 Beta Due This Week
News Because we've adopted a single serviceability model, these improvements are integrated into a single service pack covering both Windows Vista (client) and Windows Server 2008 (server) versions," Windows executive Mike Nash said in a blog.
[October 27, 2008, 12:43]
XP Uptake 'too Slow' - Microsoft
News Johnson and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer expressed hopes that Windows XP Service Pack 2, a security-focused update set to ship in a few months, will persuade more businesses to make the switch.
[April 13, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Makes Linux Concessions
News Also, he said, the company will step up support for running Linux-based virtual machines in a service pack update to its Virtual Server product later this year. Ballmer said on Wednesday that Microsoft has listened to customers who've demanded...
[April 21, 2005, 8:55]
Asia: Public Enemy Number One For Spam
News However Cluley admitted that Microsoft has made some big differences with XP Service Pack 2, which has made it harder for hackers to break into Windows systems because a rudimentary firewall and automatic updates are enabled by default.
[April 20, 2006, 17:55]
BTopenworld Drops Broadband Activation Charge
News We are in negotiation on the price point for our modem pack," a Freeserve spokeswoman told ZDNet UK News on Wednesday. BTopenworld has become the latest Internet Service Provider (ISP) to react to BT Wholesale's price cuts.
[February 27, 2002, 12:47]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment The "virgin" install I'm talking about, a SP1 with SP2 slip-stream, didn't have all the downloaded and prior versions of OS files in it obtained through the on-line patches UNTIL I downloaded the SP2+ 99 patches AND then let it update via Windows...
[June 18, 2008, 9:25]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment What I've never attempted was an online istallation of SP3 from the MS udate site which as this would have meant that files were only selectively installed. Contrary to so many of the comments on ZDNet and elsewhere, I have installed XP SP3...
[June 17, 2008, 15:19]
