In a white paper released late on Wednesday, the software giant identified four areas where it plans to make improvements over the next 12 months: in patch quality, in delivering information to its customers, in broadening the number of...
Its patch management security push - including company-wide patch management features turning up in Microsoft's newly launched Systems Management Server, patch management guidance being distributed on its website and the streamlining of the number...
SMS is aimed at allowing large companies to distribute software updates and patches automatically to PCs over corporate networks. Microsoft on Tuesday said it released an updated test version of one of its main management software products.
Service packs typically bring together bug fixes and patches previously introduced in piecemeal fashion. But with Longhorn not due to hit the market until 2006, the company has to rely on Windows XP service packs to address immediate security issues.
In January, an outside patch was created for a vulnerability in the way Windows renders Windows Meta File images, and in March, two security companies issued patches for a bug related to how IE handled certain tags in web pages.
Call the Round-Up a stuffy, old traditionalist but patches and service packs are meant to fix problems not cause new ones. Microsoft issued guidance to OEMs advising them to only load Windows XP images onto like hardware in 2004.
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