Microsoft will make the free update available via download and via CD, but it is recommending that customers turn on Windows' automatic upgrade feature and get the update that way. The update should be distributed to approximately 100 million PCs...
In addition to making the software available via automatic update, Microsoft will allow information-technology managers to download an upgrade that companies can use to update their machines. Last week, German company Heise Security announced that...
Microsoft will speed up Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) distribution to meet its self-imposed goals, having distributed just one-fifth of its planned installations a month after launch. That projection didn't include installations of the upgrade...
The firm said most installations had happened via automatic updates and Windows updates. Microsoft has reinforced its prediction that it will distribute 100 million copies of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP by the end of October.
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...
An emailed statement from Microsoft said: "On April 12th, a tool blocking the download of Windows XP SP2 via Automatic Updates will expire and SP2 will automatically be downloaded. Microsoft is today disabling its own software tool that prevented...
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