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Microsoft Releases Windows Update Blocker
News Microsoft has released a toolkit to let businesses block service pack updates for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. The toolkit, available from Microsoft's download site, will block service packs for limited periods of time.
[December 10, 2007, 14:39]
Microsoft Prepares To Kill Windows Messenger
News Spam attacks and security vulnerabilities will prompt Microsoft to turn off its troublesome Windows Messenger service in the next Windows XP update, a company representative said on Tuesday. Microsoft also plans in Service Pack 2 to turn on the...
[October 29, 2003, 7:30]
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]
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]
Patch Demand Briefly Downs Windows Update
News The crush of millions of Windows users trying to patch their computers overwhelmed Microsoft's update service for several hours after new security fixes were made available, the software giant acknowledged on Wednesday.
[April 15, 2004, 8:50]
XP Makeover Highlights Antitrust Tweaks
News Microsoft also plans to introduce an update to Windows Messenger with the release of Service Pack 1. In a related move, Microsoft is also simultaneously putting the finishing touches on Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, which is in final beta testing...
[May 24, 2002, 8:44]
XP Update Released, But PC Makers Wait
News Microsoft on Monday issued the first update, or service pack, for the Windows XP operating system. Many computer manufacturers started shipping Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 on new PCs less than a month after Microsoft released the update.
[September 9, 2002, 13:52]
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]
Microsoft Pulls Java From Windows
News Microsoft on Monday released an updated version of Windows XP Service Pack 1 without the company's version of Java, complying with a court order that was stayed just hours later. Microsoft released Service Pack 1, the first major collection of...
[February 4, 2003, 10:52]
XP Service Pack 1 At Testing Stage
News The service pack will introduce four options for managing, customising or removing Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger, Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine, and competing so-called middleware...
[June 6, 2002, 14:09]
Will Update Boost Windows 2000 Sales?
News Microsoft reached Monday what many had considered the Windows 2000 Holy Grail: the release of Service Pack 1, the first full-fledged update to the operating system Microsoft hopes to release two to three Windows service packs per year, Ewel said.
[August 1, 2000, 9:15]
Corporates Allowed To Block SP2
News We're encouraging our organisational customers -- government, education, corporations -- to start testing and to deploy the service pack as quickly as possible," said Barry Goffe, a group manager in Microsoft's Windows client unit.
[August 12, 2004, 8:25]
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 Goes Dynamic With Systems Management Tool
News Microsoft also announced systems management-related product updates, including the first public test release of an automatic Windows update service. Also at the IT Forum, Microsoft said that it has started a wide-scale beta testing programme for...
[November 16, 2004, 15:45]
Microsoft Reveals How To Avoid Forced IE7 Upgrade
News Users of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — Microsoft's software-update service for businesses — who are currently using Internet Explorer (IE) 6 will be automatically upgraded to IE7 on that date, Microsoft announced on its manageability...
[January 22, 2008, 13:23]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
News Peer-to-peer advocacy group Downhill Battle has made a copy of Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 available at a site called SP2torrent.com through the BitTorrent file-sharing system. Of course, that gets balanced against, 'How do I make sure...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
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]
Security Flaws Emerge In Windows Update
News Microsoft would not discuss whether it had received reports of new vulnerabilities in Windows XP Service Pack 2 but did say that the company's researchers had investigated the Heise issues and found them wanting.
[August 19, 2004, 9:30]
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]
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]
