Service Pack 1 for Windows XP, released in May, combined such patches with a handful of tweaks required by the settlement of the government's anti-trust case against the Redmond, Washington-based software giant.
The company said it has released Windows XP Service Pack 2 to manufacturing, following a series of delays. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a statement: "Service Pack 2 is a significant step in delivering on our goal to help customers make...
Among the primary benefits of the free update is the inclusion of security enhancements similar to those added to Windows XP with last year's Service Pack 2. This is really the most comprehensive set of security enhancements we've delivered in a...
Other than security, the new Vista preview release promises enhancements in performance. Microsoft on Monday released another preview version of Windows Vista, adding a number of security features, as well as performance and user interface functions.
Microsoft learned a lesson about this when it pushed out Service Pack 2 for Windows XP via the update function. Schare said: "The justification, of course, is the significant security enhancements in IE 7.
The flaw was discovered after users of IE 6 with Service Pack 1 reported that the browser crashed when certain web pages were viewed. Microsoft has released an updated version of a faulty Internet Explorer patch to fix a serious security flaw...
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